O-Week is upon us, which means there’ll be thousands of new students to welcome from tomorrow morning! Here’s a brief outlook of what NCS and FOCUS will be doing, so head along to whatever you can:
O-Week 2012
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AFES Getaway ’12
Join us for NCS and FOCUS’ Getaway
7pm Friday 9th – 2pm Sunday 11th of March...
Meet new friends, spend time in God’s word, swim, fish, enjoy the open-air cinema and relax your way into the uni year.
photo credit: paul (dex)
Lake Macquarie Crusader site… 40 Yarrawonga Park Rd, Balcolyn NSW 2264
Cost…
The whole weekend (@$90/person) *$80 if you are starting uni this year Friday night and Saturday only (@$60/person) Saturday only (@40/person)
Register online today @https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVjYW1QN0V6ZW1GZGxRNGU5TEY5ZkE6MQ
Feeling strapped for cash? Please don’t let that stop you from coming… Fill out the registration form and check the ‘need assistance’ section and we will be in contact with you as soon as possible.
NCS Training Pastors in India
In 2 weeks a team of nine NCS students, graduates and staff are heading to India! This is the second NCS trip to India at the invitation of IGL.
The India Gospel League are committed to seeing church planters around India be trained in the bible.
A unique link between this Indian organisation and evangelical Christians around Australia has formed. Through this partnership, Aussies head to India and teach Moore College correspondence courses to the pastors who can not afford to be trained in a formal setting in India.
Over two weeks we’ll be teaching different courses (Old Testament 1 and Ephesians) in two towns, training around 100 church planters and evangelists.
We’d love your support – both in prayer and financially!
If you would like to receive prayer updates from this team please send an email to following email address… enjoyji {at} hotmail(.)com (please note updates in India will be dependant on internet access).
If you would like to help support this ministry financially please deposit money into the following account with the label ‘India Support‘.
Account Name: Newcastle Christian Students
Account number 980 013 703
BSB= 650 000 (Newcastle Permanent)
We need to raise a total of $13,175 for the trip.
The first $4400 of this is to cover registration and accommodation for the pastors attending the conferences – about $55 per pastor. The remainder is to cover in-country costs for the team – $75 per team member per day. (Team members have to pay their own travel expenses and incidental costs.)
The thermometer shows where we are up to so far. 
Get Cross-Eyed all over again!
The talks from WinterCon are available in the talk archive!
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At long last!
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Just beware the files are fairly big so if bandwidth is an issue for you it’d probably be better to download them rather than stream them.
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But they’ll work either way….
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You can find them here
http://www.newcastlechristianstudents.org/bible-talks/?series=30
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Enjoy
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photo credit: Photo Extremist
NTE Talks are Like a Fine Wine…
In the lead up to NTE, you may have a spare hour here or there. Why not listen to some classic NTE talks? A great way to bolster your joy in Christ! You’ll find them all recorded on the AFES website here:
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Talks by Date, Scripture or Preacher
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I’m listening to Leon Morris preaching on ‘unity’ from Ephesians (NTE 1979!), and it’s funny that not all that much changes. He still punches home that we’re saved by grace, that Jesus has destroyed all barriers of separation, and he even has a stab at the average hygiene levels of the male members of the audience…
What to pack for NTE
So I noticed a link to this article on facebook this morning. As many of us are just about to head off for a wonderful week of In Christ, I thought I’d share it with you.
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http://www.afes.org.au/article/nte-5-things-pack