Adele Nash
Recommendations from family and friends based on enjoyable experiences drew Adele Nash to Avondale College. And the timing of the introduction of the Bachelor of Arts degree in communication just a few years before her Year 12 graduation from Nuriootpa High School in South Australia: “perfect.”
Adele Nash: the 2014 Homecoming honour year honouree for 2004.
Adele began creating and sharing news about the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the message of hope after graduation, becoming editorial assistant at Signs Publishing Company. She edited The Edge young adult magazine in addition to her responsibilities with the church in the South Pacific’s newsmagazine Record. Adele continues in a publishing role at the church’s North New South Wales Conference, to which she moved in 2010. She began as communication and marketing assistant and is now communications coordinator.
Sharing good news about local churches and the members of those churches is one of Adele’s passions and a blessing in her life. “It’s important for people to see that Adventists are doing some amazing things, and it often helps inspire others to make positive contributions to the world around them,” she says.
Adele has won two Australasian Religious Press Association Awards—a silver in the “Best Article Applying Faith to Life” category in 2010 for a feature about the Bird familyone family’s Black Saturday bushfire experience and a highly commended in the “Best News Item” category in 2009 for a report entitled “Leaders support targeting binge drinking.”
The interview for the “From the ashes” feature was “one of the most interesting—and challenging—experiences I’ve had,” says Adele. The family were dealing with the loss of their home and the loss of their neighbours, who had died in the fire. “They had such an amazing, strong and unshaken faith in God. Their focus on looking for hope and being sure they would find it impressed me.”
The class of 2004 honours Adele Nash for the quality of her reporting of Seventh-day Adventist news, particularly for how it inspires others in their faith.—Bianca Reynaud, public relations assistant, Avondale College of Higher Education
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