Well, the moment finally came. We boarded our minibuses and headed to the Entertainment Centre in downtown Sydney. The countdown was on – in just a few hours we would be witnessing something the live album recording of the latest Hillsong CD!
I drove one of the buses and the crew were so excited that there were flashes going off, what with taking pictures of simply anything that moved, oh and a few of themselves too. And then there was the singing – just about every song from worship to Disney and back again!! There was no doubt, we were ready for action.
Once we were there some ran in straight away, hoping to get a place in the mosh-pit, while others queued respectfully to get a seat somewhere in the 20,000 seat arena which we had already heard was pretty packed. The fortunate ones got into the mosh-pit and the rest of us eventually got inside – the atmosphere was of great expectation.
The presentation began with Joel Houston, singing a song which, in his own words, didn’t have an ending. It was the best unfinished song I’d ever heard!! Then some of the more familiar singers took to the front of the stage to reveal other new songs. We appreciated the line up – Darlene, Reuben, Brooke and others. Absolutely awesome! I had a lot of favourites (if that’s possible) but the song that has stuck in my head is the one where the chorus begins ‘No weeping, no tears or pain’ GREAT JOB GUYS – can’t wait for the CD.
Then came Monday: our Pizza Night at the Colosseum – the fundraising event for our mission trip to Hong Kong. It was with great anticipation that we went. All the preparation had been done, all the prayers had been prayed - all it needed now was for us to be there and for a huge crowd to come. Well, God didn’t let us down. Soon after things were set up, (we had Alyssa singing and Prue playing the violin), the phone didn’t stop ringing. There were heaps of orders and then the steady stream of people coming to pick them up.
At one point I wondered if the whole evening was going to be like this, with no-one eating in, but then things turned!! Our waitresses were put to the test as all the tables were filled and the crowd was ready for something more than just a pizza – and they weren’t disappointed! We began our auction of all the donated goods from the local shops. The response was truly amazing – people were bidding for all kinds of things and just loving the whole atmosphere.
At the end of the night we cleared $1345 which included the 20% from all sales along with the auction proceeds and some donations. How great is our God!!
That’s the exciting news for this week - now we’re looking forward to lots of fun over the weekend. Next week I’ll give my last blog update for a little while as I’ll be gone for two trip to Hong Kong.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
Steve / Woodsey
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
IN THE NEWS
It’s great when good things happen! There’s often too much bad stuff going on that distracts us from all the good that Jesus is doing around us ALL the time! This week it’s good to report on a number of things that are making the headlines – literally.
First up, I’ll start with the latest fundraising initiatives for the mission trip to Hong Kong at Easter. The local Pizza House – The Colosseum - has agreed to host a fundraising night for us this coming Monday and its owner, Nick Losardo, will give us 20% of all sales for Hong Kong. Well, this story has captured the imagination of the community and has made it to the front page of our local newspaper plus a half-page spread inside. We’re praying for the biggest night EVER with lots of fun with music, making friends, great food, raffles and lots of donations to Hong Kong.
Next up, our last SN@C, (Sunday Night at Capers) was held in a local church – Bowral Baptist Church, and the result was extraordinary. We had so many young people come along for the evening from our community that we had an overflow of people that meant some had to sit outside the hall boundaries! We got emails about the service too, here are a few quotes:
“Please pass on Congratulations to the SN@C team!
KELLY
"Woodsey.....last night was the BEST night I've ever had at Bowral Baps.....THANKYOU and all the capernwray guys for what you are doing each week - man....you really DO feel Jesus there amongst us each week hey! :D
Its been a real privilege getting to know all of you at capernwray more, Jordon
We like feedback like this – it reassures us that we are doing what God wants!
This weekend we are also very excited as the entire student body will be going to the live Hillsong Recording of their new album – an exciting event to say the least. We have gone to this for the past two years and the students love the atmosphere of praise and worship along with getting to know the latest songs.
As you can see there are lots of things happening: we are either making the news or are being part of what is in the news. That’s life at Torchbearers and we love it!
