Community

This weekend we had a great sense of community around the place.

The youth enjoyed an 'in night' on Friday before many of us went down to witness the wedding ceremony of Myrtle Stibbe and Tim Freund at Murray Bridge. It was a beautiful day, a simple but meaningful ceremony, and Myrtle looked gorgeous. Check out the photos on the announcement slides on Sunday.

At the same time there were others working away at our centre looking after the shop. We are grateful for the ongoing work of the volunteers while we are in the long process of recruiting the right shop manager to replace Lucy. Advertising for this position should be out this week.

And at the same time, John, Margaret and Brian were collecting at the show. It is one of the easiest ways to raise money as people are so keen to support the work of The Salvation Army.

Yesterday was a good day also. The feel at both of our services was one of community. The meal last night was good fun. Thank you, as always, to everyone who makes our services run so well.

Some news worth sharing amid this:

Congratulations to Drew de la Fuente who has been accepted as a SUPA volunteer with Scripture Union. He did his first school activity this week at Edwardstown Primary. This is going to be great training for him and a great ministry experience.

If you get the chance, catch up with Paul who has spent the weekend at the Children First conference, and recently went to "Kidshaper" training. These opportunities to reflect and learn are going to make a big difference to our children's ministries.

Finally (today is a long post - sorry), on Sunday the annual City to Bay will be run. A group of us are running for Heartkids SA, a foundation devoted to supporting families whose child is suffering congenital heart diseases and also promoting childhood heart disease research. This has been driven by Nathan and Chrissy whose son Tyson, as we know, has had heart surgery this year and faces more surgery in the future. If you would like to support this cause and sponsor our run, log on to the everyday hero website and search for Nathan's page (called "Doing it for Tyson"). Thanks.