About

Connections is the official newsletter of Avondale College of Higher Education. It has been publishing announcements, a calendar, news and features since 1987.

Connections is accurate, balanced, credible and fair. It reports and it explains, and it is accessible and timely.

Avondale’s Advancement Office publishes 28 issues of Connections during the academic year.

Circulation

Hardcopy circulation of Connections is 400, which includes Avondale College of Higher Education staff members and students and other stakeholders such as Members of Parliament, members of the media and leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, the New Zealand Pacific and the South Pacific.

Editorial focus

The editorial focus of Connections is on how Avondale College of Higher Education:

  • Delivers quality higher education, and
  • Fosters a Christian learning community that is dedicated to serving world needs

Editorial team

Editor
Brenton Stacey

Brenton is Avondale College’s public relations officer, a position he has held since 2005. He brings a decade’s experience as a communicator in publishing, media relations, public relations, radio and television, mostly within the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its entities, to the role. Before joining the college, Brenton served as an assistant editor at Signs Publishing Company, working predominately as news editor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific’s weekly magazine, Record. He then joined the church’s Communication and Public Relations Department as news correspondent, primarily producing the television program, Adventist News.

Phone (work): 4980 2251
Phone (mobile): 0488 733 232
Email: [email protected]

Editorial assistant
Bianca Reynaud

Bianca is a Bachelor of Arts student majoring in French language and in English at Avondale College of Higher Education. Before starting at college, she studied for two years in Collonges, France, specialising in language and literature. She enjoys writing innovative poetry in both French and English, and has had a poem and choreography performed by fifty students of Fiona’s Studio of Dance at the 2010 Gala Day.

Phone (work): 4980 2253
Phone (mobile): 0435141640
Email: [email protected]