ADRA updates
New Community Centre A new community centre and op shop will be coming soon to Springvale. A working group with Afri-Aus Care, Chisholm TAFE, South Sudanese Equatorians, Try Australia and ADRA will be creating pathways to education and employment. Redwood Centre...
STEM Blast off!
STEM – it's the new buzz word in education – heard of it? STEM education and training covers the specific knowledge and skills found in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines. It also covers the interrelationship between these areas, allowing...
GROW Conference 2018
June saw the annual GROW Conference take place at Camp Howqua. Initially designed for church elders, this conference has itself grown, to incorporate all church leaders. If you have not been to one but hold a leading role in your church, put it in your calendar for...
A Few Short Years
Our Schools... pro active in teaching our childen who they are in Christ... The tiny baby didn’t have a great start in life. From the time he was born, there was immediate fear. How were Amram and Jochebed meant to keep a little boisterous baby so quiet the Egyptians...
Stewardship and your child
Keryn Jasper, Assistant Stewardship Coordinator, shares how being a good steward of our children and teaching them about good stewardship, we solidify their identity in Christ.
Jesus Loves Me
A Note from the President The words were a bit indistinct, but with a bit of concentration and careful listening, I recognised the tune and the words of the song that drifted gently down the hallway. “Jesus loves me,” she sang, “this I know…” as she did whatever else...
ADRA Café and Outreach at Queen Vic Market – City
CDC Victoria recently donated a 50 seater bus which we are redeveloping to provide mobile health checks, counselling, a mobile shower, referrals, budgeting, movie/games nights and access to computers for people in need at ADRA Vive Cafe and Queen Vic Market every...
Ordinations – Congratulations Roy and Vikram
Traralgon Launches a Community Garden
On Sunday, 20th May, Traralgon Adventist Church launched their very first community garden! Members from Traralgon Adventist Church and Moe joined with community and council members – Deputy Lord Mayor Dan Clancey and Member for Morwell – Russell Northe to open the...
Back from the Brink..
News from our Literature Evangelists…
People are curious, and God is working on their hearts, even if they don’t realise it – As Anna Schlegel discovers repeatedly in her Literature Evangelist work. 'Adrian’ was interested in the Abundant Living series, but wanted his wife to see them first before...
Local Church Websites: Simple Church to Adventist Place
Adventist Media’s new website creator, Adventist Place, is now available for use throughout the South Pacific Division (SPD). Designed especially for smaller churches, schools and missions without a tech savvy webmaster, Adventist Place is a fully subsidised,...
Empowered to Follow in His Footsteps
Carrum Downs Samoan Women’s Ministry group hosted a Revival Week back in April. The program comprised of two elements, evening services and a camp that was held at Howqua. Doctor Erika Puni who is currently a lecturer at Avondale College for Discipline of Ministry...
Building Big Dreams!
Excitement is building at Henderson College! A Groundbreaking ceremony was beginning of June, to celebrate the commencement of a new Senior Hub, jointly funded by the Victorian State Government and Seventh-day Adventist Schools (VIC). School Principal Mrs Sandra Ferry...
2018 Youth Pastoral Worker Retreat
Imagine being part of a church that values their youth so much that they are willing to pay and train young leaders to do ministry instead of having that part time job at Macca’s or wherever! Did you know the churches in Victoria, in partnership with the Conference,...
A History Lesson on our Victorian Church
Earlier this year, in my capacity of Conference Secretary, I was requested to undertake research of the beginnings of the Victorian Conference for what is the single biggest project ever attempted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church – the online Encyclopedia of the...
Angelo’s Choice
Angelo kicked Lonnie in the chest and earned the point he needed to win. “Match!” Mr Haight, the Coach, pointed to Angelo. Lonnie and Angelo sat down on the gym floor to watch two other green belts spar. “Lucky kick.” Lonnie smiled at Angelo. “I had to even things...
ABC Online
Have you visited to our online ABC store yet? We have over 1400 stock items listed, and continually adding more. AdventistBookCentre.com.au. Subscribe to keep up with what's new, sale events and giveaways.
New Website Creator for Adventist Places
Adventist Media’s new website creator, Adventist Place, is now available for use throughout the South Pacific Division (SPD). Designed especially for smaller churches, schools and missions without a tech savvy webmaster, Adventist Place is a fully subsidised,...
News Release – ACA
, ACA Health Benefit Fund, a Private Health Insurance company which solely exists to benefit the health and well-being of Seventh-day Adventist Church employees and their families, announced that the fund is now available to Local Church Officers. ACA Health has been...
ELC – could this be right for your child?
Road to Bethlehem
At the end of RtB 2017, where we saw 13,750 people attend inspite of one very hot night (the last year at Nunawading saw 16,000), an email was shared with the volunteers by someone who had bought a young person in her mid twenty’s through for the first time. Here is...
Recently Ordained
The Victorian Conference has recently celebrated the ordination of two of our pastors and we praise and thank God for the dedication and passion these pastors and their families have for His work as they love, nurture and guide their churches. In December last year,...
A Trust Worth Living For
Stewardship (... Sabbath School... Health... we are all one in Christ...) So I’d like to plant a seed – an idea – in your mind: stewardship is much more than your money. If there is one truth this quarter’s Sabbath School lesson has taught us is that we are “stewards...