Tabor Adelaide Student News | October 2010

IN THIS ISSUE:

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Body & Soul•

Tabor Adelaide Open Day•

Feedback from the AUQA • Audit

Letter from Lausanne•

Tabor hoodies are here!•

Tabor Alumni reunion dinner•

HUMANities CHESS GAME at • Tabor Adelaide Open day

Pastor wanted at CitySoul•

InBrief...•

Uniting Church minister Tim Hein knows a bit about Tabor. The pastor of CitySoul Uniting Church has both worked and studied at Tabor Colleges.

After completing a Bachelor of Ministry in 2001 through Tabor Victoria, Tim graduated with a Master of Ministry Studies through Tabor Adelaide in 2008, planting CitySoul Church in the CBD the same year.

Tim also met wife, Priscilla, at Tabor Victoria, and from 2002-2004 he co-ordinated the Year in the Son program there.

With Tabor as such a prominent feature in his life over the past ten years, college life was bound to leave an impression.

“Tabor Adelaide and Victoria were for me communities where I was personally valued whilst I trained for ministry. They were places of theological discovery, and of personal growth. Places where people and God’s mission were quite obviously the foremost concerns,” he shares.

“ A couple of favourite memories would have to include meeting Priscilla, and having what amounted to a ‘second conversion’ in a New Testament lecture by David McGregor in 1998. The class was on Hebrews.” Tim and Priscilla now have two daughters, Claudia and Zoe.

Tim is particularly appreciative of Tabor’s ecumenical approach.

“Although now ordained within the Uniting Church, I have appreciated Tabor’s ability to integrate the whole body of Christ,” he explains.Tim credits his time at Tabor as a positive experience that has left him with a love of learning.

“After two degrees at Tabor, I’m now about to commence some further study through Uniting College of Leadership & Theology, another excellent academic institution. Being a part of the Tabor Community has been an unforgettable experience that I will take with me.”

Tim Hein: “ I have appreciated Tabor’s ability to integrate the whole body of Christ.”

Body & Soul: Q&A with Tabor Graduate Tim Hein

Tabor Hoodies are here and ready for you to buy! Have you gotten yours yet?Recently SRC organised the production of Tabor hoodies, which have now arrived. All of the hoodies

that were pre-ordered have now been collected. If you would like to buy a hoodie, we have several available for purchase. They are $40 each. First in, fi rst served!We have a few 2XL, and

many XL, L and M hoodies. Unfortunately we do not have any S hoodies left. To buy, see Shelley in her offi ce anytime. Shelley AlexanderStudent Support Offi cer

Tabor Hoodies Are Here!

Dear Tabor Colleagues and Students,

Thanks for the interest that you have shown in the last few weeks regarding my participation in Lausanne III congress in Cape Town from the 16th to 25th October 2010. I have greatly appreciated it.

This is a very signifi cant gathering for various reasons:

Centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh conference•

The majority of attendees from 200 countries will • come from the Majority World, a reversal of previous two congresses

The historical context and the many challenges • facing the global evangelical community provides an opportunity to renew the evangelistic function of the universal church, to develop new partnerships and working relationships, and to explore new options for future ministry.

I would like to encourage you to share in this experience and to benefi t from it. There are a number of ways that this can be achieved:

Prayer, especially for safety and protection, for the •

capacity to collectively listen to God in regards to the contemporary global environment, and for personal refreshment

Be a participant in the congress through the Global • Conversation: http://conversation.lausanne.org//en

During the Congress itself, videos of each session will • be posted within the LGC to allow you to watch the sessions and then join in discussion with Christians around the world: http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/participate-online.html

Financial contribution: the Oceania region has been • designated to raise $500,000 to cover the delegates from Majority world contexts.

Tabor Adelaide is planning a post-Easter 2011 opportunity to review the Congress and its themes in an interactive and participatory manner using the video clips of the presentations by keynote speakers.

I look forward to sharing more of this journey with you on my return.

David TurnbullSenior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies

AUQA provides positive feedbackThe Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) recently conducted an audit of Tabor Adelaide, which concluded with a very affi rming feedback session with the AUQA panel. The panel members were most encouraged by the openness and positive attitudes displayed by everyone - staff, students and others - who spoke to them. It will be at least 5–6 weeks before we receive a written draft report but the panel provided verbal feedback along the following lines:

Our very positive learning community • – staff, students and Boards

The high level of pastoral care• The College’s initiatives in • undertaking external reviews of its operationsTabor’s Christian distinctive – which • the panel see as important for the sectorThe College’s progress in creating • a strong policy and committee frameworkThe College’s E-learning framework • and strategyHigh quality marketing material • and student handbooks

Personalised enrolment interviews• Links with overseas institutions• Use of intensive seminars to help • students engage with international scholarsDevelopment of a focused research • capacity

May I express my thanks to all who took part in preparing for the audit and in speaking to the panel.

In Christ,

Don OwersPrincipal

Letter from Lausanne

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Tabor Adelaide Alumni Reunion Dinner

The early years of Tabor are distinct and remembered with a great deal of joy by many people. Tabor was a place that hummed with new possibilities and had the vibrant sense of hope and vision that characterizes new adventures.

