Keeping Up With the Andersons

Ancon was fantastic!

One the highlights was Rowan's talks on resurrection, which made a big impact on some people, but the main highlight was that many people committed their lives to Christ!

Also on one occassion Rowan asked those who were willing to seriously consider going into full time ministry to stand, and about 200 people stood up!

I think my review group and seminar went well too. Plus there was lots of fun to be had. The picture is of people doing theatre sports stuff (I got roped into doing that too).


Praise God for AnCon and for saving some students. Also pray that we'll be able to follow up all the people that stood up, so that many of them will be part of the flood of Christian leaders we are sending into God's church.

Week 1 has also been great, and busier than we expected. On Monday I went with a group of students to do some walk-up evangelism. We got to explain the gospel to some people (one student from America seemed to be primed to ask all the right questions like "so, what difference does that make to how you live?") and we met an international student who is already a Christian, but had not yet heard about the EU.

Please pray for those people and that we might have further contact with them.

ACES and ISM meetings have already started this week for MG, and the small group Bible studies for the other faculties will begin next week, so we've also been busy calling people and gathering timetables. We haven't had as much time as we had hoped for preparing one of the student training courses, which also starts next week. Pray thatGod would be looking after all these things for us.

Sorry you havn't heard from me in some time. As soon as I was back from taking a break I was very busy finishing preparations for Ancon: mainly preparing my seminar on the historical reliability of the New Testament.

This morning we leave for AnCon (going via Officeworks to photocopy and also picking up some students on the way) Pray for our health over this next week, as we are not feeling top of the world right now. Pray gor general safety at AnCon and that God's Word is faithfully taught and received.

There are 375 students registered for AnCon, which is more than last year.

Hello all...we've had wonderfully refreshing holidays. We did the Sydney tourist thing...the powerhouse museum, the maritime musuem, the art gallery - I think my favourites were the giant steam engine and the submarine. I can thoroughly recommend these places for holiday visits.

We also went up to a friend's parents farm...I like to fool myself that I'm a country girl...but I am so so not. We went for a walk in the bush for about 1/2 hr...I keep sliding down the hill (it was muddy!) and Toby came back with 7 ticks! Ooops. But God also used the holidays to teach us a lot about ourselves, particularly some inadequacies in how we have been relating to each other. We're thankful to God and are striving to put changes in place.

And hello - it's one week till AnCon! How did that happen?  We're busy writing seminars, we spent today training the review group leaders, and we have meetings to prepare for next semester this week. It's an exciting time.

Please pray that God would use AnCon for his glory as we learn about the Resurrection. You can even come along yourself on Wednesday night, 7.30pm at the Tops Conference Centre (stanwell tops) to see what God is doing.  We'd love to see you there.

God bless

MG