FISH (fellowship in sharing hope)

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FISH is a fellowship group that has been in the planing for a while now but today became a reality.

after some frined of mine went to a scripture union camp entitled traning week they along with students from other schools in the genral area decided that we needed an interschool fellowship and suport with in the christian comunities.

today we had our first meeting held in my schools new chaple... we had people from 3 other schools come, one other christian school and 2 state schools. which was really awsome.

we started the afternoon with an afternoon tea in the chaples cafe and then had a worship service. and for the first time since that chaple has been in use ( about 10 weeks) that it was actually eing used for its proper purpose, like yeah we are a christian (lutheran) school and we have weekly year level chaples i still in all of them had never felt like it was propper, mainly because considering we are a christian school there is alot of people who arnt actually christians in the school, and specially in my grade we are a major minority. so it was great just to have that atmosphere of knowing that everyone that was in there actually cares about what we were doing and realy wanted to be there, and wasnt just there because it was somthing that our school routine made us.

we then split into small groups of people from our own school and talked about what kinda things we can do in our school to spread the gosple and to really make a diffrence and what we thought were some of the problems that were holdign us back with in the comunities, some of the things that were brought up were

- that we are a minority group inmost schools

- that especially in the "christian" schools we dont actually know who the other chrisitans are

- that the people we try and talk to about our faith are so set in their view and opions and dont listen

there was alot more than that but unfortunatly i cant think of them at the moment

these types of meetings are going to be held monthly to try and help each other out, especially our brothers and sisters in non christian schools that dont have the chance to speak as freely as we do and we would all apericate your prayers in order for us to make what we are doing a sucess, in making a diffirance in our school and i prase god for the courage he has given to the 3 main people that i know have put alot of time and effort into this project.

if anyone has ideas as to what we can do to help make a diffrence and keep each other going it would be greatly appreciated

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if anyone has ideas as to what we can do to help make a difference and keep each other going it would be greatly appreciated

Prayer, Bible, Prayer, Bible, Prayer....

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thanks