Just one final note: a former principal of our Bible School has been teaching here this week. His topic has been the book of John and the students have been wrapped. This guy, Geoff Hobson, has such a teaching gift, and it is terrific to hear how each of the students are responding to the truth.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND GOD BLESS!
WOODSEY
First up, I’ll start with the latest fundraising initiatives for the mission trip to Hong Kong at Easter. The local Pizza House – The Colosseum - has agreed to host a fundraising night for us this coming Monday and its owner, Nick Losardo, will give us 20% of all sales for Hong Kong. Well, this story has captured the imagination of the community and has made it to the front page of our local newspaper plus a half-page spread inside. We’re praying for the biggest night EVER with lots of fun with music, making friends, great food, raffles and lots of donations to Hong Kong.
Next up, our last SN@C, (Sunday Night at Capers) was held in a local church – Bowral Baptist Church, and the result was extraordinary. We had so many young people come along for the evening from our community that we had an overflow of people that meant some had to sit outside the hall boundaries! We got emails about the service too, here are a few quotes:
“Please pass on Congratulations to the SN@C team!
KELLY
"Woodsey.....last night was the BEST night I've ever had at Bowral Baps.....THANKYOU and all the capernwray guys for what you are doing each week - man....you really DO feel Jesus there amongst us each week hey! :D
Its been a real privilege getting to know all of you at capernwray more, Jordon
We like feedback like this – it reassures us that we are doing what God wants!
This weekend we are also very excited as the entire student body will be going to the live Hillsong Recording of their new album – an exciting event to say the least. We have gone to this for the past two years and the students love the atmosphere of praise and worship along with getting to know the latest songs.
As you can see there are lots of things happening: we are either making the news or are being part of what is in the news. That’s life at Torchbearers and we love it!
Just one final note: a former principal of our Bible School has been teaching here this week. His topic has been the book of John and the students have been wrapped. This guy, Geoff Hobson, has such a teaching gift, and it is terrific to hear how each of the students are responding to the truth.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND GOD BLESS!
WOODSEY
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
GOOD QUESTION!
Just before our students went on Travel Weekend we had Principal’s Period where notices were given. As Dean I often say encouraging words to our students but last Friday I challenged them to ask themselves a question: What will they be so proud of when they come back from Travel Weekend? Answers soon spilled out like, ‘No alcohol’, and ‘Not spending too much money’.
A lot of our teenagers come to Bible School having experienced the full force of the world in their lives - it’s not easy to go against the flow of peer pressure. However, here at Torchbearers, all our students are in the company of others who want to live the same high standards for themselves as well as for their friends – that’s healthy living! I was so proud of our students – and I told them – when they returned and shared of having had such good times. They made good choices and were proud of them - fantastic!
Some of the things they enjoyed were the beach in Sydney, the Apple store, Coldplay in concert at the Telstra Arena, a home visit to the folks in north Sydney, and camping along the south coast with members of our community. What a life!
Looking forward to our next break – in between terms – we have a Mission Trip to Hong Kong which falls between April 10th – 25th. Three guys, Carl, Jess, Tony and I will be heading to Shatin in the New Territories to support Jackie Pullinger-To’s work with former drug addicts. We will live in what they call New Boy House where as many as 50 live together as a close family. We will do everything the guys do and as we share our lives with them we hope they will see Jesus in us and that will be a huge encouragement to them. We plan to have a Western Food night in which we’ll cook up some great Spaghetti Bolognese and serve it will garlic bread – something they always look forward to!
We also want to make a donation to St Stephen’s Society to help complete their building project. Our aim is to raise around $20,000 Australian which will convert to $100,000 Hong Kong Dollars. Not an easy task, but we know that what is impossible with men is possible with God. So far we are very encouraged by people, young and old who want to help. My heart is so touched by the care that people have for the less fortunate – I sense that God is very pleased!
We’ll keep you posted on how things work out. If any of you would like to contribute to our fund raising activities please contact me through office@torchbearers.com.au and I’ll be happy to give out information that will make giving as easy as possible.
