Next Year...

Dear Applicant,

In the event of a favourable response from the Governing Board of Moore College in regard to your College Application, attached is an Invitation to the Welcome BBQ by the Student Orientation Committee. This is a great time to meet the Faculty, ask any questions you may have to current students andto meet your future class mates.

God Bless

odd???

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I do find the above odd... but find much of this process odd, as I have been offered & accepted a Student Minister Position next year at CBTB (Church by the Bridge, Kirribilli) which I am heaps exicted about, yet it's not completely confirmed that I am accepted yet!

Anyway assuming I will recieve my favourable response, after 2 years of MTS at St Matthias, I will be returning to CBTB, where I’ll be involved in '18-24s ministry' and ‘community outreach’.

I am really confused by my emotions at the moment, of the gloomy reality to not be at church with those I have laboured for the gospel alongside, with and for during the last two years and the excitement of heading to college and starting new things!

I have loved all the varied contexts of sharing the gospel and my life... especially with my TAT ladies, my SWITCH girls, my PULSE girls and my Randwick Girls' girls. And it especially pains me to think I will miss out on the joy of closley seeing God at work in these women.

Thanks for your prayers and support of the past two years as I have MTS'ed... I do look forward to continued partnership in the gospel as I begin my study adventure & CBTB!

And please do pray as I finish up at Matthias, to wrap things up well and please ask God that he might provide people to take on some of the things I have been responsible for. Please ask Him to provide leaders for Matthias who are passionate about the Jesus, people and His word!


http://www.churchbythebridge.org.au/

Moore College Interview...

Didn't get asked any tricky theological questions at all...

Some of the questions I was asked were:

• What excites you about coming to college? What are your fears?
• learning & having my brain stretched, always wanted to go to boarding school so looking forward to living in an institution. Fears: can my brain be stretched?
  
  
• How did you become a Christian?
• Spoke of reality I have come to know that Jesus is the far greater treasure than the temporary glitter and sparkle of this world:
  Hebrews 11:25 "...choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward."
  
  
• Where do you want to be at the end of college?
• Wherever God wants me... but this wasn't an acceptable answer. The right answer but not acceptable... so I said "Anywhere" which was still not acceptable. So I said maybe Sydney, maybe overseas, maybe Remote Australia, shared about living in Aboriginal community and perhaps happy to go there... my theory doors open & doors close!
  
  
• How was MTS?
• joyfully exhausting!
  
  
• What things have you learnt from your experiences that will be useful in future ministry?
• No matter what life brings you, people still need to hear the gospel to be saved...
  
• God uses us in our weakness... he uses the weak...
  
• God is very gracious, forgiving others is hard...
  
• There is great pleasure in preaching the gospel...