Volume 1, Issue 3
News From Australia
April 8, 2010
Praises and Prayer:
 Praise for the 6 students
who have accepted Jesus.
Pray for their new lives in
Christ and the follow-up
with them. (Tiasha, Shak-
era, Renee, Daniel, “G”,
and Rebecca)
 Pray for Ben, Daniel, and
Brad as I train them to
share their faith. Pray for
openings to share the gos-
pel with random students
and/or their friends.
 Connexions: Students to
connect with God and
each other, and we would
be able to use the momen-
tum from the retreat for
the next term
Aussie-isms
“Mozzies”: Mosquitoes
“Fair Dinkum”: True, genuine
“Fairy Floss”: Cotton Candy
“Lollies”: Sweets, candy
“No Worries”: No problem at all;
generally used in place of “your wel-
come” or “yes, I will do it.”
The guys
in the
Sydney
Tower
Contact Info
Address:
29 Compton Street
North Lambton NSW 2299
Australia
Email: grady.toews@gmail.com
grady.toews@uscm.org
Blog: www.gradyt.blogspot.com
Phone : 011 61 468 642 092
Grady Toews
The Roller Coaster of Ministry
We have been hard at work
these last 6 weeks following
up the “Quick quizzes” from
Orientation Week and meet-
ing new students. Praise God
we have 1 new brother and 5
new sisters in Christ through
this first term! God has been
hard at work here. Though, it
appears girls are more respon-
sive to the Gospel message
than are Australian males. If
you have been reading my
blog posts over the last
month, you would have no-
ticed I have been frustrated by
the lack of response from the
guys. We went through the
guys’ “quick quizzes” very
quickly. We have spent most
of our time walking up to stu-
dents doing random surveys
with them. Australian stu-
Connexions
We have had a break from cam-
pus this week during the Uni-
versity’s Semester 1 break. It
has been good to rest and relax
for a few days. At the end of the
break, there is a student confer-
ence called Connexions (April 9
-11) It is a joint retreat with
some of the universities in Syd-
ney and will be held in Heath-
cote (South Sydney). We have 8
students signed up to go, which
dents are very open to talking have a good number of stu-
with us in this way. However, dents consistently coming to
they are apathetic toward Bible studies as well as our
spiritual things. They will be weekly meeting “Real Life.” I
very open about their own recently talked with several
lives but unwilling to think guys Ben, Daniel, and Brad
about the possibility of there who want to step out of their
being more to life, specifically comfort and learn to share
thinking about the after-life. It their faith. God has been con-
is hard to explain, but whether tinuing to encourage me just
we talk students with Chris- when I need it. I am learning
tian or Catholic backgrounds, to praise God no matter what
atheists, agnostics, or what- happens, whether I see results
ever else, the response tends or not.
to be the same. “Thanks, but I
just don’t have the time. Good
luck with that, though.” Frus-
trating.
All is not discouraging, how-
ever. As I mentioned, we have
had 6 new students come to
Christ! That is incredible. We
Playing games after Real Life
is a good number considering continue to build a movement
this is the first time we are here in Newcastle.
sending students from Newcas-
tle. We are looking forward to
spending time outside of cam-
pus getting to know the stu-
dents. Please pray for the stu-
dents to connect with God and
each other over the retreat. We
hope that this time helps give
momentum for the last eight
My team (plus Jennifer) in front of
weeks of the semester as we the Sydney Opera House