Connections Archive

Steev Davis
Editorial assistant

More than 70 Avondale College students were ready to paint faces and supervise sack races and soccer games. Two jumping castles swayed in the gentle breeze. The only thing missing? Children.

The urban STORM Co at Cooranbong Park should have been swinging into gear at 10 am this past Sunday. Everyone was waiting, everything was ready, but not many children came.

Organisers say the children's club was well advertised. "Every school in the area, except Adventist schools, received information about it," says Dr Bruce Manners, senior minister of the Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist church. He notes the poor weather--Sunday was cool and cloudy--could have been a factor.

There were highlights, though, one being the number of students who volunteered to participate. The STORM Co was the first opportunity this year for the students to meet as a group. "The day wasn't unsuccessful," says Manners. "It brought all 70 leaders together, and that's important."

This was also the first STORM Co held in the Cooranbong and Morisset area. It will not be the last, with the children's club now becoming a monthly event.

Credit: Gilmore Tanabose

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