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“Arkun,” Cambodia

Friday, March 3, 2023

Eighteen of our students have returned from a service learning trip to the southeast Asian kingdom that offered most of them cross-cultural professional experience.

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It’s an adventure

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Summer starts early in the Northern Territory. This is what our students discovered during school placements that introduced them to the ministry of teaching in a new culture.

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Top End teachers

Thursday, August 5, 2021

It’s fortuitous. With COVID-related restrictions causing complications along the eastern seaboard, eight of our teachers-in-training find themselves in Darwin completing professional experience placements.

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What Tonga taught us

Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Instagram post might read, “Experiencing a slice of summer on a bamboo-clad island in the Pacific while earning academic credit.” Twenty-four of our students did just that when they travelled to Tongatapu in Tonga so they could complete one of their placements. Ministry of Teaching Overseas coordinator Dr Jason Hinze tells more in this interview.

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MOTO milestone

Friday, February 14, 2020

A service learning initiative offering teacher education students at Avondale professional experience in another culture chalks up its 21st trip this month. And for the first time, a Pacific island country is the destination.

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My MOTO mission

Friday, October 21, 2016

Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment in Bodhgaya, a town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The Director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bihar, Pr Alex Dang, describes the region as the “graveyard of Christianity.” But I presented an evangelistic series with Alex at the AoZora school near Bodhgaya. The result: the planting of a Seventh-day Adventist church at the school.