About New Life Magazine.

The editorial in The Keswick Quarterly And Upwey Convention News of November 1935 called for an editor who would start a Christian journal giving news of preachers and workers, evangelists, missions, and missionaries, providing book reviews and devotional aids, and giving outspoken and definite Christian witness.

Meanwhile, in February 1932 Eric Daley, the son of the editor and publisher of The Kerang Times, who had worked on that paper, had come to Melbourne to study at the Melbourne Bible Institute (now Melbourne School of Theology). He discovered his talents were not as a preacher, so he returned to his former job in Kerang. John Knox, with whom he had studied at MBI, was keen to start an eight-page newspaper. So that is what these two young men, both in their 20s did. The first edition of The Edifier was published on 10 June 1938.

In July 1939 the format was changed and it became New Life. It had already been commended for its high standards and support of the evangelical faith. In 1982 Eric Daley was succeeded as editor by the Rev John Coleman but he died only a few years later and Eric again took over the editorship.

The Rev Bob Thomas was appointed editor in 1988, followed by the Rev Ross Prout in 1995 and Mrs Helen Woodall in November 2002. On 30 June 2006 New Life ceased as a weekly newspaper and on 1 July 2006 it began as a fortnightly news magazine under the leadership of a Production Team, Rev Bob Thomas and Drs Clifford and Barbara Wilson.

New Life ceased publication as a printed magazine on 31 December 2010, but reopened as an email and web-based publication on 1 March 2011, again with Rev Bob Thomas as Editor and Dr Clifford Wilson as Associate Editor. Dr Wilson was called Home on 4 April 2012 after faithfully serving beside all of the editors over many years.

New Life now continues to bring news, inspiration, and encouragement. It breaks down the isolation of people who are shut-in or living in remote parts of the world. It continues to uphold the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord in an ever-changing world.

Faith Statement

We believe in the divine, verbal inspiration of the Scriptures as originally given, the consequent inerrancy and infallibility and, as the Word of God, the supreme authority in faith and life.
The Sovereign Triune God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The essential and eternal deity and the real but sinless humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that God in Christ Jesus was miraculously incarnated through the active work of God’s Holy Spirit at His virgin birth through Mary.
We believe in Christ substitutionary, expiatory and propitiatory death on the Cross at Calvary.
That Jesus was resurrected from among the dead in the same body in which He was buried. His ascension and exaltation to the right hand of God, and his high priestly ministry of intercession, and the second coming of the same Jesus in power and great glory.
The total depravity of man through the fall of humanity has sinned, separating us all from God’s love and presence.
We believe in the work of Christ’s Salvation, the effect of regeneration by the sovereign act of the Holy Spirit and the Word, not by works but by Grace through faith; evidenced by a continuing life of holiness.
The everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
We believe in the real spiritual unity in Christ of all redeemed by His precious blood, who constitute the invisible Church which is the body of Christ.
The necessity of maintaining the purity of the visible Church in doctrine and life according to the Word of God.