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Highlights Christmas services were a blast in December! I had the great pleasure of organising the music and musicians for our carols event on Christmas Eve, which included a mix of traditional organ and contemporary band songs. Our Christmas services followed on from our end-of-year series entitled Home for Christmas, looking at how God’s promisesContinue reading “Nic’s Jan 2024 Update”

Highlight At the end of August this year, I went away for 3 days on HOUSE conference. This is a conference run by Youthworks to equip kids and youth ministers to disciple young people in our churches in a way that builds them up but is also in line with our biblical principles. HOUSE ConferenceContinue reading “Preeti’s Aug-Nov 2023 Update”

Highlights This latter part of the year has flown by quickly! Ministries have largely continued as usual, with a couple of recent highlights: we 4 MTS apprentices were invited to attend the Spring Celebration event for Easy English classes which kicked off last term at St John’s. This was a great encouragement, to see 40+Continue reading “Nic’s Sept-Nov 2023 Update”

Engage Youth Term 3 is often known in ministry as the most tiring term of the year, and it was certainly the case this year as well. So we are so proud of and thankful for our youth team this term! At Engage we ran a topical series called ‘Jesus And’ – challenging our youth to putContinue reading “Nate & Helen’s July-August Update 2023”

Highlight: College It feels like the first 6 months of this year have flown by! After a well-earned, and thankfully relaxing, break, I’ve started up semester 2 at Youthworks College. Excitingly, on Tuesdays, all four of us MTS-ers get to have lunch together at Moore – Helen and Nicholas for Cornhill and Nathan for aContinue reading “Preeti’s July 2023 Update”

Highlights July and August have been busy months, as I continue to juggle ministries through the remaining months of the year. But there have been some key highlights: Our music teams gathered together for training last Saturday, led by Jason who band-leads at our morning congregations. He prepared material on aural skills training and ledContinue reading “Nic’s July 2023 Update”

This might be cheating since it happened in July and not June, but it’s been a real encouragement this week. Last Sunday, I was able to run a supporter’s event at Rosemeadow and Appin Anglican Churches (my previous church). I got up and spoke about what church is like at St. John’s, what ministries haveContinue reading “Preeti’s June 2023 Update”

Highlights It is a joy to continue seeing our music teams grow at St John’s, as our band leaders (Adrian, Alex, and Jason) regularly meet with and grow the musicians in their care as they glorify God. I’ve been encouraged to meet with them individually to help them reflect on their leadership of others; andContinue reading “Nic’s June 2023 Update”

June June was a slow month with the days becoming shorter and darker. I, Helen was also sick with cold/flu for about two weeks with a very slow recovery time. So unfortunately that means there’s no video for June! The end of June has marked the close of term 2, and the halfway point ofContinue reading “Nate & Helen’s June 2023 Update”

Helen’s Update The month of May ushered in a slower pace of ministry. Between the cooler weather and sickness in the air, the temptation was to go into hibernation mode. But we keep preaching the word “in season and out of season” and while seasons change God is unchanged! I did my first talk sinceContinue reading “Nate & Helen’s May Update 2023”