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Correspondence

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Charlie Chaplin Experience

Congratulations on your part in bringing Charlie Chaplin to Cooranbong (“Tramp fans,” Connections Vol 26 No 23). I live in Dora Creek and have a great collection of Chaplin films. Five years ago, I returned to my old home town of Manchester in England. Manchester is the home of the Halle Orchestra. I attended one of the orchestra’s concerts in the city’s The Bridgewater Hall. The concert featured the screening of Chaplin’s film The Goldrush, with the original music played by the orchestra. The memories of the concert—the highlight of my tour to the United Kingdom—still brings tears to my eyes. I would love to see a re-enactment in Australia, perhaps even in Cooranbong.

Bernard Carroll
wp.avondale.edu.au/news

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Fact: Avondale’s Got Talent

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Winners share $1500 in prize money

Vocalist Nadine Keioskie, Nigel King of Variety Bucket and guitarist Luke Turner-Mann were among the students competing for $1500 in prize money at Avondale’s Got Talent on Saturday. First place getters in each of four categories received $150. The roll call of winners: Variety Bucket (“Dance”—the audience also judged the troupe as “Crowd Favourite”); saxophone duo Lachlan Campbell and Jared Smith (“Instrumental”); Leigha Tew (her spoken word presentation, “Stranger Danger,” won the “Other” category); and Dayna Petrie (“Vocal”). Credit: Erin Entermann.

Vocalist Nadine Keioskie, Nigel King of Variety Bucket and guitarist Luke Turner-Mann were among the students competing for $1500 in prize money at Avondale’s Got Talent on Saturday. First place getters in each of four categories received $150. The roll call of winners: Variety Bucket (“Dance”—the audience also judged the troupe as “Crowd Favourite”); saxophone duo Lachlan Campbell and Jared Smith (“Instrumental”); Leigha Tew (her spoken word presentation, “Stranger Danger,” won the “Other” category); and Dayna Petrie (“Vocal”).
Credit: Erin Entermann.

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Lecturer helps lead praise for peoples’ choir

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
A performance by an Avondale lecturer’s orchestra and the first massed people’s choir has raised $2000 for a community centre in Warburton, Victoria. The Institute of Worship Orchestra, directed by Dr Lyell Heise and including members of Paul Woodward’s Gospel Big Band, accompanied a 200-voice congregational choir during the worship service and afternoon concert at the local Seventh-day Adventist Church. The money will support the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s Redwood Community Centre. Credit: Barry Hill.

A performance by an Avondale lecturer’s orchestra and the first massed people’s choir has raised $2000 for a community centre in Warburton, Victoria. The Institute of Worship Orchestra, directed by Dr Lyell Heise and including members of Paul Woodward’s Gospel Big Band, accompanied a 200-voice congregational choir during the worship service and afternoon concert at the local Seventh-day Adventist Church. The money will support the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s Redwood Community Centre.
Credit: Barry Hill.

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The missing chapter on revival

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

And how its other-focus must confront us

Nathan Brown
Master of Arts (research) student
Avondale College of Higher Education

Nathan Brown 75 75 pxRevival: I’ve been following the theme through denominational publications over the past few years. I’ve been looking for a particular Bible passage—Isaiah 58—but I’ve been disappointed.

The chapter’s ripe for consideration. These religious people—the people of God, no less—are seeking God with fervor. They worship Him daily and “delight” to know His ways (verse 2). They fast and repent, but God seems unmoved and unresponsive, even silent.

Then, speaking through Isaiah, God responds in a way that confronts them and must confront us. The kind of revival I want from you, says God, is to serve those who need your help. Release people from the things that hold them back. Help the oppressed find freedom. Feed the hungry. Provide shelter to those who are homeless and those who need it. Share clothes with those who don’t have enough (6, 7). Even if we have only a little, God calls on us to be generous to those around us.

It’s remarkable: the spirit of Jesus and the heart of faithfulness to God are so other-focused that even our spiritual renewal is not about us, reaching out instead to the poor, the oppressed, the hurting and the hungry.

In Isaiah 58:8–12, God promises blessings in response to this kind of revival. In effect, He says if the people are less focused on themselves, they’ll find Him working with them and through them to bring healing and restoration. This is the revival the people are seeking, a renewal of their hope and purpose as found in God with a real sense of His presence in their lives and community.

We don’t know how these first hearers of Isaiah’s call to this truer revival responded. But as Jesus confronted the same issues (see Matthew 23), perhaps there are always those who are content with mere religion, while others hear the call to revival in a way that truly changes us and those around us. Perhaps that’s why Isaiah’s voice still echoes and challenges us today.—Adventist World

Nathan is book editor at Signs Publishing Company.

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