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NCV
COMMUNITY
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NCV
COMMUNITY
EXPLORING CHRISTIANITY
AT NCV
Christian Activities at New
College Village (NCV) in
Semester 1 has seen residents
from many faith backgrounds
engage with and scrutinise
Christian beliefs in a number of ways.
Bible studies, topical talks with Dave
Doran and monthly trips to serve
at Newtown Mission are among the
challenging and inclusive expressions
of Christian faith being worked out by
those in the NCV community.
NCV Bible studies have provided
an opportunity for people of varying
Christian experience to regularly
discuss the Gospel of Luke and the
Psalms. These studies were led by
Assistant Dean Tawanda Masango and
Dean of Residents Susan Bazzana. On
a sweet note, The NCV Bible study
group has been blessed by a woman
from St John’s Maroubra who wanted
to support the college ministry by
baking them a homemade cake each
week. She said “I can’t do much to
help you with the Bible study but I’ll
pray for the students and maybe my
cakes will encourage some people.”
Local Pastor, David Doran, was
invited to give some topical talks at
NCV. The first, “God and Science”,
was followed with three “God
Conversations”, which addressed
issues that students were keen to
discuss further. The topics covered
included “With advances in science
and technology, is God still relevant?”,
“Can the morality described in the
Bible survive 21st social change?” and
“So many religions…so many gods…
is there only one that is right?” The
participating students have asked for
a fourth talk which will address issues
of sexuality.
NCV Residents have continued to
serve the poor and homeless through
monthly trips to Jordan’s Café run
by Newtown Mission on Thursday
evenings. This activity which has
been coordinated by the Dean enabled
some of our international students
to experience church for the first
time at the simple worship service
which happens before the café starts
serving its patrons. On the return bus
trip between Newtown and UNSW
residents have discussed who Jesus is
and why Christians seek to serve the
poor and the marginalised.
NCV COMMUNITY –
MASTER’S CHALLENGE
There are few better ways to fuel a rivalry than
with a fierce game of table tennis or pool. On
Sunday the 17th of April, teams of sporting
stallions from New College and NCV battled
intensely through three games of table tennis and
two games of pool.
The table tennis games saw NCV top-spin and
smash their way towards three consecutive victories,
leaving the New College squad with substantial
ping-pong practice to prioritize before the next
Masters Challenge.
The pool games were more hotly contested, with
both teams winning one game each.
Overall, the unanimous table tennis defeat lead
to the NCV Team proudly carrying the Masters Cup
across Anzac Parade…again. A huge congratulations
to NCV on this impressive win!
The sister colleges will lock horns again in
Semester 2, competing in badminton and futsal.
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