One of the blessings of this weekend was coming home to Adelaide to conduct a church parade at Hampstead Barracks last night. The parade was a non-compulsory church service offered to participants in the General Service Officer (Reserve) First Appointment Course on their second live-in training block (out of 5).
77 officer cadets and 3 staff attended - almost 100% of the current course cohort. It was amazing to hear them recite the Lord's Prayer together from memory, something you don't expect young people to be able to do in 2010.
I appreciate the opportunity to minister in this setting and spoke to the officer cadets about how a strong faith, strong belief system, strong hope and strong character can be the best tool they can have for resilience in life.
The students move to the field phase of their course today. I will catch up with them in the field this Saturday.
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