Record Time for Big Camp Pull-down

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

With a forecast of inches of rain looming ahead, the team was put two days behind schedule in taking down the large conference tents, and smaller family tents at Stuarts Point, NSW. Thankfully, and in answer to prayer, the vast majority of the rain passed south of the campground and Tuesday saw clear skies and an energetic team ready to begin the demolition. We were able to get all the big tents down and packed away on the first day (except the biggest tent, which was staying up for anot...

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Garden Produce

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

Plenty of pumkins, and cucumbers! Tim, posing with some of the fresh garden produce.

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Booth at Big Camp 2015

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

Being at Stuarts Point today was a real highlight for the team. We were one of a number of exhibitors at the NNSW Big Camp this year. Paul, Phil, Tim, Andy, Scott and I setup an array of Eastward Foods products, books, and produce from the garden. The chair and table massage was almost completely booked out for the afternoon! Thanks to Tany (Scott's wife) for her time massaging.  One of the things we promoted was the "Eastward on the Road" initiative. Which is to...

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Giant Pumpkin

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

A giant pumpkin certainly wasn't on the agenda for our garden production this year! So we were all surprised to see one particular pumkin, with no particular help from Tim or Andy, grow to the enormous size of 36 kg! We're yet to cut it open, but are looking forward to lots of delicious pumkpin soup :)

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Big Camp Setup 2015

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

It's that time of year again! For about the last week we've been setting up big canvas tents and family tents for the NNSW Seventh-day Adventist Big Camp. The Lord really blessed us with good weather and a great team!  Lots of exercise, teamwork and fellowship :)

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Dora Creek iDiscover Program

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

It was a priviledge to assist in the iDiscover evangelism program over two consecutive weekends this March. The quartet "Tim & Andy Hopkins, and Emmanuel & Henry Higgins", sang for three of the programs. We were blessed to make the aquaintance and also sing with Fabiano Niyonkuru, a theology student at Avondale. One of the songs we sang can be watched here . Aside from this, I enjoyed conducting and working with the church choir which sang four songs during o...

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Music Ministry

10 years ago

In January this year, we were blessed with six talented, music-loving students with a passion for sharing Christ and a musically enthusiastic staff. Under the leadership of Emmanuel and the guidance of God, we established a small choir and practiced faithfully almost every day during the one-month course. The end result was that we were able to film Eastward’s very first music video, “Crown Him”. ( http://youtu.be/sGPv_UR776o ) We began simply, using just one camera on a stabil...

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America Trip

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

Time certainly flies, and being in America with Tim and Andy for 5 weeks was no exception! Our itinerary included time canvassing together in Quincy, Illinois, before attending the ASI (Adventist Lay Services International) Conference in Grand Rapids Michigan. We later visited Country Life (at Oak Haven), Wildwood, Uchee Pines, Butler Creek Retreat, M.E.E.T. Ministries and the property of historic Madison College. ASI was a place to network! Hundreds of self-supporting ministries were repr...

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In Everything Give Thanks

10 years ago by Alex Murchison

It was a cold, rainy, misty night when we left the Buldah valley on a Wednesday afternoon late in June 2013. We had just spent two weeks with some very special friends of ours, and our time together had regrettably come to an end. We had pre-arranged that I would do about two weeks work on the farm at Buldah, and our friends would give us a hot water tank and two hot water panels in exchange. Whenever we visit Lloyd and Mirjam at Buldah I am never able to sit still for very long, so the hot...

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Eastward Music Camp 2014

10 years ago by Emmanuel Higgins

Are you looking for information on up-coming music camps? Please visit  www.mus.camp For two chilly weeks in June, 31 young people between the ages of ten and twenty-three from as far south as Tasmania and as far north as Bundaberg converged on the Eastward property to be a part of Eastward's first Music Camp - the first of it's kind in Australia we believe.  For two weeks, all we seemed to think about, to do was music. During the very intense time we learned, recorded and...

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