Thank you all for your interest in our school. Just want to say that we had a local guy, Tony Parks, come for a ‘Taste and See’ week and after having such an awesome time he decided to join us as a full time student. We are all thrilled at the way Tony has settled in and is already an established and valued member of our school. May God bless Tony mightily during his time with us.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE and GOD BLESS,
Steve (otherwise known as) WOODSEY
A lot of our teenagers come to Bible School having experienced the full force of the world in their lives - it’s not easy to go against the flow of peer pressure. However, here at Torchbearers, all our students are in the company of others who want to live the same high standards for themselves as well as for their friends – that’s healthy living! I was so proud of our students – and I told them – when they returned and shared of having had such good times. They made good choices and were proud of them - fantastic!
Some of the things they enjoyed were the beach in Sydney, the Apple store, Coldplay in concert at the Telstra Arena, a home visit to the folks in north Sydney, and camping along the south coast with members of our community. What a life!
Looking forward to our next break – in between terms – we have a Mission Trip to Hong Kong which falls between April 10th – 25th. Three guys, Carl, Jess, Tony and I will be heading to Shatin in the New Territories to support Jackie Pullinger-To’s work with former drug addicts. We will live in what they call New Boy House where as many as 50 live together as a close family. We will do everything the guys do and as we share our lives with them we hope they will see Jesus in us and that will be a huge encouragement to them. We plan to have a Western Food night in which we’ll cook up some great Spaghetti Bolognese and serve it will garlic bread – something they always look forward to!
We also want to make a donation to St Stephen’s Society to help complete their building project. Our aim is to raise around $20,000 Australian which will convert to $100,000 Hong Kong Dollars. Not an easy task, but we know that what is impossible with men is possible with God. So far we are very encouraged by people, young and old who want to help. My heart is so touched by the care that people have for the less fortunate – I sense that God is very pleased!
We’ll keep you posted on how things work out. If any of you would like to contribute to our fund raising activities please contact me through office@torchbearers.com.au and I’ll be happy to give out information that will make giving as easy as possible.
Thank you all for your interest in our school. Just want to say that we had a local guy, Tony Parks, come for a ‘Taste and See’ week and after having such an awesome time he decided to join us as a full time student. We are all thrilled at the way Tony has settled in and is already an established and valued member of our school. May God bless Tony mightily during his time with us.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE and GOD BLESS,
Steve (otherwise known as) WOODSEY
Sunday, March 15, 2009
SNAC - SUNDAY NIGHT AT CAPERS
SNAC - SUNDAY NIGHT AT CAPERS
Last week’s SNAC was tremendous. We had about fifty young people from the local community come to fellowship with us, worship with us and learn from the Word through a dynamic presentation that our students put together to touch the heart of this generation. Fantastic! It was an amazing week to choose to do a feature for the i58 blog. Let me tell you about it!
We usually start the night with worship, have the student presentation and then end with more worship before ‘hang out’ time over a hot drink and some specially made cookies! But last week was completely different. The Conference Hall was set up as a coffee shop, so lots of ‘comfy’ chairs and tables with candles so the atmosphere was quite intimate. There was a coffee bar and food was placed around the hall – everyone got into the relaxed mood of the evening.
Our Master of Ceremonies, Thane from Canada introduced the night, as he usually does, and gave us an update on the week. The mission trip to Hong Kong was announced along with some fund-raising events and then we were straight into it. But instead of having communal worship, we had our talented musicians sing and play to us while we chatted to each other enthusiastically even if not too quietly! The wall lights and only added to that feeling of intimacy and we all just enjoyed lots of catch up time while listening to the beautiful singing.
Then, after about ten minutes the first of the ‘dramas’ were presented by the SNAC team. There was ‘grandpa’ sitting with his grandson, (Thane back again), reminiscing about his time at Capernwray while his grandson asked him the tough questions of how our faith is made relevant today. To help the audience ‘get it’ there followed a drama that clearly made the point – we were so built up! Then there was more music, then more dramas and so the evening went on. The last set of songs was sung by our very own Alyssa with Jordan from the local community. Together they brought us into the very presence of God – they were simply sensational. Their final song, Lead me to the cross, which was originally sung by Tim Hughes and Brooke Fraser, was so God breathed it literally took our breath away!
