Students preparing a group presentation. – Methodist Message picture.
Methodist students ‘Stay Tuned’
Students preparing a group presentation. – Methodist Message picture.
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BY GEORGE MARTZEN
METHODIST students at Trinity Theological College converged on the South Buona Vista campus of the National Community Leadership Training Institute from Jan 18 to 20 in order to “Stay Tuned”.
The annual retreat, which drew 38 ministry and post-graduate students, was called “Stay Tuned”, with emphasis on faithfulness to the Christian leaders’ vocation, ministry and family. Besides quality input from the speakers, the students spent considerable time in personal and group reflections.
Bishop Dr
Referring to the Christian writer, Eugene Peterson, he said that “busy pastors tend to be lazy pastors”, because “just being busy is often a sign of unfaithfulness to the pastor’s true calling”. Pastors, he said, must guard their devotional life.
On Saturday morning the Rev Dr Francis Ngoi, Director of the Oasis Family Life Education Centre, shared on “Faithfulness to our Families”.
With many expectations competing for the Christian leader’s attention, he stated that “faithfulness to our families is God’s preliminary call to all believers”. Married pastors, he said, need to be faithful to their spouses, and their spouses will need to support them. He encouraged the students to begin setting up family altar times, where all members of the family can share their walk with Christ.
On Saturday afternoon the Rev Dr Steve Emery-Wright, youth ministries lecturer at
The first exercise involved teams building towers of recycled materials. Following that, each team was given resources and a time limit to put together a Powerpoint slide show of a gospel presentation. By the evening each of the six groups shared their multimedia stories with laughter and appreciation.
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