Avondale student Alisha Fenwick ran a five-week evangelistic series on the Lake Macquarie campus during second semester 2009. Entitled “Why Believe?”, the twelve-meeting series challenged students and community young people to accept Christ and his way of life as the source of true fulfilment. “I aimed,” Alisha said, “to give a fresh approach to our key beliefs focused on the cross and the gospel, and to demonstrate what the teachings of the Bible reveal about the character of God.”
Alisha Fenwick. Credit: Andrea Shotter.
Students responded with comments such as “I hadn’t heard that perspective before”; “it gave me renewed confidence in my beliefs”; “it was the clearest presentation of the topic I have heard.”
Alisha is a third-year secondary teaching student majoring in Religious Studies and English. “I have a passion,” she said, “to help people understand the Bible and its relevance for today, and develop a personal, dynamic relationship with Jesus.”
During 2005 Alisha completed four months’ training in evangelism at Doug Batchelor’s Amazing Facts institute in the United States. She was then employed for two years (2006-2007) as a Bible worker in the North New South Wales Conference, studying the Bible with a number of interested people, one of whom was baptised. She ran a week of prayer at the Kempsey Adventist School followed by Bible studies, resulting in a number of decisions for Christ. She is a member of the It Is Written Institute of Youth Evangelism, which promotes and supports evangelism by young people.
While studying at Avondale, Alisha also works part-time for the New South Wales Department of Community Services running support programs for disadvantaged children.
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