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The Year 13 team of 16 students and 4 leaders has now left for Africa, and will continue to serve there for the next two weeks. It was a wonderful joy to farewell the team, and to see the excitement in their eyes as they prepared to experience a world away from their own.

Read about their trip in these www.sydneyanglicans.net articles:

Lucky 13 Off To Africa (posted 30 June)

Teenagers Welcome Orphans Into New Family (posted 10 July)

For full details of Year 13, visit http://www.year13.youthworks.net

Today I prepared a series of prayer points for the Year 13 mission trip to Uganda, Africa. It is very exciting to think of how God will use this team to promote his gospel in Africa.

It is also exciting to think how he will use the trip to strengthen and build the lives of the 18 year olds on the trip.

The team leaves Sydney on Sunday afternoon for their trip to Kampala via Dubai. It will be sad to say goodbye to them, knowing that they will experience much as a team, and be thoroughly changed upon their return. But it is a joy to know how much will happen in their relatively young lives in the next month.

It is hard to believe that Year 13 has finally begun! After much preparation, the year has begun with 17 students. Read about our Orientation Houseparty in this interview with Ian Mu, one of our students at sydneyanglicans.net

To find out more about Year 13 visit www.year13.youthworks.net or send me an email.

Read article online at www.sydneyanglicans.net, click here. To discuss the article, visit the forums at sydneyanglicans.net.

Listen to Sydney FM103.2 this Sunday the 4th of September at 10pm and you can spend half an hour listening to a recent chat I had with Phil Lamb. It was a nice time to talk through my life and my ministry… and the only strange thing was that it was being recorded for broadcast!

We talked about TWIST, Year 13 and my youth ministry training. We also spent a lot of time talking about the place of music in church.

If you’re not in the Sydney Metropolitan area, visit www.fm1032.com.au on Sunday night and listen to the interview in real time streaming.