Holroyd Ministry Development College
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2009 year-end Dinner and Presentation NightOnce again the MDC Awards Night is being held in conjunction with Fellowship of Christ's Christmas Dinner on Saturday Dec 13, at the FoC facility home of the College for the past 4 years). All students who have attended a Unit in 2009 are warmly invited. 2007 year-end dinner, thanksgiving, and awards' presentation night
<<< Peter Chan spoke at the awards presentation, and many of our former students continued to attend and support the College in 2007. >>> The challenge presented in the final Unit for 2007 (developing a strategy for an overseas missions' project) seemed to strike a chord in the hearts of many of our regular students. May they take what was imparted and do it in 2008! 2006 year-end dinner, thanksgiving, and awards' presentation nightPlease go to the Principal's Report for a summary of the year's activities.... This report was presented by Brian Rensford at our annual awards' presentation, thanksgiving, and dinner night - 7pm, Thursday Dec 7, location - Fellowship of Christ's facility (our MDC home). Here's some representative photos! Click on smaller ones for a larger hyperlinked one.
Below - the 2006 award winners!
Break-up
awards night attendees
We were again very grateful to the team led by Peter Chan at FoC for their kindness, servant-spirit, and participation throughout the year.!
2005 year-end Update
Awards this year were as follows (students must complete 2 Units minimum to qualify)…
Unit #05-4 was located again at Fellowship of Christ's new facility at 2/167 Magowar Rd, Girraween. Capacity exists there for larger numbers and to handle two simultaneous streams of this Unit. We are excited about the diversity of training this now enables us to undertake. There are continuous reports from coming back from students (old and young) of improved confidence in serving God, handling public occasions better, appreciating loving criticism and its constructive role in developing better ministry skills. That's practical stuff and of great encouragement for the future of the College. The current Unit (#05-4) on Cross-cultural development started with nearly 50 in attendance to hear Kevin Hovey (AoG Short Term Missions' Director) challenge us on recognising the differences encountered when people from "embedded" and "individualistic" values cultures encounter one another in Christian life. Updates on students, testimonies, photos, and who and what stuff... Some
of our 2005 students are involved in a weekly Bible Study meeting in the
Liverpool area (not associated with the MDC hosting churches). You can
pick up details from
their website 2004 year-end UpdateOur 2004 courses finished with almost 40 students attending the last 2 Units. For the first time, MDC ran two parallel Units, giving students the option of a level 1 Neil Anderson "Steps to Freedom" series (convened by Les Hansen), and a level 2 intensive on the nature and role of Ancestral Spirits (taught by Brian Rensford). A wonderful year-end dinner at the Rensfords' home saw the annual awards go to...
Student Testimonies are on the separate Testimonies webpage... Older Student News2003 finished with a celebration dinner and awards night at Brian and Elizabeth Rensford's home in Merrylands. A majority of the 40+ students who completed at least one unit in 2003 attended. Some very powerful testimonies came from the students - our youngest this year was Catherine Gannon (17) and our oldest was, ahhh, several in their 50's and one over 60! (female, so we are forbidden by law to mention names and specific ages...). 2003 Celebration Dinner
night - Annual Awards and testimonies from many students Our four Annual Awards went to;
Special Appreciation was expressed to Les Hansen, pastor of New Creation Christian Ministries, Rooty Hill. Les contributed over the year to lecturing, transport, encouraging many of his developing church members to attend, marking assignments and chairing weeks when Brian was in Zimbabwe. Without Les, the College would not have moved beyond being an in-house training program for one church (Holroyd NLC). A man of Body-heart and vision!
Alofa grew in 2002! Alofa gained confidence in public speaking in English (her
second language) One of the devotional groups 2002
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