“Model” students impress

Gideon Kang, Adam Tonkin, Bekezela Sibanda, Laufilitoga Ah You, Brian Lauratet and Joseph Mapour (pictured, left to right) are the first Avondale College students joining a United States-based ministry taking Seventh-day Adventists from developed countries to evangelise in developing countries.

They may not be the last.

ShareHim’s David Dobias describes the six as “model” students—he managed the group in Zimbabwe.

“I was blessed and impressed.” So impressed—3000 people attended the students’ meetings; 250 were baptised—David wants to visit. “They are a credit to your school,” he writes. “Keep on doing what you have done with these fine young men.”

Destination Solomons for mission-minded nurses

Lecturer Sonja Frischknecht (pictured, left) and these final-year nursing students leave tomorrow for Atoifi Adventist Hospital in the Solomon Islands.

They’ll spend two weeks there.

Sonja will teach at the nursing school and with the students teach primary health care to members of the community and work in the hospital.

On her return, she’ll write a thesis for a master’s about the effectiveness of clinical learning experiences for undergraduate nurses in developing countries. Sonja hopes the degree may enable other nursing students to complete mission trips as part of their study.