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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Our year 12 students have now finished their final HSC exams and are preparing to come away for a week of XII Escape at Nelson Bay. This year we have fourteen students coming away from 25th November – 2nd December! We’ll stay in a luxury three bedroom townhouses in Nelson
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In September we had our 6th annual FUSE Camp at the Anglican Youthworks’ Telford campsite in the Royal National Park. This year 44 campers attended from years 6-8 at school. We spent the weekend examining the post resurrection encounters as recorded in the Gospel of John. We were privileged to
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I recently attended the memorial service for a young girl who had been in one of my SRE classes at a local school. She had been diagnosed with a degenerative illness when she was very young and sadly passed away the previous week. The service was full of amazing tributes
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Last Saturday night over 100 supporters from local churches gathered to say thank you to Glenn and Heather Starr for their many years of teaching Special Religious Education at The Jannali High School (and before that Jannali Boys’ High School). Glenn has been a well-loved part of the Jannali community, having
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It’s been four months since our farewell and I’m thankful for the opportunity to provide an update on the ministries I am involved in at both Long Bay Gaol and the Vocational Bible College. I continually stand in awe at how fruitful and exciting gaol chaplaincy is. People see starkly
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There have been some developments with the SRE program at The Jannali High School in recent years and a big change is just about to happen. With the advent of the Department of Education’s 2015 SRE Review we began teaching the revised SRE Think Faith curriculum last year. This curriculum
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Last week we took a group of 18 senior high students to the annual KYCK convention at Katoomba. As usual, we stayed onsite in the camping ground and were thankful to have another good year of excellent weather. The theme of the weekend was “Standing For the King” and the
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This week we had six SRE Easter assemblies in our local public schools. In these assemblies we have all the SRE students from the protestant and Catholic classes gathered together to hear about the message of Easter. There were two different sets of material this year that were each repeated
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Last weekend we had 43 students from years 9-10 come away with us to the Coledale Beach camping ground. This is an annual camp for our THIRST youth group. We stay in tents for two nights right next to the beach. Although the weather was excellent, sadly the beach was
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