Hi everyone! Sometimes I wonder what I might write the following week, then when Thursday comes there’s so much that’s happened in this wonderful community at school that I have to think about what to include! Sometimes we get great surprises like this week when Rod came to visit. He is our former Property Manager who I wrote about a while ago who sadly lost his wife Elizabeth and two sons, James and Matthew to the Victorian bush fires in Marysville. As he and his wife met here he wanted to come back to relive some wonderful memories and shed some tears as part of his grieving. He shared with the students on Thursday morning and it was an awesome testimony of how Jesus has personally walked with him through his “Job” experience without being bitter and instead being filled with the joy of the Lord – truly remarkable.
And on to something completely different! Last Friday the guys discovered the sauna on campus and totally got into putting new life into it. So on Saturday evening the fire was stoked and the steam came pouring out! All the guys enjoyed one of the best experiences of a sauna they have ever had. And tonight, which is our regular ‘Guy’s night’, (where one of them shares on a topic of the day and then we break up into prayer triplets), we are going to hold in the sauna – different for sure and lots of fun! It’ll be the first time that we’ve been so clean as we start our prayer triplets!!!
Last week our principal, Neil, taught on the ‘Life of David’ and the students just loved it. So this week the Bible Studies, which are presented by the students in their respective family group, were based on themes from that teaching. Our students gave great presentations which built up each family – they are growing so much that it seems easy to do all these things that last term seemed so difficult!
And now onto this weekend, which is a little special. One family group will be taking a hike to the Blue Mountains and then a whole bus load will go to the Acer Arena to watch an AFL game. The students and sooo excited about that!!! Also, on Sunday I will be taking some students to Narrabeem Baptist Church to give a special presentation. Alyssa and Jordan will sing three songs as part of the service and at the end we will have a chance to chat with the people about Torchbearers. We have also been invited out to lunch – how cool is that!
Then it’s back to school in time to practise for another SN@C. Alyssa and Jordan are leading the worship on Sunday so they will be relying on Jesus for lots of strength!
Yesterday our secretary, Katie, went off to Germany to be at the wedding of two of our former students, one of whom she mentored while she was here for a year. We love being part of the lives of the friends we make here and it is such a privilege to be invited to so many weddings even if we can’t go to all of them. We send our love and God’s blessings on Sam and Damaris and they look forward to their BIG day.
And lastly, I spoke to Keith this week, he’s the American former student who created the i58 website, and we are planning lots of new things for the website – so be excited lots of good things are being planned especially for you!
All in all another BIG week at school where our students are continually being stretched to grow – how awesome is that!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
STEVE aka WOODSEY
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