Today was a great day! A bunch of us from NCS were on campus today chatting to new students, helping them find their feet, giving them free food and letting them know about the Bible Talks, the Light House Walk and (more importantly) Jesus.
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We had heaps of students sign up to find out more about NCS and Jesus and stacks of them had no Christian background at all. Praise God!
And this is just day 1!!!
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Please pray for
- continued energy for us
- continued good weather
- many more chances to speak about Jesus.
O’Week day 1
O’Week
Steve and I just spent the last few hours dreaming and scheming and laying plans for O’Week.
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It’s going to be a fun week!
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We’ve got BBQ’s Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, we’ll be giving out business cards like there’s no tomorrow, there’ll be so many conversations that you could literally drown in them…. And not to mention the Light House Walk on Thursday night at the Train Sheds.
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We hope you’re getting excited about welcoming stacks of new students to Newcastle Uni, we certainly are!
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Why not take a minute now to pray for the incoming students?
Pray that’ll enjoy starting Uni and make good friends quickly.
Pray that we’ll get to meet them during O’Week
And pray that God will give us words to speak and will help us make them feel welcome.
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photo credit: Lyndi&Jason
Updates, updates, updates….
Wow! So much info has gone up on this website in the last few days….
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Check out the new events page. It has details of everything we’re doing over the next couple of weeks as well info about our regular events.
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If you’re an NCS regular make sure you lets us know if you’re coming to Kickoff. We’d love to see you!
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We’ve now got a map of Newcastle Uni showing where to find our public meetings (and some other things too). How cool is that?
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You can now download Bible talks from our Talk Archive. We’ll endeavor to keep this as up to date as possible…
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And we’ve added more details about Who We Are!
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Thanks for checking back, looking forward to see you soon!
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Kicking Off the New Decade
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2010 is upon us, the 3 months of holidays are almost over, and it’s time again to prepare for an onslaught of new students!
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The shear number of incoming personnel makes every O-week seem like a daunting task: how do I welcome so many people?
Even if I only shook hands, smiled and introduced myself to each newcomer, I’d be overwhelmed; drowned in a sea of new faces, names, backgrounds, personalities, expectations, tastes, questions, and doubts.
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And yet I’m confident. I’m looking forward to O-week and meeting new people, because welcoming the throngs of individuals isn’t a job I’ll be doing alone.
During O-week, it’s exciting to see the body of Christ at work – I’m excited because as NCS we’ll be welcoming together. We have a throng of our own. And not only our own, but God’s own.
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I’ve already been encouraged at the NCS Leaders’ Conference earlier this week, and with Kickoff coming soon (20th of Feb!) I can’t wait to get prepared with all of NCS for the good work ahead. To see God working through his people, diverse yet united, eager to serve their King, standing firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the gospel… what a privilege we have in being a part of it all!
