Keeping Up With the Andersons

Over a thousand students from all around Australia (even Perth) congregate at Canberra each year for NTE. In The first four and a half days students are trained in ministry with 8 strong evangelical talks, 14 hours in smaller groups wrestling with God's word, and one elective of their choice. In the second four and a half days students are trained in ministry by actually going out in teams and doing mission.

Even though this will be our first year at NTE we will be leading one of small groups. The passage we will be looking at is Romans 3:21-26. Starting from nothing, by the end of the four days each member of our group will have written a useable talk from the passage. Hopefully many of them will be able to use the talk in the mission part of the conference.

We will also be leading one of the mission teams along with a student from EU. We will be going to St Johns Ashfield with a team of 20, helping out with the kids club, the mothers group and also engaging with the community door to door, at the station and at the shopping mall.

We're very excited about NTE. Please pray that we will be well prepared, that the students get lots from the training and that the church is helped by the mission.

Thank you to all of you for the last two years. We couldn't have been on campus if you weren't helping that happen, with your prayers, money and love.

Just to let you know that we're planning on studying at SMBC (Sydney Missionary and Bible College) next year. We've signed up for a one-year course, which is really the first year of the masters course.

Please let us know what's happening in your lives

I had a wonderful night last night with the Economics EU guys

We had dinner at a lovely 'al fresco' place in glebe, and had so much fun together. It was wonderful for the 6 of us who were leaving to be each prayed for, and given a beautiful pressie and card. Please pray that each of us leaving would continue in Christ, and see our new workplace, or place of study, as our missionfield!  Two are getting married, one is moving to Canberra, two of us will do further study elsewhere, one hasn't yet found employment, and all of us want to continue in Christ.



It was also lovely to see some key first and second years there. One of the guys went to the 'evangelism summit' last week and keeps asking how he can get more involved in EU. Keep praying that these keen guys will continue and build and strengthen and grow the ministry...that many Ecos students will hear of Jesus, Christians will join in our mission, and God's Spirit will be at work in the faculty. Pray that people don't lose their excitement over summer, but continue in serving, and are a blessing in their holiday activities - work, camp, relaxing whatever. It was also great to have a good conversation with someone about relationship with their parents. It's a hard time of life in moving from childhood to adulthood and independence.

See many of you on Sat!