Tasmania: 0 week mission
Thirteen years ago, my ‘gap year’ brought
me to Tasmania. Now by God’s providence,
wisdom and humour I find myself living
and ministering to the university community
(with
the University Fellowship of
Christians) in Hobart, along with my wife
and two children.
There are close to 14,000 students on campus in Hobart but the University Fellowship
has historically represented about 0.5% of
that number. Our ministry is one of evangelism and training leaders. It is an exciting but
arduous and slow mission field. Or at least it
has been until this year…
A gap year in Oz
Australia was never a place I had ever given much thought to, apart from 'G'day's, kangaroos and the television programme Neighbours.
But, after meeting some people from 'down under' in a Christian chat room, my attention turned. It was through getting to know these friends over about three years, prayer and God's guiding hand that I have ended up in Australia, not only going out to meet them, but to spend a whole year in Hobart Tasmania doing volunteer work with a church planting movement called Vision100.