So often you hear preachers say ‘you must have a relationship with Jesus Christ by reading your Bible.’  While this is essential to ‘Reaching Up,’ many don’t show you how. Being able to “rightly divide the word of God” (2 Timothy 2:15) and apply it to our lives, helps us to live out our faith…

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Leanne Champness, a mother with three children attending Sydney Adventist School Auburn, recently shared how the school community was one that could lend support when it was needed most. In an interview, Leanne explained how the kindness of the staff and students helped her family through the hardship of her sister dying of cancer. “Of…

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The Adventist Encounter Curriculum is a Bible curriculum that was collaboratively developed by The Australian Union Conference (AUC) and the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference (NZPUC), and is now making its way on to the global stage. Already in use in the UK,  April of this year saw The North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists…

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“Biggest Morning Tea” was celebrated in a delicious way at the Kellyville Hills Adventist College campus on 22 May 2014 with a baked goods fundraiser.  All students and families were invited to participate through Home and School and direct email invitation. The message was well received; various baked goods were brought in to help with…

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Preparation was underway for Band Camp on Wednesday, 21 May as students from the Greater Sydney Adventist school campuses came together to participate in Band Day at Fox Valley Community Centre. Sound bites from pieces like When the Saints Go Marching In, Hallelujah Chorus, and Peggy Sue were heard being practiced by the band.  This…

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‘And the Bride Wore White’ together with ‘Warriors Step Up’ are beautiful programs that teach serious messages of moral integrity in creative ways through meaningful illustrative games and activities, group sessions and personal alone time. Purity in a World Stained with Sexual Pain The programs also provide practical “how-to” skills for aggressively developing and maintaining…

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The youth at Waitara have been running a weekly online Skype prayer meeting every Tuesday night for the last 3 years. During this time people from around the world have joined in this weekly hour of power. A Providential Encounter After a recent Skype prayer meeting session, the host forgot to log out of the…

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Shannon Creasy believes “God is a magnet;” throughout our lives, He’s constantly pulling us to Himself.  However, it’s taken a series of events for Shannon to come to this realisation. “There’s something uncanny about God’s timing,” Shannon said, while sharing her story.  A very reflective person, Shannon kept asking the question, ‘why’ throughout her life. …

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Deep spiritual growth takes place in community. For this reason, Xcell Church, led by Pastor Frank Ropati, has a special emphasis on cells, or small groups, within its church. Pr. Ropati says that about 95-99% of the members of Xcell Church belong to a cell group. They are designed, he says, “to be a source…

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On the 7th of June at the Sydney Portuguese church, an amazing celebration took place as a wedding and a baptism were celebrated in the same service. Rogerio Marques and Isa Andrade got married during the service in the morning. It was a very simple ceremony that was both beautiful and moving. As the wedding…

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