What an evening! When speaking to everyone afterwards they just loved the relaxed atmosphere and enjoyed really connecting with so many different people. Jordan Worner, who is in the process of recording his own CD, told me that he asked Alyssa to join him to record a song on his new album AND she said, ‘Yes.’ I’ll keep you posted as to when the CDs are available.
Also, this week we had Quite Day at Capernwray which meant that all the students could just spend the day in the Word. For some this is a little daunting, but once the day got underway they really meet with the living God. In the evening there were lots of testimonies of how personally God had met with them. This is always a highlight for the staff – to see just how the students are deepening their relationship with God – AWESOME.
Next week I’ll tell you a little more about the mission trip to Hong Kong and let you know how the Travel Weekend went, when all our students went loose in Sydney!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK and God bless,
WOODSEY
Last week’s SNAC was tremendous. We had about fifty young people from the local community come to fellowship with us, worship with us and learn from the Word through a dynamic presentation that our students put together to touch the heart of this generation. Fantastic! It was an amazing week to choose to do a feature for the i58 blog. Let me tell you about it!
We usually start the night with worship, have the student presentation and then end with more worship before ‘hang out’ time over a hot drink and some specially made cookies! But last week was completely different. The Conference Hall was set up as a coffee shop, so lots of ‘comfy’ chairs and tables with candles so the atmosphere was quite intimate. There was a coffee bar and food was placed around the hall – everyone got into the relaxed mood of the evening.
Our Master of Ceremonies, Thane from Canada introduced the night, as he usually does, and gave us an update on the week. The mission trip to Hong Kong was announced along with some fund-raising events and then we were straight into it. But instead of having communal worship, we had our talented musicians sing and play to us while we chatted to each other enthusiastically even if not too quietly! The wall lights and only added to that feeling of intimacy and we all just enjoyed lots of catch up time while listening to the beautiful singing.
Then, after about ten minutes the first of the ‘dramas’ were presented by the SNAC team. There was ‘grandpa’ sitting with his grandson, (Thane back again), reminiscing about his time at Capernwray while his grandson asked him the tough questions of how our faith is made relevant today. To help the audience ‘get it’ there followed a drama that clearly made the point – we were so built up! Then there was more music, then more dramas and so the evening went on. The last set of songs was sung by our very own Alyssa with Jordan from the local community. Together they brought us into the very presence of God – they were simply sensational. Their final song, Lead me to the cross, which was originally sung by Tim Hughes and Brooke Fraser, was so God breathed it literally took our breath away!
What an evening! When speaking to everyone afterwards they just loved the relaxed atmosphere and enjoyed really connecting with so many different people. Jordan Worner, who is in the process of recording his own CD, told me that he asked Alyssa to join him to record a song on his new album AND she said, ‘Yes.’ I’ll keep you posted as to when the CDs are available.
Also, this week we had Quite Day at Capernwray which meant that all the students could just spend the day in the Word. For some this is a little daunting, but once the day got underway they really meet with the living God. In the evening there were lots of testimonies of how personally God had met with them. This is always a highlight for the staff – to see just how the students are deepening their relationship with God – AWESOME.
Next week I’ll tell you a little more about the mission trip to Hong Kong and let you know how the Travel Weekend went, when all our students went loose in Sydney!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK and God bless,
WOODSEY
Thursday, March 5, 2009
We've got talent, yes we do!
Well, life at Torchbearers continues at a pace. We’re already half way through this term! Can you believe it? Still so much to learn and so much to do!
This week’s highlight was undoubtedly the TALENT SHOW. Thane and Katie, (both extravert students from Canada), hosted this spectacular evening and did an outstanding job. They introduced us to such a variety of acts including guys improvising with props, violin duets, poetry, leg wrestling, beautiful singing, comedy acts and even a student take off of a staff meeting! At the end of the show Thane and Katie gave away a prize to the act with the loudest applause and it was a very close thing between the ‘staff meeting’ and the girls’ act of dance and song to the tunes from ‘Grease’. What a night! Those times of fun and laughter really help to bond us as a family, (not forgetting the hours of endless fun putting the acts together!).
