Imprint June 2019

Church News
Albury | University Ministry
In 2018, Albury Young Adults began planning a ministry to serve students at
Charles Sturt University - Albury campus. The Young Adults group were already
running Foodie Fortnight, a community-building event centred around
cooking and eating together, and decided to use this as the basis for a ministry
reaching out to uni students. This was launched at the beginning of first semester
2019 with two events designed to introduce Foodie Fortnight to CSU
students and to raise awareness of the existence of the ministry.
At the University Market Day, held in week two, Foodie Fortnight ran a stall
promoting the first event of the year, a wood-fired pizza night to be held
the following week. The stall also gave away samples of simple, healthy food
to give the students a taste of typical Foodie Fortnight fare. The following
Wednesday evening around 130 students gathered on campus to sample very
tasty wood-fired pizzas, prepared and served on site thanks to the service of
the Foodie Fortnight team, collaboration with the university chaplaincy service,
and Pr. Rick with the Youth Ministries pizza oven.
Foodie Fortnight Stall at University Market Day
Since then Foodie Fortnight has continued to serve as a means of growing
community and there are a number of students with whom the team is building
connections. Each fortnight those attending get to enjoy quality plantbased
food with a set theme for each evening, which has included Italian,
Thai, Indian, among others. Please continue to pray for the Albury Young
Adults group and the Foodie Fortnight ministry as they utilise their spiritual
gifts to serve their local community.
- Toby Clare
Narrandera/Leeton | Easter Program
The week before Easter the combined churches of
Narrandera put on an Easter pageant for the
public. It involved each church acting out a different scene
including Jesus’ ride through Jerusalem on the donkey, the
last supper in the upper room, Jesus praying in the garden of
Gethsemane, the trial and crucifixion, and of course the
resurrection and ascension.
There were a range of different Jesus characters including
men, women, short beard, long beards, clean-shaven, tall and
short, but all of them portrayed the same message of a patient,
loving God who went through awful trial to save us.
Pizza oven in action
Manager scene at Narrandera Easter program
We had a great turnout from the community, with up to 2000 people coming through the production
throughout the 2 days. This included numerous schools, 2 of which were government schools! Reactions were great,
especially as they entered the first scene – Jerusalem. The whole room was set up like a market place kitted out with stalls
selling all kinds of wares, people in costume bartering, and palm branches for the public to wave as Jesus came through.
Many positive comments were made about how impacting the whole event was, and there was a marked contrast
between school kids as they first arrived (very noisy and active) and when they exited the last scene (very quiet and
contemplative). God certainly worked through this event, and the results will likely only be seen in eternity
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