October 2012 - Gawa Christian School Website
October 2012 - Gawa Christian School Website
October 2012 - Gawa Christian School Website
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Community News<br />
We commenced our term with a community<br />
meeting to sit, share and pray together for our<br />
community, and give thanks for the wonderful<br />
partnership we have together. There is no better<br />
way to be united under the banner of Christ, than<br />
to meet together in His name and pray for the<br />
future of our kids. It is only through the common<br />
faith we have in Jesus as our Saviour and Lord that<br />
we are able to continue on this wonderful journey<br />
together. We hope to commence every coming<br />
term in this way.<br />
Saturday Fellowship continues to be an enriching<br />
time of worship for our community. We recently<br />
shared in a beautiful meal with the Gäwa and<br />
Ban'thula communities together (the likes of which<br />
could only come from an island community!)<br />
Afterwards there was singing and sharing and we<br />
were treated to a wonderful time of worship from<br />
a local choir group from Galiwin'ku.<br />
By Karen<br />
Marŋgi’thirr Program<br />
This term in Mayawa all eyes are on the sky as we<br />
study the weather. We are taking measurements of<br />
the wind direction and speed, rainfall, temperature<br />
and even telling time with the shadow on our<br />
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sundial. In maths, learning the days, months, seasons, telling the time and<br />
measuring things with number lines shows us how our awesome God has all<br />
things in His control in a planned an orderly way.<br />
We are having fun making, writing, illustrating<br />
and reading our own books. Spelling<br />
is exciting as we listen for those sounds<br />
that make our language fit together and we<br />
can spell loads of three letter words. It has<br />
been wonderful to see the children’s confidence<br />
grow as they become the teacher<br />
and read books to the class, some are now<br />
movie stars thanks to our iPad.<br />
In Yolŋu Matha, we have learned the compass directions and the children love<br />
to dance the Northwind dance and others, including the French dances with Sal<br />
on Fridays. We made some fabulous French castles by the sea with Damala and<br />
are learning French greetings, songs and numbers. We even watched the Three<br />
Little Pigs in French. <strong>School</strong> is a great place to be and as we wait for ‘Big Rain<br />
Coming’ there is a lot to learn. Praise God for good health and happy days!<br />
By Mandy<br />
We are working with our community to explore ways we can equip our young<br />
people with practical skills and abilities for their futures. Our Marŋgi’thirr<br />
(gaining knowledge) Program is providing them with experiences to build confidence, leadership, problem solving and life skills<br />
through practical hands-on workshops. Members of our school and homeland community are joining together to deliver a program we<br />
hope will build positive futures for our students.<br />
The boys from Damala class, along<br />
with some of the older boys from<br />
Mayawa class, have enjoyed the<br />
start to our program. Boys have<br />
learnt about the importance of oil<br />
in cars and then helped in an oil<br />
change. We also learnt about<br />
levers and then applied this<br />
knowledge in changing a tyre. The boys have taken great<br />
initiative in facilitating spear shaft and spear tip making with<br />
some valued assistance from older men in the community.<br />
Coupled with some great devotions from Matt, including 'The<br />
Armour of God' and 'Life is like<br />
a Troopy', it has been a great<br />
beginning to this new<br />
initiative. We hope and pray<br />
for God to work through these<br />
opportunities for discipleship<br />
and <strong>Christian</strong> training in these<br />
young men. By Steve<br />
Boy’s Djäma<br />
We commenced our weekly<br />
girl’s get together with a<br />
pampering afternoon. We<br />
made face and hair masques<br />
and foot scrubs with<br />
ingredients from the kitchen.<br />
With soothing background<br />
music, cucumber slices perched on<br />
eyelids while receiving hand massages, we read some scripture<br />
reminding the girls how precious they are. We are working<br />
through the attributes of the Proverbs 31 woman each week<br />
while the girls learn some valuable skills and also enjoy some<br />
traditional art and craft activities. Our time<br />
together each week<br />
has become a<br />
wonderful time of<br />
bonding and sharing<br />
of our sisterhood in<br />
Christ.<br />
By Salome<br />
Girl’s Djäma<br />
<strong>Gawa</strong> <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>School</strong>, PMB 257 Elcho Island via Winnellie 0822 Northern Territory phone: 08 8970 5212 email: gawa@ntcsa.nt.edu.au