Committee Retreat 2007

The committee retreat took place once again at Diana's pools, which has proved to be ideal for our purposes of having quality time on teaching and think-through sessions as well as having one or two hourly breaks to explore the stunning environment.

This year we had 3 teaching / discussion sessions lead by Lance, Gift and Willard and which focussed on our basis and motivation for ministry, our lifestyles and relationships, and the practicalities for our ministry to NUST students.

John and Bernie were sorely missed as they were attending
a wedding.

Here is a shot of our bitter disappointment of searching in vain for over 2 hours for an apparently magnificent cave, 100m from the road.




Fortunately with the timeous arrival of two little guide boys, they were able to lead us onto what was virtually a highway through the bush and finally pointing out the very well hidden cave.



Truely magnificent in the end!

Orientation 2007

We stepped up a huge gear this year with a much greater drive towards reaching students in the NUST orientation week.

We had a small team getting together for planning and preparations the week prior and how well that proved to serve us!

Our table outside the Delta Lecture Theatre was a great attraction with the photo board, music, brochures and magnificent banner showing our new logo.

For the orientation presentations, we had our team very soberly

walking onto the stage carrying a coffin. They were followed by Tashinga who delivered a message of being dead in our tresspasses and sins but alive to Christ (Eph 2:1).

Throughout the week we had a rotating collection of 'statues' posing at the NUST entrance gate. We had Tsungai on a cross, Tino standing in a door frame, and Gift/Tsungai with large and small yokes around their necks. From this we learned a valuable lesson that just boldly preaching Christ is by far the greatest purpose and that He draws people to Himself.

The week culminated with our Welcome event which was held this year at Lance and Ros' place in Hillside. There was a good attendance of 40 or so which was a huge encouragement for us given that they were mostly first year students.