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Stage One – Elim Heights NSW July 6-11 Some volunteers arrived on Friday the 4th, while others arrived on Sunday morning to start a week of intensive, hard and challenging labour at Elim Heights Youth Camp. Some volunteers started their journey from interstate after they finished their work for the day and drove half of the night to get to Elim Heights to start working on one of the projects, “the amphitheatre”. The first day of work started at 6:30am…

Wentworthville Depression Recovery Program Sunday morning on July 13, the Wentworthville Church kitchen was a busy hive of activity as the sisters were preparing lunch for the graduates of the Dr Neil Nedley Depression Recovery Program. Although only six of the graduates (including church members) were present, we had a wonderful time together. Before sitting down to the delicious meal, Br Domenic Polistina, Program Director, thanked all for coming and shared a few encouraging words. Before and after scores from…

5 July 2014 July’s Youth Focus Meeting (YFM) took place at Danko and Rosetta Ilic’s home. Upon closing the Sabbath together, we were all tested on our general Bible knowledge by doing a couple of Bible Trivia Quizzes.   One was on “End of Time Prophecy” and the other was a general knowledge quiz from the New Testament.  These were multiple answer questions and even though they looked very easy, it did make one think.  For example: What does the phrase…

We just finished the first part of the public meetings at our special missionary project yesterday. As we mentioned before, for the most part, fifteen of us have been working in distributing 20,000 flyers all across the city of Kragujevac, Serbia, along with 450 posters. We even secured some radio and television spots. Although there were only a few of us, we were praying for God’s special blessings to bring people to the meetings. We are told that not many…

Schofields Church, Sydney, Australia On a cold winter’s Sabbath morning, our hearts felt very warm with the joy of Christian love as we worshipped our wonderful Heavenly Father. During the Divine Service, Brother Larry and Sister Tanya Ah-ching made their public declaration that they would like to be rejoined with God’s people and were fellowshipped into the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement Schofields Church. The opening scripture reading was found in Ephesians 5:25-27: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ…

On Sunday July 20, the WA Health Department team hosted another cooking demonstration, this time including a hands-on bread making workshop in the program.  It was something new for everybody, but went off really well, although of course we learned some things along the way. The program began with the bread-making, with everybody heartily joining in and having a lot of fun together.  Once the bread was ready for rising, we cleaned up a little (there was liberal amounts of…

“Organic Farming Seminar” Two training seminars were held by Br John Lausevic, the Australasian Union Conference Welfare Department Director, and the General Conference Welfare Department Committee at the request of the APAR Regional Secretary, Br Rolly Dumaguit.  The trip was funded by generous donations from brothers and sisters around Australia and the United States. Australia’s ties with the Philippines have a long history of church cooperation. Beginning in 1958, Brother D. Nicolici visited Davao City.  This initial visit led to…

Enjoying God’s Creation – Coral Bay Camp In this day and age with people living such busy lives, we are thankful to God for giving us such wonderful counsels in the Spirit of Prophecy which we can all benefit from, in our practical lives. “Let families unite together and leave their occupations which have taxed them physically and mentally, and make an excursion out of the cities and villages a few miles into the country, by the side of a…

“A Thief in the Night” 6th to 9th June 2014 This year’s NSW Conference at Elim Heights was held during 6-9 June 2014 in conjunction with the graduation of five students from the Elim Missionary College.  The theme was: “A Thief in the Night”.  The conference was based on the Bible verses: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the…