Where did you go? Baucau, Timor Leste Duration of trip: 2 weeks How many people went? 30 youth and young adults from NSW What were your mission tasks? Our team turned a church building in the region of Baucau into a school (including accommodation for teachers) and ran a vacation Bible school (VBS) program in…
Where did you go? Laos, Xiangkhoang Mission Details: The duration of the trip was 10 days, we went with a small team of 7 people. Four from Melbourne and three from NSW. 1. What did you do/task? We were hosted by Namtipsavan Bilingual School which is a kindergarten, primary school—up to grade 3—and an English…
Last Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of Global Youth Day (GYD), an initiative launched by the Seventh-day Adventist Church on March 13, 2013, ‘with the support of GC Administration, the 13 Division youth directors, MENA Union and the Israel field’. The vision of GYD is to engage and empower Adventist youth to go out and…
Have you ever broken a bone? I have, many times. I remember falling over at school once, with tears in my eyes I walked into the sickbay, clenching my wrist I sobbed “I think I broke my arm”. Luckily, a paramedic was there picking up another student. He inspected my arm and concluded that “It’s…
How many times in the past month or week have you talked to someone you’ve never met? Not just “Hi, how are you”, but actually sat down and spent time with a stranger to get an insight into their life… Being somewhat of a shy person especially when I was younger, I never deliberately or…
I don’t know about you but lately, a lot of people around me are getting engaged. Whether or not it’s normal for Adventists to be engaged in their early twenties, or it’s God telling me to get a move on is irrelevant. However, it did get me thinking about the word: Engage. Definitions, aside from…
Over the weekend it was the World’s Greatest Shave. While we were up at Avondale we were able to witness two beautiful girls participate in the day’s events. We had the privilege to speak to one of the girls, Riverlana Talafua. She had her whole family come out to witness this sentimental and monumental moment with her. It…
So Converge has come and passed again for the 4th year. I have had the absolute privilege and blessing to attend the last 3 years, unfortunately missing the first. It has been so awesome and inspiring to see it grow over the years. The organisers and volunteers that put in the effort to create a…
I finally popped my ‘Road to Bethlehem’ Cherry! Yes, I know, “How could you have never gone to Road to Bethlehem?”. It’s a question I get asked quite a lot during this time. And the honest answer is… “I don’t know”. It was never in the plans but after this week I’m sure to make…
One of the Bible’s distinctive catch-cries is “Don’t be afraid.” Often, it’s the necessary greeting that begins interactions between God and humanity, particularly almost every time an angel appears in a Bible story. For example, “Don’t be afraid” is a recurring motif around the birth of Jesus (see Luke 1:13; 1:30; and 2:10), contradicting the…