We have been hosting a community course for the last 30 years. We don’t know how much longer we will be able to continue to host it. So if you don’t want to miss out on this special opportunity, talk to your friends, get a group together, and make sure you register now.

The course to be held this year from December 8 to16 is a nine-day, grass-roots, face-to-face, show-and-tell, do-it-and-discuss-it intro to Christ-inspired community work. A range of inputs from people involved with Aboriginals, refugees and people with disabilities in the neighbourhood. Most of the time participants live in a joint household, but will be able to stay over night now and then with people in the community. The course includes personal reflection, interpersonal interaction, group process, cooperative organisation, whole-hearted, holistic engagement, cross-cultural dialogue, practical service and nonviolent action.

Some of the people who have done the course have gone back to work in their own communities, while others have gone on to work with Aboriginal people in Central and Northern Australia, with orphans in Bosnia, with young people in South Africa, and with poor communities in Armenia, India, Cambodia and Fiji. Some of the people who have done the course have gone back to do important support work in their families, while others have done relief work in Afghanistan and Bangladesh, community development in Colombia, non-violence training and organising in West Papua and one went as a human shield to Iraq during the war.

There is no set cost. The costs of the course are decided by the participants in a group cost-sharing work-shop, that we run as part of the course.

We have been hosting this community course for the last 30 years. We don’t know how much longer we will be able to continue to host it. So if you don’t want to miss out on this special opportunity, talk to your friends, get a group together, and make sure you register now at communityorientationcourse@gmail.com.

Dave Andrews

Pdf and jpeg versions are attached to make it easy for you to post the flyer and circulate the flyer among people in your circles.  The PDF link:https://gallery.mailchimp.com/394293d7ee5320d6e1cacc740/files/5238c88d-7767-43fb-82d6-fefda0d6a985/Waiters_Union_Community_Orientation_Course_2018.pdf

Please address enquiries to Ally Jensen: allyejensen@gmail.com 0403149566 or Dave Andrews: wecanbe.dave@gmail.com 0401669245

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