OCF Highlights

Kairos

The annual combined OCF SA leadership workshop/retreat. It's wonderful to know that no matter how many workshops/retreats I attend, no two are ever the same. There's always something to learn, and you always gain something different, even if you listen to the same talk twice. You see it from a different angle, and God always shows you something new each time that is relevant to the things we're going through during that season in life. Or maybe I'm just a slow learner :)

One of the things that most people remember would probably be 'Building Noah's Ark', a game that required everyone to focus on their own small tasks, while working with the bigger picture in mind, and cooperate together to ultimately complete the larger task. An amazing game that highlighted the generational perspective, vision, unity, and integrity... I loved how everyone took ownership of the tasks at hand, and the enthusiasm as we all pitched in to contribute our bit.

Photos available here .

Let's remember the ark and the lessons it taught... But more importantly, let's always remember He who was behind it all.

And my heart beams with joy, when I see young birds test their wings and fly...

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OCF SA 50th Anniversary Dinner

Seeing so many different generations of OCF'ers coming together and celebrating 50 years of God's work through OCF in Adelaide, and listening in quiet wonder while the founder of OCF spoke and reminisced, it's quite an awesome experience I won't easily forget. I think it's also stirred up a passion and excitement in some people... :)

OCF Flinders celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year too! Isn't that a cause for double celebration?? :)


Although the dress code was supposedly 'smart casual', many people took the opportunity to dress up, and the guys from Flinders all turned up in suits! Pity they're standing at the back of the group photo though... Hee hee

More photos available here .

We ended the night with a quiz, and it was amusing to see the competitive spirit between the groups, even between the older members. To quote one person that night, 'some things never change'.
*grin*
Yeah, I guess some things will never change... :)

And having celebrated 50 years of the earlier generations' legacies, what will our legacy be?


We're pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who've gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God's sustaining grace

Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who've gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness
Passed on through godly lives

*Chorus :
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we've left behind
May the clues that they discover
And the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them
To the road we each must find

- Find Us Faithful by Steve Green