God’s been pretty busy just of late – well it seems that way at least. It’s around this time of term that a few feathers are ruffled; some people just have to let off a bit of steam. And that’s great! Why? For then comes the time to talk things through and let God have his way! There’s a kind of paradox at work here – we love happy families but we can’t truly have them if we don’t also love the ‘messy’ times too. This assures us that life is real and with God right in the middle of it, we wouldn’t have it any other way.
We have a mission trip organised for the two week break for three students, Carl, Jess, Tony and me. We are all getting excited about helping the poor in Hong Kong with St Stephens Society and are busy getting trained up even to the extent of learning some of the language! Today we learnt how to say, Hello, my name is…It comes out something like this: Nei ho, ngoh gui Stefu. We had quite a few laughs as I’m sure you can imagine! Please pray for us and the trip as its going to be a challenging two weeks for sure!! When we come back we’ll share lots of our stories.
As part of our trip we’re also planning some fund-raising projects and have some pretty good ideas going already, like organising a huge Pizza Party!! We’ll keep you posted on how our activities go and how much money we raise. We’d love to take a significant financial blessing as well as giving of our time and love.
Well, that’s about it for now. Next week I’ll do a focus on our SN@C programme and tell you something of the exciting times here on Campus on Sunday nights with the community.
Until then, have a God blessed week!
WOODSEY
Steve Woods
This week’s highlight was undoubtedly the TALENT SHOW. Thane and Katie, (both extravert students from Canada), hosted this spectacular evening and did an outstanding job. They introduced us to such a variety of acts including guys improvising with props, violin duets, poetry, leg wrestling, beautiful singing, comedy acts and even a student take off of a staff meeting! At the end of the show Thane and Katie gave away a prize to the act with the loudest applause and it was a very close thing between the ‘staff meeting’ and the girls’ act of dance and song to the tunes from ‘Grease’. What a night! Those times of fun and laughter really help to bond us as a family, (not forgetting the hours of endless fun putting the acts together!).
God’s been pretty busy just of late – well it seems that way at least. It’s around this time of term that a few feathers are ruffled; some people just have to let off a bit of steam. And that’s great! Why? For then comes the time to talk things through and let God have his way! There’s a kind of paradox at work here – we love happy families but we can’t truly have them if we don’t also love the ‘messy’ times too. This assures us that life is real and with God right in the middle of it, we wouldn’t have it any other way.
We have a mission trip organised for the two week break for three students, Carl, Jess, Tony and me. We are all getting excited about helping the poor in Hong Kong with St Stephens Society and are busy getting trained up even to the extent of learning some of the language! Today we learnt how to say, Hello, my name is…It comes out something like this: Nei ho, ngoh gui Stefu. We had quite a few laughs as I’m sure you can imagine! Please pray for us and the trip as its going to be a challenging two weeks for sure!! When we come back we’ll share lots of our stories.
As part of our trip we’re also planning some fund-raising projects and have some pretty good ideas going already, like organising a huge Pizza Party!! We’ll keep you posted on how our activities go and how much money we raise. We’d love to take a significant financial blessing as well as giving of our time and love.
Well, that’s about it for now. Next week I’ll do a focus on our SN@C programme and tell you something of the exciting times here on Campus on Sunday nights with the community.
Until then, have a God blessed week!
WOODSEY
Steve Woods
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Putting our faith into action
Torchbearers Australia is a wonderful place to live learn and grow. Where ever we are on this 25 acre property we surrounded by God’s beautiful nature and His peace. A lot of our students particularly enjoy this especially as it’s a far cry from a world that’s pretty full-on at distracting us just about every minute of the day!
We love to build up our students in their faith and then sending them out to put it into action! Every week there are lots of ministries happening here in our local community – all offering our students lots of variety such as working with young kids, youth, street kids, church, or old folk!
