Transform 08

On Saturday the 9thof August about 130 Scripture Union volunteers and others keen to increase their ministry skills gathered for the Transform 08 training event. Brian Harris, principal of Vose Seminary, was one of our keynote speakers and he spoke on “relationships that transform”. Through looking at significant relationships in the bible and also from his [...]

The last sacred cow

Let me start my post by declaring that I am a sports nut, have always been one and the Olympics are paradise for me. I’ll be trying to watch as much as possible over the next few weeks. In the lead up to the Olympics more and more people are posting articles related to this [...]

Cool people start their own charities

Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision) is quoted in this article as saying; “There are 700,000 not-for-profit organisations and the latest fad today is under-30s wanting to start their own not-for-profit equivalent of what in my day was starting a rock band.”
Cool! This is good news, I have always wanted to be Kurt Cobain (Sorry [...]

SU’s Senior First Aid Course

Hey guys, I realise this is late notice but I thought I would let you know about SU’s up-coming Senior First Aid Course. There are still 8 spots available and are open to any SU volunteers, others interested can also inquire about attending.
Heres the details:
Course dates: The course runs over 2 days, Saturday 21st [...]

Compulsory

I was checking out blogs in my lunch break when I came across this story.
While I immediately thought about my own encounters with bureaucratic frustration I quickly thought about whether SU was guilty of implementing frustration on others.
Jim Collins who wrote “Good to Great”, (a must read for anyone involved in the management or leadership [...]

Act, belong commit

So does this make it official? Can I say that the State Government would endorse being a committed member of SU is good for your Mental Health?
Mentally Healthy WA has a campaign called Act Belong Commit. It is interesting that the campaign identifies that as your commitment to a cause, sport, activity, church grows from [...]

The SU haircut

One of SU’s volunteers is cutting their hair. This is a significant event for Michel, who is a magician. Michel has been kind enough to raise money for SU, with the event occurring this Saturday. The local paper captured it like this; (another great example of volunteer commitment, above and beyond)

would I do it again?

At the moment we are trialling a few camps in partnership with the Department for Child Protection for foster children so their carers can have some respite. It is one of the key initiatives of the department since they underwent an extensive review last year. One of volunteer’s who led on this program Jess wrote [...]

volunteering 101

It looks like volunteering for SU might go towards your university degree one day.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23652754-12377,00.html
Good to see the value in volunteering being recognised in the educational development of Australians.
We’ll let you know when you can get some credit on your Uni degree.