NEWS
22.4.05
See you at the pole is an Australian wide event, where Christians get together around the flag pole to pray for their school. This is completely student led. For more info check out www.syatpaustralia.com
For more info on starting a regular prayer group see Virus below.
Student Focus (Years 7 & 8)
Student focus is a weekly lunchtime program run by a number of the youth group leaders in the below high schools. We run fun short games (many involving food and a lot of mess) and give out lots of lolly and chocolate prizes.
| Highvale | Tuesday Lunchtimes Room P1 |
|---|---|
| Mount Waverley Junior Site | Wednesday Lunchtimes Rm 502 |
Breakfast Club
Every Wednesday morning at Mt Waverley Junior site, we will serve you breakfast in the home eco room! So rock up to school early and hang out with Tam, Simon, Emily, Catherine and Sarah.
Senior High Stuff (Years 9 - 12)
Our focus as youth workers is to be a powerful and vital presence in the school, offering positive role models, someone to talk to when life is tough, building relationships, and simply serving the school anyway we can.
We may not be in your school but why not suss out someone in your school with a similar role. If you dont have any youth workers, why not focus on being a positive role model yourself! Finally, we would love to hear of anyways we can support you in your school. Why not email us at fuel@sb.org.au,we would love to hear from you.
Virus
What is Virus?
Virus is a student led prayer group, inviting Christians to join together to pray for their school.
Why?
There are so many aspects in school life such as lonely students, busy teachers and stressed out students that need our prayer.
Coming to Virus also gets the day started on a positive note and helps you focus on the important things in life.
How did it get it's name?
Virus got it's name because a group of students wanted to infect their school with Jesus Christ's love.
How do I get a VIRUS started?
Yes, Virus is completly student run so it's up to you to get it started but our youth leaders would really love to support you through it.
Here are some basic steps that will help make it an effective VIRUS:
1. Get together with one or two other Christians in your school and decide what day is best.
2. Organise a time to meet with your principle to get permission to run VIRUS.
3. Word of mouth is the best communication, but there may be many Christians in your school that you dont know about so it is good to do some public announcements. ie funky posters or 'VIRUS business cards'
4. Plan what will happen at VIRUS outside of VIRUS, you dont want VIRUS to become school meetings discussing what to do.
5.The best time for VIRUS is before school! Why? You are not excluding yourself from your friends at lunch time, it gets you started really well for the day, and it shows your commitment.
6. As a leader or co-leader plan each VIRUS beforehand. An example might be:
5 minute pep talk. What is the focus of prayer today?
10 minutes praying for a certain topic, vary it up a little. For example pray in pairs, as a group, or outside.
2 minute challenge, for example "Today tell 10 people they rock", or "encourage a teacher you dont like!"
All the best - looking forward to hearing your VIRUS stories.