This week I spoke to some of our students and asked them to give us a flavour of the activities they get up to. I started with a group of three girls Cari, Kristen and Shannon, all from Canada and all go to ‘Xgen’ the youth group of One Life Church in Moss Vale. They said that it runs every Friday night from about 7.30 until 9.00 and there’s a lot to get excited about. They love just hanging out with the young crowd of about 15 youngsters before they begin to worship with the band. Then their ‘on fire for Jesus’ youth leader, Scott Cummings, leads a game and shares a message. I asked Cari what she liked best about the night and she said, ‘I love the atmosphere, its great! And I’m impressed that the kids get along so well, (aged from about 13 – 20).’ Shannon and Kristen both said they liked Scott’s motto, ‘When you come to Xgen, bring a Bible, bring a notepad, bring a pen AND a friend!’ I have to say I rather like that too!
Our other neighbouring town is Bowral and that’s where Thomas and Cade, (also both from Canada), go to on Monday evenings from 5.30 – 7.15. Their destination is St Jude’s Anglican Church’s Boys Club where there are heaps of 7 – 13 year olds all wanting to cling on to their arms and their legs when ever they can. They said that the boys sometimes they get so carried away with the games that it’s hard for them to hear what’s being said so Cade and Thomas have to shout a lot!!! I asked Cade what was the best thing about the club and he said, ‘Bonding with the kids. One of the guys only has sisters so it’s good to be a big brother to him.’ How cool is that!
There’s always something going on here. With 24 young people the energy levels run pretty high and they certainly keep the staff on our toes. But I have to say that the energy we really need for all this work is the life of Jesus. This week I was talking to the class about spending Quiet Times with God. I used the titles of two Hillsong songs to make the point: ‘The more personal time we spend with God the stronger we are FROM THE INSIDE OUT so that when we are in the world and faced with temptations we’ll be able to say, ‘I’LL STAND’ without falling!’ I think they got it and I hope it may encourage you too!
I’m off on a conference tomorrow in Sydney for two days and among other speakers I’m looking forward to hearing Dr John Dickson talking on Humility, the essential leadership quality. That will definitely provoke our thinking!!
Oh, just one other thing, the students who did an awesome job at fund raising for the Bush fire victims made it into the Southern Highlands News – another great story of putting our faith into action!
Looking forward to catching up with you all next week. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
WOODSEY
We love to build up our students in their faith and then sending them out to put it into action! Every week there are lots of ministries happening here in our local community – all offering our students lots of variety such as working with young kids, youth, street kids, church, or old folk!
This week I spoke to some of our students and asked them to give us a flavour of the activities they get up to. I started with a group of three girls Cari, Kristen and Shannon, all from Canada and all go to ‘Xgen’ the youth group of One Life Church in Moss Vale. They said that it runs every Friday night from about 7.30 until 9.00 and there’s a lot to get excited about. They love just hanging out with the young crowd of about 15 youngsters before they begin to worship with the band. Then their ‘on fire for Jesus’ youth leader, Scott Cummings, leads a game and shares a message. I asked Cari what she liked best about the night and she said, ‘I love the atmosphere, its great! And I’m impressed that the kids get along so well, (aged from about 13 – 20).’ Shannon and Kristen both said they liked Scott’s motto, ‘When you come to Xgen, bring a Bible, bring a notepad, bring a pen AND a friend!’ I have to say I rather like that too!
Our other neighbouring town is Bowral and that’s where Thomas and Cade, (also both from Canada), go to on Monday evenings from 5.30 – 7.15. Their destination is St Jude’s Anglican Church’s Boys Club where there are heaps of 7 – 13 year olds all wanting to cling on to their arms and their legs when ever they can. They said that the boys sometimes they get so carried away with the games that it’s hard for them to hear what’s being said so Cade and Thomas have to shout a lot!!! I asked Cade what was the best thing about the club and he said, ‘Bonding with the kids. One of the guys only has sisters so it’s good to be a big brother to him.’ How cool is that!
There’s always something going on here. With 24 young people the energy levels run pretty high and they certainly keep the staff on our toes. But I have to say that the energy we really need for all this work is the life of Jesus. This week I was talking to the class about spending Quiet Times with God. I used the titles of two Hillsong songs to make the point: ‘The more personal time we spend with God the stronger we are FROM THE INSIDE OUT so that when we are in the world and faced with temptations we’ll be able to say, ‘I’LL STAND’ without falling!’ I think they got it and I hope it may encourage you too!