At the heart of Tabor back then were the live-in quarters at the college. Having students who lived on campus meant that there was always time after class to talk and always a table to sit around. Tea, coffee and hot milo and of course, hot vegemite toast. I was one of the students who lived in, and so have many memories of that time.

Tabor Adelaide Alumni recently held its fi rst reunion dinner. We enjoyed a Vietnamese banquet at a well-known local restaurant, and had lots of time to chat and catch up between courses. Many of the people who attended had “lived in” during those early years, and so we had a lot of catching up to do. The food was lovely and the evening went too quickly as these kinds of evening seem to do.

There were many highlights. People brought old photos and old Tabor magazines, some people turned up in

clothes that celebrated the eighties. (I wore a dress that my 12 year o1d daughter loathes because it is bright and looks like a hippie dress - I fi gured that if my daughter couldn’t stand it; it must be from sometime back then.)

Having Vanessa Chant (Barry and Vanessa Chant were the founders of Tabor) turn up unexpectedly was very lovely, as was seeing some people I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years. Laughing at the way we looked back

then, and perhaps for some of us (me at least) having a laugh about the way we look now was fun too. I think I haven’t felt that at home for a long time.

Conversation was pretty much about the memories we had from that time, but also about catching up with our current lives.

This is of course one of the highlights of a place like Tabor Adelaide. The vision and dreams of the student body at any one time are incredibly diverse, and so 30 years on the outcomes of the dreams from the fi rst years are equally diverse. It is true that not all of us fulfi ll the dream we started out with or even knew what the dream was, but thirty years later lives have been lived and stories have been created from those lives. Right now the idea of a life lived and the stories created seems to have a kind of Godliness that I would never have expected to fi nd when I was twenty years of age.

For me the most potent thing about meeting up with the people I met at Tabor all those years ago has been the way that we all live both ordinary and extraordinary lives and also that the dreams we began with are still potent!

Anyway thank you to all those who attended, and to all who sent their best wishes and apologies. We had a great night and I am looking forward to the next one! It has already been booked for 17 September 2011, so Alumni please mark it in your diaries today!

Faye Dawson Wise

From Left: Faye Dawson Wise, Andrea Julian (nee Bourne), and Becky Cook (nee Chant).

“The early years of Tabor...hummed with new possibilities and had the vibrant sense of hope and vision that characterises new adventures .”

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InBrief...WIRED PINEAPPLE INC is a TOURING Theatre company started by three of our dance music and drama graduates.

WIRED PINEAPPLE INC started performing Who Cares, a show about teenage binge drinking this term. They have now performed in four schools to about 800 students and have extended their season to include term 4.

If you get a chance, think of (pray for) WIRED PINEAPPLE INC on a Wednesday. That is the day they perform in schools.

And if you have a contact in schools (Yrs 8, 9 and 10) feel free to pass the word on

WIRED PINEAPPLE INC are still taking bookings for term 4.

http://www.wiredpineapple.com.au/ or fi nd them on facebook!

PASTOR WANTEDCitySoul is seeking an enthusiastic, capable and highly relational person to fulfi ll a 3-day a week position overseeing the operational aspects of its life with a particular focus on connecting and empowering people for missional action within the Adelaide CBD. The person will work in a team with the Lead Pastor.

Applicants should:

be theologically trained•

be skilled in managing individuals and groups•

demonstrate a practical involvement in logistical and • operational management

show an understanding and a willingness to openly • engage cultures/communities.

CitySoul is a creatively focused Christian community that strives to empower people to authentically encounter and follow Jesus within the context of contemporary culture.

For full Position Description, please contact Tom Borgas at tomborgas@yahoo.com.au

Applications close 5 November.

The School of Humanities are hosting exhibition games of Human Chess at the Tabor Adelaide Open Day on the 13th of November. The Open Day is an opportunity for the public to fi nd out more about Tabor Adelaide whilst enjoying the atmosphere and historic grounds. A Human Chess game is sure to add fun and adventure to the day.

Human Chess is a tradition dating back to Medieval times that involves people dressing up as specifi c pieces on the chess board; thus the game of chess is played with living, breathing, knights, queens and pawns.

Exhibition games will be held at 10.45, 12.00 and 1pm. The games will be played on the main courtyard with the rival opponents calling out their moves from opposing balconies. Expect to witness some truly over-dramatic death scenes, and applaud the efforts of the stretcher bearers as they carry away the fallen. This will be chess as you have never before imagined it. If you love chess or just want to have some fun, come along, cheer or jeer and applaud the valiant efforts of attacked pawns and knights as they withstand the enemy advance.

Students from the B.A. Grad. Dip. and Masters of Arts programs in Philosophy, English, History and Creative writing in the School of Humanities - along with friends, family and associates - will perform as chess pieces and players. However there are some squares still available! If you would like to be involved as a chess piece, call James on 8373 8740!

HUMANities CHESS GAME to be held at Open Day

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