Over the last few weeks, SRE (Special Religious Education) lessons have resumed in NSW Primary Schools. In our local area, 19 teachers and helpers will be teaching 32 classes in 6 local schools. Around 550 students will be in classes every week, many from backgrounds with parents who do not
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I have loved camping ever since my first experience in January 1980. Since then I’ve been on more than 100 week long church camps and over 200 church weekends. I’ve written mission manuals on running church camps and been committed to ensuring that the youth ministry at our church has
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Once again we are taking a group of Yr 12 students away for a week at Nelson Bay. This year we have eighteen students joining us from 24th November – 1st December! We stay in a luxury three bedroom townhouses in Nelson Bay. The townhouses come fully equipped and there
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Last weekend 57 students in years 6-8 joined us for our annual FUSE Camp. During the weekend we had a Where’s Wally theme with campers trying to rescue Wally after he had been taken hostage by a team of Fake Wally’s. Dan Clark took us through the opening chapters of
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The parents of today’s high school students are doing it tough when it comes to raising their children in a cyber saturated world. These parents are the last generation to complete their education without the internet. However, they are parenting the first generation who will have completed their education with
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I recently saw the latest Pixar movie “The Incredibles 2” in which the villain hypnotises people and controls their minds through video screens. It was no surprise that the villain’s chosen name was Screenslaver. The team at Pixar is very good at connecting with the real world as they explore
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I’ve read quite a few books with multiple worlds and characters that have identities in each of the different worlds. At certain times and places it’s possible for a character to cross over from one world to another. Sometimes movie franchises do a similar thing with the interconnection of worlds
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This weekend we are taking a group of 25 senior high students to the annual KYCK convention at Katoomba. The theme of the weekend is “Out of This World” and the talks will work through the book of 1 Peter. There are 6 sessions during the course of the weekend
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During this week we have a team of students from Moore College helping us with our “Jesus Is ____.” mission. Here are a few snapshots of what’s been happening in the first few days. The team had a day at Audley with a barbecue, some rowboats and a team building
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Our Evening Church recently spent a weekend away to explore the topic of prayer. Brett Middleton was our guest speaker and he delivered four talks that challenged us to think about what’s going on when we pray. The first talk struck a chord with many of us. We were challenged
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