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Homecoming 2016

August 26, 2016, 5.00 PM-August 28, 2016, 10.00 AM

Find your inspiration at Avondale again. Register for Avondale Alumni Association’s Homecoming 2016.

Homecoming provides an opportunity for all alumni to return to Avondale College of Higher Education to once again enjoy the Avondale experience.

Homecoming honours alumni who studied at Avondale 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years ago but is open to all former staff members and students. While honour year reunions are the focus, Homecoming also includes a concert, worship services, shared meals and a Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing breakfast.

Homecoming 2016 will honour those who served, studied or worked at Avondale in the “6” years—1946, 1956, 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996 and 2006. If you were at Avondale in any of these years, this is your Homecoming year.

Encourage your family and friends to join you for a weekend of reconnection and reminiscing.

Homecoming 2016. Designed for all alumni and friends.

Program

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

Registration
5-7 pm, Foyer, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church

Dinner
5.15-6.30 pm, Cafeteria ($12.50 per person or prepaid)

Vespers
7-9 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel
Features: 
Presentation of the Alumna, Alumnus and Young Alumnus of the Year awards and citations for the 1956, 1976 and 1996 honour years.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

Registration
9-11 am, Foyer, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church

Worship service
10 am-12 pm, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church
Features: 
Presentation of citations for the 1946, 1966, 1986 and 2006 honour years.

Lunch
12.30-1.30 pm, Cafeteria (prepaid)

Lunch: Class of 1956 and 1976
12.30-2.30 pm, College Hall (Prepaid or included with GOLD or SILVER passes)

Lunch: Class of 1966
12.30-2.30 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel (Prepaid or included with GOLD or SILVER passes)

Class of 1946 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, Horrie and Margaret Watts’s home, Cooranbong

Class of 1956 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, College Hall (Lower)

Class of 1966 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel

Class of 1976 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, College Hall (Upper)

Class of 1986 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, Foyer, Administration Building

Class of 1996 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, Alumni Room, Administration Building

Class of 2006 honour year reunion
2.30-4:30 pm, Cafe Rejuve, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church

Lecture: Dr Alden Thompson, “Jesus Hasn’t Come Yet: Uncle Arthur and a Host of Witnesses to the Rescue”
4.30-5.30 pm, Watson Hall Lecture Theatre
Dr Alden Thompson is Professor of Biblical Studies: Old Testament and Adventist Studies in the School of Theology at Walla Walla University (Washington, USA). An ordained minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Thompson is a graduate of Walla Walla College and Andrews University. Before joining the faculty at Walla Walla in 1970, Thompson pastored in Southeastern California. He received his doctorate in Old Testament and Judaic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 1975. His primary interests are the Bible, especially the Old Testament, studies of Adventist Church pioneer Ellen White, the nature of inspiration and Adventist history. He has written extensively for Adventist publications and is author of the books Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?Escape from the Flames: How Ellen White Grew from Fear to Joy and Helped Me Do It Too and Beyond Common Ground: Why Liberals and Conservatives Need Each Other.

Dinner
5.15-6.30 pm, Cafeteria ($12.50 per person or prepaid)

Concert: Hymns and Songs of Praise
7-9 pm, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church
Tickets can be pre-purchased or at the door.
Single – $20 l Double – $30 l Family – $65

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28

Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Breakfast
9-10 am, Ella Hughes Chapel (free ticket with registration)

Links

Facebook: Avondale Alumni Association

Facebook Event: Homecoming 2016

Avondale Online Store: Alumni collection

Avondale Alumni Association: Register / Update Your Details

Register for Homecoming

Details

Start:
August 26, 2016, 5.00 PM
End:
August 28, 2016, 10.00 AM
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Website:
www.avondale.edu.au/homecoming

Organiser

Avondale University
Phone:
(02) 4980 2222
Email:
events@avondale.edu.au
Website:
http://www.avondale.edu.au

Venue

Avondale College of Higher Education
582 Freemans Dr
Cooranbong, NSW 2265 Australia
Phone:
+61 2 4980 2222