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Mystery Box Cookoff Ready… Steady… Cook! The knives were out for our night of fun at the cook-off competition held on a Sabbath evening in September at Keilor Park church. Over 20 cooks (juniors, teenagers, adults) were divided into teams, of which each were to prepare a meal from a box of mystery ingredients! Every team had a different variety of ingredients to utilise, the rule being 70% of the box had to be used in the cooking. Everyone had…

Sabbath 24th September 2016 Ignite “…when we acknowledge God’s supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.  ~ Elizabeth George”  Everything that eventuates begins with a simple idea. Our idea was that we wanted a safe and free space for women to discuss ideas, concerns and topics that are relevant to them and other Christian women. Not only that, but with such a motivated group of ladies, we could…

Sabbath 24 September On the 24th September 2016, Pimpama Group had a missionary outreach afternoon organised by our missionary leader Sr Cecilia Arias, where everyone was involved included our young people. After prayer and words of encouragement to one another, some went letter boxing in Rochedale area, while others went door knocking getting to know their neighbours and offering a free copy of the book The Great Controversy, around the neighbourhood area of Livingstone College where they have their worship…

“Detoxing, the Vegetarian Way” – 13 September 2016 On Tuesday, September 13th, we held another cooking demonstration at Wentworthville Community Centre and chose the topic to suit the time of the year, ‘Detoxing, the Vegetarian Way’. We had fewer attendees than usual, but were still encouraged as there were a few new faces for the evening. Domenic Polistina gave a health lecture about detoxing, the reason why we should do so regularly, the avenues through which the body detoxes and…

September 2016 The evening was well attended by people and friends from the local community and the many helping hands of church members. The ladies worked hard to keep up as Diana showcased how to make and cook “Vegetarian Laksa Soup”, “San Chou Bau”, “Okonomiyaki” and “Goji Berry Tea-rrific”. While the cooking was going on, Brigita shared some great information about herbal teas. After Brigita gave a short presentation on gut bacteria, the dishes were laid out and the tasting began!…

Tuesday 6th of September 2016 Tuesday morning 8am: Not a great start…the inspector was late, and the concrete trucks were early, but soon the sun came out and things came together. By 4pm concrete was poured, and we’re ready for formwork. Let’s hope it goes as well on Sunday! We thank God for all His blessings! ~ Reported by Adriana Stanciu  

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Sydney 2 July 2016 After a beautiful, fresh but sunny Sabbath day, just over 20 young and young-in-heart gathered together at Schofields Function Hall to welcome the new week. Br Rolly Dumaguit told of his exciting experiences in Chile. While crossing the Atacama, the worlds driest desert, he observed the cedar and palm trees; they are very green and full of life, even in the desert. This is due to them being rooted down to the water supply. A comparison…

25-28 August 2016 On the weekend of August 25-28 all the women and young girls in Western Australian Field headed down to Busselton for a “Women’s Retreat”, the first to be held in WA. The weekend provided gale-force weather, but not enough to deter us all from attending. Friday evening after a short opening of Sabbath, we held the first meetings on “How to keep our souls alive” and “How to make family worships alive and interesting”. All meetings were held…

Robert Tapendo 27 July 1947 – 28 July 2016 Robert Tapendo was born in Kasoru Village, PNG. Since no one knows the exact date when he was born, at the time he immigrated to Australia they made up a birth date. The official legal birth date found in his passport is 27th July 1947; but it can be safely assumed that when he passed away, he was a lot older than what was stated on his passport. There is not…