On Tuesday 16th Feb we had a service to welcome Phil Townsend as the new director of our organisation (which covers Indigenous Australia and East Timor). We are very thankful for Alan Rogers who was the "interim" director for over two years, and are excited to see how God uses Phil. Alan was very pleased to hand over responsibility for the director's email address!
The service went perfectly, and I especially loved that it was a blend of two cultures. Each short speech followed on seamlessly from the last, but instead of a speech by an Aboriginal translator, as we had planned, some of the Nungalinya students sang This is the Day in their various languages, and did a couple of dances (for which we naturally had to wait 5 minutes for the music to be sorted out). They even got us all up and dancing! A perfectly apt celebration.
Give thanks for Alan's willingness to continue as the interim director while we looked for someone to take over. Give thanks for Phil Townsend, and pray for him as he settles into the role. (He will be working from Adelaide.)
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