Christians@Wits Network 2008

2008 Mission Schedule

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There is a great line-up of events planned for this year's mission. These events are:

Friday 1 August - 6-9pm - Great Hall
Prayer Rally
- Band ::harbourlight::
- Speaker: Pastor Francis Gabriel
- Wits Gospel Choir

Saturday 2 August - 9:30am-2:30pm - Diggs Fields
Sport's Day
- 7-a-side soccer, netball and touch rugby
- Register your team with any Christians@Wits society

Monday 4 August - 1:15-2:15pm - SS1
"Are Jesus & the Bible still relevant"
- Speaker: Pastor Peter Gabriel

Tuesday 5 August - 6-8pm - MPT
Bible Quiz
- Come and have fun, and get your Bible knowledge tested. Just arrive by 6pm at MPT to get involved

Wednesday 6 August - 1:15-2:15pm - SS1
"Love, sex and lasting relationships"
- A talk on an important issue facing young people

Thursday 7 August
1:15-2:15pm - SS1
"Historic links between Israel and Christianity"
- Presentation by Christian Friends of Israel

7-8:30pm
Illusionist: Adrian Van Vactor
- An inspirational, entertaining & refreshing journey into the supernatural

Friday 8 August - 7pm - Great Hall
Closing Rally
- Band ::harbourlight::
- Illusionist: Adrian Van Vactor
- Voice of Glory Choir

Christians@Wits - What it's about...

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Wits University is characterised by: being a breeding ground for tomorrow's leaders, by having many people who are passionate about serving Christ, but, by also being filled with many people who do not know Christ. Finally, it is a place where there are over 20 Christian societies and there was limited Christian unity. But, now the unity among the societies is growing.

Over the next few months everyone involved will be building up to a major week of events occurring from the 1st to the 8th of August. However, this will not be an isolated week of events. There will be discipleship training before and after the mission. New converts will be guided into societies where they can be cared for. The infrastructure that is created during this year will be utilised for years to come to create future missions, such that Wits can be influenced for a long time.

During the week of events there will be guest speakers, celebrities giving testimonies, worship sessions, talks on important topics and much more. It will reach out to students and staff in a variety of ways to draw people to hear the word of God, no matter what end of the spectrum people come from.

Wanna change Wits?!

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The mission will need many people and societies to be involved with it, to really make a big impact. If you or your society is not involved yet, but you would like to join in, then please contact us at witschristians@gmail.com. The working committees listed below are always in need of a few extra hands so let us know if you want to be a part of any of them.

Prayer
Publicity
Practical arrangements
Finance and fund-raising
Discipling, evangelism and training
Music
Social development

African Enterprise and Wits

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African Enterprise (AE) helped establish the Christians@Wits Network in 2007 with a very successful unifying mission. In August 2007 around 100 events were held in the space of one week on the various campuses, with events such as musical performances, prayer rallies, celebrity testimonies and much more.

AE is now continuing to support all that is happening at Wits and will try ensure that an effective Christian network is active on the campus for many years to come. There will be major missions every 3 years with smaller missions occurring in between.

Prayer@Wits

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Prayer = us talking with God.
God can do more in a second than we can do in our entire lifetime... so, let us bring all our needs for Wits and for the mission before God.

Write in the comments box any prayer requests that you might have for Wits, for your own needs, or if you are in the organising committees and need help with anything for the mission. All these requests will go through to the numerous prayer committees that are in operation across Wits.

PRAYER MEETINGS
In preparation for everything there will be large amounts of prayer. Please come and join in the prayer meetings happening on Wednesdays from 13h15-14h15 in Richard Ward Room 225.

Have any questions about God?

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Do you have questions that you want answered about Christianity or God? Why not put these questions in the comments box and we will try help you with any question that you might have.

We want to hear from you...

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Do you have any inventive ideas of Christian events that could occur on Wits campus during the 2007 mission, or in the future? What are they? Let us know in the comment field below. Maybe your idea could be the start of something big or could give organisers a good insight into what students need.

What do you think should the Christian societies at Wits should be doing more of on campus? What is good, and what is not with regards to what the socities are already doing? Are there ways things could be improved? We want to hear your open and honest comments - and you can put these thoughts in writing in the comments box too.

Quarterly Meeting

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The proposed dates for combined quarterly services for all christian societies are:

1st Block - 29 February
2nd Block – 18 April
3rd Block – 1 August
4th Block – 19 September

All these meeetings will take place on Friday nights from 5-6pm in the Great Hall.

The proposed dates for next year's mini mission are: 4-8 August.

If any society has problems with any of these dates please let us know such that adjustments can be made where possible.