Summary of 2009 – Centre Report

OCF UniSA has been given the privilege by University of South Australia to be affiliated with the
University with strong partnership with Uni-Life over the past 2 years. OCF UniSA has been
established for a vision, which is to REACH OUT, BUILD UP and SEND BACK
international students. We basically focus on reaching out to all international students on campus,
to share with them about Jesus Christ being the Lord and the Savior, building them up as
Christians hence, preparing and equipping them as they graduate and return to their home
countries.

Even as we celebrate our 12th Anniversary this year (2009), we would want to give all our praises
and glory to Him as He has guided and blessed OCF UniSA for the past 12 years in many ways
that we couldn’t imagine. We are indeed blessed by the vast intake of international students that
were spread across 4 campuses (City East, City West, Magill and Mawson Lakes) which gives us a
huge opportunity to do MISSIONS (REACH OUT) right at our campus corridors. The close
proximity between campuses has given OCF UniSA the privilege to hold Weekly Prayer Meetings
across City East, City West and Magill Campus during lunch hour breaks.

The average weekly attendance has been around 60 to 70 people, with a good mixture of
international students from different countries and different UniSA Campuses. We hold our
meetings every Friday at 6.45pm in City East Campus at C3-16.

Our weekly program would be as following:
6.15pm – 6.45pm : Pre-OCF Prayer Meeting
6.45pm – 7.15pm  : Pre Bible Study Sharing and Prayer
7.15pm – 7.45pm  : Praise and Worship
7.45pm – 8.00pm  : Announcements
8.00pm – 9.45pm  : Bible Study
9.45pm – 10.30pm : Refreshments

OCF UniSA has the privilege to organize a few events on campus from early September 2008 to
September 2009. The events are as follows:
1. National Prayer Day 2008
Theme: Prayerfully as One – “Back to Basics”
Purpose: A day set aside to pray for ourselves, OCF Centres across Australia, countries
around the world, missionaries supported by OCF Australia.
Aim: Cultivate and encourage prayerful lifestyle with Unity in mind across OCF South
Australia. The concept of “fasting” was introduced to OCFers.

Prayer Sessions:
o Session 1: “Let’s Get It Right”
o Session 2: “Let’s Serve Prayerfully”
o Session 3: “Let’s Be Salt and Light for the Nations”
o Session 4: “Let Our Nations Rise in Prayer”
o Session 5: “Let’s Have Prayerful Generations”

2. KAIROS 2008
Theme: “Following Jesus, Leading His people”

Sessions Conducted:
o Attributes of a Leader – Joon Choong
o Following Jesus – Joon Choong
o Leading His People – Joon Choong
o Worship – Delwin
o Identifying Leaders – Raymond Lim
o How to Lead Small Groups – Fang Lok
o Strategic planning, translating God’s vision into reality – Tuck Yean
o OCF & Worldwide Missions – Tuck Yean
o Lesson from Nehemiah
**Special thanks to all the speakers mentioned above, Wong Wei Jin, Sumihiro Tanaka, Aaron Wong, Emi Kato and many others who have organized Kairos 2008.

3. Combine Summer Program 2008
Three OCF centre in SA would come together during the summer holidays to have time for
prayer, praise and worship, bible study and fellowship. As most of the International Students
would be away for holidays or back at their home countries, those who would be around
during summer would find Summer Program an opportunity for them to learn and grown
from the word.

Bible Study Sessions:
o Obedience – Abraham
o Perseverance – Paul
o Encouragement – Barnabas
o Compassion – Jesus
A huge thanks to Moses Koh and Wong Wei Jin for overseeing the2008 Summer Programme, Centre Reps and
many others who helped out to make it a fun summer break.

4. Multi-Cultural Night 2009

This event functions as an avenue for evangelistic to welcome new International Students to
Australia. The night themed around different culture and nations with the idea in mind to
respect and enjoy different cultures and countries hence introducing Australia’s culture and
norms to new students. The night is double up with food, games and performance from
different countries. Overall, this even has attracted not only students but parents who
accompany their children to Australia.

**A huge thanks to Danny Wong and your team for organizing this amazing event. Thanks for the hard work in preparation for the whole night.

5. Orientation Program
o O-Week 2009

We were given the opportunity to set up booths in all 4 UniSA Campuses across
a week in mid-February 2009. This gives us an avenue to do outreach and
welcome new international students to our ministry with a taste of friendship,
fellowship and Christianity. We have decided to go all out and spend our
resources to reach out to students through bookmarks, calendars, pens, etc that
would sow seeds of Christ’s love.

o Welcome Night 2009 – 6th March 2009

We were able to generate a huge list of students that were interested to know
more and join us through O-Week. All of them were informed and contacted
about Welcome Night 2009 through text messages and email. A huge turnout for
the night was a reflection of God’s blessing. It was a night where we had games,
praise and worship, presentations, food and fellowship.

o Explore Race 2009

OCF UniSA has the tradition to host a day of fun and outing through exploring
our beautiful city of Adelaide. This fellowship event is a replication of hit TV
reality show Amazing Race, but at a smaller scale. This event proved to be
effective to help international students get used to walking around Adelaide City
hence knowing the best places and deals that would suit students’ tight budget for
expenses.

