National Training Event
15 12 2009
Every December hundreds of evangelical students from all across Australia gather in Canberra for the AFES National Training Event (NTE) Where they spend 5 days in God's word learning how to nut it out, how to live it out, and how to proclaim it out. After this intense event the students disperse in teams of about 10 all across Australia (not necessarily where they came from) and proclaim God's word in 5-day missions based in churches.
In the first half MG, Caleb and I were in Canberra teaching a small group (12) of students how to understand a passage from Micah in depth - seeing what it would have meant to the original hearers, and what it means for us under Christ. We were very impressed by our group's ability to understand the passage well. The each had written decent talks on it by the end of the week.
Over the last 5 days there was a team from NTE at our church. They got involved in a lot of creative ways to bring Christ to the local area, including a free car-wash. We helped with an Aussie Christmas Dinner on Sunday, particularly aimed at internationals. MG cooked heaps of delicious food and everyone had a great time. There were some Chinese and Nepalese people there and everyone heard a presentation about why we celebrate the birth of Jesus as we do.
Thank God for the NTE conference and all that the 1300 students learnt on it. Also Thank God for the many short missions that happened across Australia. Pray that the local church members will carry on the momentum of the missions toward Christmas and that Jesus will be recognised as lord by many more people this year, and thus God will be glorified.
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In the first half MG, Caleb and I were in Canberra teaching a small group (12) of students how to understand a passage from Micah in depth - seeing what it would have meant to the original hearers, and what it means for us under Christ. We were very impressed by our group's ability to understand the passage well. The each had written decent talks on it by the end of the week.
Over the last 5 days there was a team from NTE at our church. They got involved in a lot of creative ways to bring Christ to the local area, including a free car-wash. We helped with an Aussie Christmas Dinner on Sunday, particularly aimed at internationals. MG cooked heaps of delicious food and everyone had a great time. There were some Chinese and Nepalese people there and everyone heard a presentation about why we celebrate the birth of Jesus as we do.
Thank God for the NTE conference and all that the 1300 students learnt on it. Also Thank God for the many short missions that happened across Australia. Pray that the local church members will carry on the momentum of the missions toward Christmas and that Jesus will be recognised as lord by many more people this year, and thus God will be glorified.
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