Life with Jesus at Capernwray Torchbearers Australia through the eyes of the students.
Hi there, friends of i58!
For the next few posts we’ll cover our experiences on Prac Week. We’ll kick off with our work with the Salvation Army, affectionately known as the Salvos here in Australia.
I particularly enjoy serving the poor so we work with the Salvos a great deal on various Prac Weeks, and in particular with the Oasis kids in Sydney and with Street Level Church. This time we stayed for three days to help with their annual Red Shield Appeal, (our team raised over $10,000), and serve in their community.
We then set out for Moree, to help the Salvation Army as they serve the indigenous community. This was pioneering work for us. Here is a run down on the impact we had on the community:
First up, their leader, Adrian Kistan, said that he would welcome return visits at any time and he would like to send his trainee leaders (16 years old at present) to study at Capernwray.
Out of the 70 kids who we ministered to and feed for five days between 4.00pm and 7.00pm 35 of them gave their lives to Jesus – in fact they even made a queue to do it!
Their Blue Room (larger than our Conference Hall) was painted and became their Yellow Room.
Each of the five indigenous communities were visited by our door-knocking teams who offered to replace burnt our light bulbs or clean toilets. We gave away all our light bulbs, prayed with many people and led 13 years old Nicole to Christ.
Our team grew in leaps and bounds as we stepped out in faith and completed the work God called us to do. We arrived back at school tired but full of joy and so many more stories than the ones I’ve shared here. I am grateful to God and to my team that we were blessed to be a blessing.
STEVE WOODS aka WOODSEY
Dean of Students
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