I’m off on a conference tomorrow in Sydney for two days and among other speakers I’m looking forward to hearing Dr John Dickson talking on Humility, the essential leadership quality. That will definitely provoke our thinking!!
Oh, just one other thing, the students who did an awesome job at fund raising for the Bush fire victims made it into the Southern Highlands News – another great story of putting our faith into action!
Looking forward to catching up with you all next week. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
WOODSEY
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lots of exciting things happening
Welcome to all our new bloggers and thanks for being part of something great at Torchbearers. You will be kept up to date with all our news and of course, if you have any questions or suggestions please send them to the new email address: i58@torchbearers.com.au. I’d love to hear from you and respond to you straight away.
I was talking to Keith Walters this week, (he’s one of our former student from the States who designed this website for us), and we were discussing phase two for the website. During the next three months we will be working with flash and also looking at ways that will allow us to interact more with each other. We’re living in exciting times – please pray for us as this is an awesome way to tell young Aussies all about what Jesus is doing here in and through you guys.
This week the staff watched the live SKYPE broadcast of the memorial service for Arno, (former student), and Andrew who tragically died in a car accident. It was a service filled with the Spirit of God and all the hope of our eternal salvation despite the sadness of such loss. Many stories were shared of Arno and Andrew and it was clear that they lived their lives to the full and for God’s glory. What a blessing! We praise God for their lives and continue to pray for God to comfort their family and friends.
Last week’s SN@C was another creative programme to attract heaps of youth from our community. Together we learned more about God and sung our praises to Him. As people were arriving we showed a one minute film of all the action from the previous week and our SN@CERS loved it! Well done Thomas and Carl who put it together – you now have a new ministry!! This will become a new feature at SN@C so come along and see yourselves on screen or catch up on an awesome programme. We are planning to put those One Minute Clips on i58 so watch this space!!
This Friday our talented students will be joining Springetts’ Arcade in their efforts to raise money for our Victorian brothers and sisters affected by the bushfires. We’ll be doing lots of singing, playing and dancing - all to entertain the shoppers and to encourage them to give.
This Saturday we’re taking our students to the evening service at Hillsong Church in Castle Hill. Most of them have never been to Hillsong even though they have sung their songs and may have been to a United event, so this is again an exciting time for us.
Next week I will invite some of our students to share a little about their time at Torchbearers. You can hear news about our ministries and the ‘goings on’ of everyday on campus.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK
Woodsey
I was talking to Keith Walters this week, (he’s one of our former student from the States who designed this website for us), and we were discussing phase two for the website. During the next three months we will be working with flash and also looking at ways that will allow us to interact more with each other. We’re living in exciting times – please pray for us as this is an awesome way to tell young Aussies all about what Jesus is doing here in and through you guys.
This week the staff watched the live SKYPE broadcast of the memorial service for Arno, (former student), and Andrew who tragically died in a car accident. It was a service filled with the Spirit of God and all the hope of our eternal salvation despite the sadness of such loss. Many stories were shared of Arno and Andrew and it was clear that they lived their lives to the full and for God’s glory. What a blessing! We praise God for their lives and continue to pray for God to comfort their family and friends.
Last week’s SN@C was another creative programme to attract heaps of youth from our community. Together we learned more about God and sung our praises to Him. As people were arriving we showed a one minute film of all the action from the previous week and our SN@CERS loved it! Well done Thomas and Carl who put it together – you now have a new ministry!! This will become a new feature at SN@C so come along and see yourselves on screen or catch up on an awesome programme. We are planning to put those One Minute Clips on i58 so watch this space!!
This Friday our talented students will be joining Springetts’ Arcade in their efforts to raise money for our Victorian brothers and sisters affected by the bushfires. We’ll be doing lots of singing, playing and dancing - all to entertain the shoppers and to encourage them to give.
This Saturday we’re taking our students to the evening service at Hillsong Church in Castle Hill. Most of them have never been to Hillsong even though they have sung their songs and may have been to a United event, so this is again an exciting time for us.
Next week I will invite some of our students to share a little about their time at Torchbearers. You can hear news about our ministries and the ‘goings on’ of everyday on campus.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK
Woodsey
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