Outstanding NAPLAN
Heritage College was recently recognised in the Herald Sun and The Age for achieving a ‘substantially above average’ gain in latest NAPLAN results. The staff at Heritage College work hard to develop a culture of continuous improvement. It is this culture of analysis,...
Basketball Academy
Edinburgh College recently commenced offering Elite Basketball programs throughout the school term and holidays. The program is open to Edinburgh students and students from the local community and is run by professional coaches from the USA and locally.
Congratulations Quinten Liebrandt
Quinten Liebrandt was ordained in February at Warburton Church. Born into a third generation Adventist family in South Africa, his life revolved around church. He fondly remembers spending the whole Sabbath at church, with church lunch after the service, followed by...
Canberra Trip
Year 5 and 6 students enjoyed a fantastic trip to Canberra. Students visited the CSIRO, climbed Mount Ainslie and explored the Australian Institute of Sport. They toured Parliament House, the Museum of Australian Democracy, the Royal Australian Mint and the War...
ADRA Welding Initiative
A pilot welding initiative (Chisholm Skills and Jobs Centre, Job Prospects, Department of Justice) will provide intensive job-ready training for former offenders, making outdoor chairs for the garden at the Springvale South ADRA Community Centre. Participants will...
Soul Food Kitchen
After a year of meetings with Cardinia Shire Council, Angela Makiru from Cranbourne Adventist Church has secured council premises to operate her Café – Soul Food Kitchen. The submission to council was a joint proposal between ADRA and Soul Food to operate a facility...
Desire of Ages & the Great Controversy
Gino answered the door and his interest was captured. Having reached the ripe age of 81, he was keen to discuss his past health issues and their management. We moved onto the Family Bible and he told how his family would sit around the radio in the evening until the...
Pastors’ Retreat
Victorian Pastors were richly blessed as they met together for three days in March. The retreat provided a time for pastors to fellowship, spend time in the Bible together, engage in wide ranging discussions and pray together. Jerry and Janet Page, from the General...
A Collaborative Effort
Through a collaboration with the Nuer Community, Taskforce, Afri-Aus Care and the Victorian Police a further $50,000 will support the community development activities at the ADRA Community Centre at Springvale and the South–East Community Links with the following: 1....
Ordaining Trent
End of March saw Trent Martin ordained. Many of you may know him from his years working in the Youth Department. He has also served at Frankston and Dandenong Polish churches and currently is with Mernda Church and Gilson College Mernda. Trent grew up in Lismore NSW,...
Congratulations Andrew
Andrew Wilson’s ordination took place at Bairnsdale in early March. Unlike Quinten, Andrew grew up in a non-Christian home and rarely even considered God’s existence, although he did wonder what life was about, if there was something more to it and what happened after...
ADRA Vic Secures Federal Funding
Praise God! ADRA Victoria has been approved $159,826 of Federal DSS funding to support fourteen ADRA projects across the state! $4,300 of this is to fund three Tasmanian projects. The funding will support volunteers and staff who work across our program areas:...
Why are our Schools Growing?
It is exciting to know that our schools are growing – each year we add more buildings to meet the growing demand for places in our schools. This year, for example, we are spending in excess of $5 million on new buildings. We are fortunate that almost 50% of this is...
Lest we forget…
NCC students and staff from ELC to Year 12 gathered for a special ANZAC Ceremony on Wednesday 24 April. To commemorate the occasion, NCC Prep students gave every student a handmade poppy for the ceremony.
Grow
The 2019 GROW Conference for Elders and Church Leaders featured Jerry and Janet Page and made the experience of prayer the focus. The prayer summit occurred over the long weekend in March to help spiritually prepare for the ‘Revelation Today’ meetings in May. Jerry is...
2018 by the Numbers
God has blessed the Victorian Conference yet again in 2018, with increasing membership in our churches, increased tithe and giving, increased enrolment in our schools, and refocused management of our aged care. Church membership has increased by 166 members from 2017...
Manuel Tikulin
Hello everybody! My name is Manuel Tikulin and I come from Croatia to pastor St. Albans and Westall Churches. As a young person I did not believe in God because no one had meaningful answers to my questions on death and suffering. Meeting my wife was my first contact...
Rose Andrykanus
Rose has this year joined VicYouth and loves her role as Assistant Youth Director. She loves people and seeing God transform them. She sees His transformation in her life as He guided her steps to the path He had chosen for her. It has been and is a journey by faith,...
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson will be working with Burwood Church as the assistant pastor, working primarily with children and teens. His wife, Lyndelle is also a pastor and is a departmental director for the Australian Union Conference. Adrian is super passionate about...
Jose St Phard
Jose St Phard, who comes to us from the USA, is not new to Melbourne, having recently been one of our guest speakers at Big Camp. He was called to ministry at the age of 17 and been on an incredible journey of faith and grace ever since. His ministerial career began...
Jonathon Gillard
Jonathon Gillard, from New Zealand, loves his home country and was sad to leave, however his fiancé (now wife, Catherine) has been teaching at Gilson College the last two years, so he willingly accepted a call to serve the College as part of the chaplaincy team. After...
Paul Kleinmeulman
Paul Kleinmeulman did not grow up a Christian. He fell in love with the God of the Bible while at university. He and his wife have since dedicated their lives to the church and for the last eight years have been serving Him in SNZ. Paul has a love for evangelism,...
Jared French
Jared French has a number of passions. He loves animals – spiders in particular (he was a Curator of Zoology in NZ) – and exercise (especially if it involves a basketball and his two sons). He’s not averse to board games and holidays either. He loves books and...
Tauae Poasa
Graduating from Avondale in 2014, Tauae Poasa has worked as a Bible worker at Northpoint Church and then Ascot Vale Church, so he is not new to Victoria either. However this year sees him commencing his internship, working with Geelong and Colac churches. He loves the...