2. Prayer, Praise & Worship Night 2009

The aim and purpose of this event was to provide a time set aside to come together as a
centre to pray for our nation, our family, our friends, our selves etc hence incorporating
praise and worship for the whole night. It’s a night that we offer ourselves to God to
refresh and reconnect our relationship with Christ, purely personal and God.

3. Evangelistic – Christmas in July (C.I.J.) 2009

OCF UniSA has the tradition of hosting Christmas in July as an evangelistic night where
the message of why Christ was born is being shared. This event has all the elements of
Christmas including Christmas decoration, songs, food etc. This event functions as a
Welcome Night to all international students who arrived during the mid-year intakes. We
need to Praise the Lord for the many new friends that He brought to us through this event
hence allowing us to sow seeds into each of their lives.

Our sincere acknowledgement and thanks to C.I.J. 2009 team for organizing it.

4. OCF SA Combine Meetings

As a state, OCF SA General Committee saw a great need for UNITY between OCF UniSA,
OCF Adelaide University and OCF Flinders University. Therefore, with UNITY in mind, we
tried our best to ensure SA Combine Meetings would be an avenue for OCFers to get to know
one another and build healthy relationships with one another.

Our SA Combine Meetings for Year 2009:

o Multi- Cultural Night
o OCF Australia Vision: Part 1 (Reach Out) – Walk the Talk by Aunty Lynn (OCF UniSA).
o Apologetics – Rev. Stephen Spence from Tabor College, Adelaide.
o Evangelistic Night 2009 – Louie Giglio’s “Alive” series by Raymond Lim and Nash Rodrigues.
o OCF Australia Vision: Part 2 (Build Up) – “Teach the Walk” by Gary Tucker (OCF Flinders).
o OCF Australia Vision: Part 3 (Send Back) – Walk the World by Tuck Yean (OCF Adelaide Uni).

5. Life Beyond Uni 2009

These sessions are being organized to cater for the needs of final year students who would be
returning back to their home country or out to the working environment. With the partnership of
International Student Ministry (ISM) of Austral Asian Community Church (AACC), OCFers are
able to equip themselves with the knowledge and spiritual foundation to face life beyond
university.

2009 Sessions:
o Local church integration – Dr. Peter Lim
o Godly relationships – Dr. Lufee Wong
o God’s Word & God’s Will – Dr. Yong Tuck Yean
o Working life – Yong Kah Wai

Thank you so much ISM Team for taking time off on Saturdays to help out and conduct the sessions. Special
thanks to Tuck Yean, Celine and Justin Chai for overseeing Life Beyond Uni and making the partnership with
AACC – ISM possible.

6. Leadership Retreat 2009

This event was organized to replace previous OCF SA leadership trainings that occur every 2
to 3 months in a year. This leadership retreat function as a day where leaders come together,
setting aside one Saturday fully to be trained, equipped and empowered to be leaders of OCF.
This year we were honored to have 3 notable speakers outside the ministry of OCF to cover
topics such as Spiritual Discipline, Discipleship and Leaders as Shepherd, Strategist and
Servant.

7. Leadership Huddle 2009

A training initiated and suggested by Raymond Lim to the SA Leadership. Ashley Chua and
Timothy Lim were selected to be part of this training to equip them to be leaders of OCF.

8. Easter Camp 2009

9. Operation Encounter 2009

10.Upcoming Events for Year 2009
o National Prayer Day (NPD) 2009 (5th September 2009)
o Kairos 2009 (26th & 27th September 2009)
o 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM), Malaysia (7th to 9th December 2009)
o 50th Annual Convention, Malaysia (9th to 13th December 2009)

**The OCF UniSA Committee 2008/2009 would like to give our sincere, grateful and
special thanks to…

¨ Uncle Vincent and Aunty Evelyn Lee
¨ Aunty Lynn
¨ Rev. Stephen Spence (Tabor College)
¨ Aunty Merrilyn
¨ Nash Rodrigues
¨ Members of EXCO 2009
¨ OCF Adelaide Uni Committee 2008/2009
¨ OCF Flinders Uni Committee 2008/2009
¨ Austral Asian Community Church – ISM Team
¨ Easter Camp 2009 Committee
¨ Uni-Life Team
¨ Wycliffe Australia – Aileen
¨ Jane Ng
¨ Esther Goh
¨ Dr. Yong Tuck Yean
¨ Dr. Peter Lim
¨ Tan Su Ling
¨ Raymond and Elaine Lim
¨ Rev. Clinton Waddle (Church of Christ, Modbury)
¨ Norm Reed (CRC, SA)
¨ Kevin and Brenda Hughes (CRC, SA)
¨ OCF SA Multicultural Night 2009 Team
¨ Christmas In July 2009 Team
¨ KAIROS 2008 Organizers
¨ National Prayer Day 2009 Organizers
¨ Pastor Moses Khor
¨ OMF Australia – Steve Paterson
¨ Deborah Tan
¨ Jade Wong
¨ Carol Lim
¨ Celine Chee
¨ Delwin and Gillian Keasberry
¨ Laza
¨ Debra Ann Gonzago
¨ Shirley Tan
¨ Melanie Wong
¨ Operation Encounter 2009 Organizers
¨ Amanda Chua (Girls Ministry)
¨ Norman Seah (Guys Ministry)
…and many others whom we have not mentioned or stated in this report.
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