What has Eastward Been Up To?

13 years ago

Thursday June 14 – We traveled to the lovely Tumbarumba area at the base of the foothills to the famous and romantic Snowy Mountains. I swapped families and went to reside with my Grandparents and family in the charming village of Humula while my other family (pretend) continued in to Tumbarumba it’s self where they stayed in the caravan park there. Friday June 15 – This morning we went in to Tumbarumba and, while the children played on the concrete skate park and playground...

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Monday the 11th

13 years ago

Well we had a ball yesterday! We didn’t actually get to go and touch snow but we did see some from a distance. It was really pretty. First we went to the Red Stag Deer Farm where the ostriches and raindeer were the attractions. We had heaps of fun. There were about 26 of us in our group and it was awesome just hanging out, taking pictures and being together. Then we continued up to Bright where we had lunch and then played playground chasy on a massive playground with all the big kid...

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Wodonga Update 1

13 years ago

Well, today is Sabbath the 9th and it today we ran the first program of the trip. I felt it went really well. We left home on the Tuesday and traveled down to Cedervale where they kindly loaned us their activities centre for the night. We also got a quick tour around their facilities which we really enjoyed. The next day we continued on down to Wodonga and, after having lunch at a park together, we fanned out to our different host home. We are staying in three church families and they are ...

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Getting Ready for our Next Trip

13 years ago

Well it’s Tuesday night and we are all just about to fall into bed ready to get up early tomorrow morning to depart for our ‘Southern Tour’. Tomorrow the Ing family, the Thomas-Tong family, ex-students Dave and James and also Kate and Daniele will be heading down to Cedarvale to stay the night and then on to Albury-Wodonga, NSW. Here we will be conducting the first of our four programs to be run this month. First at Wodonga we will be taking the church service on Sabbath,...

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The Coona's

13 years ago

Church Visit number 2: May 18-27 – The Coona’s The year is flying by and we’ve just come back from our second church visit for the year. Out west 6hrs or so we went to Coonabarabran and Coonamble to do some health work with our churches out there. The purpose of this trip was to educate the Coonabarabran members and Coonamble member in running Health Expo’s and reaching people through the avenue of health. It started with us sharing stories of how the Lord has blessed ...

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Bundaberg Mission Trip

13 years ago

First Church Visit for 2012: April 6-16 Church Training 2012 commenced with a bang as the Ing’s, Thomas-Thong’s, Danielle, Dave and Kate went to Bundaberg QLD. We were scheduled to speak at a youth camp, preach at the Hinkler SDA church, share and afternoon concert, and do some 5.5hrs of training in lifestyle, natural remedies and hydrotherapy. During the time before we left for the trip there was much preparation to be done on the Eastward farm, making sure that we weren’...

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Blessings from Taiwan

13 years ago by Desley Bailey

The following message is from Leah – one of Eastward’s 2009 graduates. Leah has just recently got engaged to Vikram Panchal, graduate of Andrew’s University and soon-to-be intern pastor at Gateway Adventist Centre in Melbourne. “Dear Brothers and Sisters, I have been labouring for 6 months here in Taiwan. Today we have 80 people registered for our Better Life/Better Future combined Health and Gospel seminar. People are still calling for more information – I&rs...

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Making Hay While the Sun Shines

13 years ago

For weeks we had been planning to cut hay from our middle paddock. The grass was thick and good but the weather never seemed to be in a cooperative mood. We waited and waited but still it rained and rained and planned to rain. So finally we put our foot down so to speak and sent an email out asking everyone to pray. Almost immediatly the forecast changed and there was a week of predicted sunniness. Praise the Lord! As the days went by and the grass was mown and raked, the happy predictions held ...

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