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. :)

What’s going on in Pakistan?

6 months ago Pakistan faced massive flooding which affected more than 20 million people. As always happens our media services have grown bored with the story and so it has disappeared from our awareness.
I got sent a link to this Unicef video the other day. If you got a few minutes take a look at how things are there now and ask our heavenly father to provide for these who are still in desperate need



Hooray!

Gee O-week was awesome. Getting out every morning with the Red Army to pray, leaflet and meet people was wicked! I reckon I met around 150+ people during last week.

It was a little scary on Thursday arvo when we turned up at Maths Bus Stop to transport people to the LHW and only 15 or so were there wanting lifts… But around 170 people ended up coming and I didn’t recognise around half of them. So that was a relief and a big success!

I was so excited to see God working; answering our prayers, helping us find heaps of Christians and have in depth discussions about life with stacks of people. (Stu Southwell and I finished the week with one such conversations. It was a mammoth chat with four new students that went for over an hour and touched on most of the big questions that people ask about Jesus/Christianity. Please pray for them.)

All in all a great week! I wonder what God is going to do in the next couple?

I’d love to show some visuals from the week, if you’ve got some photos of Oweek shoot me an email at email.stevewatt {at} gmail(.)com

Kickoff 2011

Saturday 19th Feb

9:00 am

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Islington Baptist Church Hall

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New students will be streaming onto campus for O-week. Some will be Christian students, looking for a Christian student group. Others will be looking for friendly people, or even free food. All of them need to know Jesus.

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~ This is something so important it’s worth planning for! ~
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So many people come to know about NCS during O-week, and we only need to look at our own stories to be reminded of how beneficial the Bible talks, Small groups and WinterCons have been in moving us to love and treasure Jesus Christ as our only Rock and Redeemer.
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At Kickoff we’ll plan how to welcome them during O-week, and take care of them in the following weeks. We’ll fellowship around God’s word, enjoy some food together, and pray for those that Jesus will be entrusting to us for the most formative years of their faith!
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They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

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Don’t take your eyes off heaven! Come to Kickoff and get PUMPED to do a God-honouring job of welcoming all of your unknown brothers and sisters!

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Practical Promoters of Prayer

Self HelpIn the final TNT Prayer Seminar (run by Geoff), NCSers shared practical ways of bolstering our prayer lives. Suggestions ranged from prayer diaries, using “pre-meal grace” as a reminder to pray for other things, and mobile phone prayer-alarms. These are all good, but none of them are the best. They’re 8′s, not 10′s. Bottom line – they’re handy, but they don’t include other Christians and breakfast now, do they? No, no they do not. However, you’re in luck!

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FINAL PRAYER BREAKFAST for 2010!

this Thursday wk 13

7:45am @ 7K

call/sms me 0424 699 666 if you don’t know where this is

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Come get your prayer on!

Creative Commons License photo credit: Napalm filled tires