Julie's Story

Every now and then it is great to hear an individual story of mission. Julie Davis supervises students from Flinders University while they complete their social work placements. At the moment she is supervising two students who are on placement with Hallett Cove youth services. Hallett Cove youth services (acutally based in O'Halloran Hill) is a service that has some pretty rough and ready customers. Many of them are quite removed from any form of normal societal influences, solid family structures or any kind of healthy community. Certainly they are removed from church environments. Julie is finding that she has been able to make some connections with these kids. Because she is often in her Salvation Army T Shirt, she has been indentifiable and has had a couple of chances to speak to the kids about The Salvation Army, church and mention God. What a great start in bringing these kids on a journey toward wholeness. Their needs are immense, and always this is a social work role, not an evangelical position. But by being the best social worker she can be in that environment and not betraying her faith, Julie is also being incarnational.