SCEE s - Servan rt - Kindnes tship - uppo p - S CONNECT ndshi ie er - Fr aract Vol 1 no 3 an Ch Christi iness - h - Happ lues - Fait - Academic Excellence - Va Content: Train up a child ... 2 From the chairman 3 Teaching Character 4 Raising Home-grown Students 5 Download God…Upload Obedience 6 Learning Centre Help 7 The Warehouse Department 9 Apologetics 10 Inawati Budiono 12 Reaching Australia for Christ 13 Fiji Student Convention 14 SET & SEW Explained 15 SCEE Services 16 Train up a child in the way he should go REDWOOD College Ministries 1 SouthEast Southern Cross ACCORD SCEE Ministry Devisions: Home Education Home Education Publications EDITORIALSouthern Cross Educational Enterprises Anna-Marie Pretorius Anna-Marié Pretorius is Train up a child in the a workshop facilitator and motivational speaker with qualifications in Theology and Business way he shouldby Mr. Slabbert go Pretorius M.D. Administration. Anna- Marié has experience Prov 22:6. Train up a child in the way he a margin of error when it was conceived in training, counselling, ministry and business management. should go: and when he is old, he will nearly 30 years ago. Zoologists now She is the wife of Slabbert Pretorius, not depart from it. suspect that Pilanesberg’s human creators the Managing Director of Southern paid too little attention to nature’s Cross Educational Enterprises. She For this SCEE article the key term from our supervision of the young elephants set became involved in Accelerated team verse is “the way”. The following is a Christian Education in 2006. As a free in its grassy plains. The transplanted true story and relevant to this article. motivational speaker her aim has been juveniles were the orphans of elephants to train, encourage and motivate staff South Africa Trains up Its Young culled by park authorities at Kruger during of Christian Schools. She is passionate the 1970s, ‘80s and early ‘90s. Now, as about understanding each school’s Elephants the young elephants start to mature, unique circumstances, assisting and facilitating improvement and Officials have introduced adult bulls to the effects of their broken home life are counselling those staff members a national park in a bid to curb juvenile becoming dangerously apparent. whose value are not always fully pachyderms that have killed rhinos recognised. Authorities are so concerned about the and terrorized visitors. ______________________________ ill-tempered elephants that in March Our mission statement: SCEE September 18, 1998|DEAN E. they introduced half a dozen adult is a ministry that offers Biblical MURPHY | TIMES STAFF WRITER bull elephants from Kruger in hopes of Educational resources to equip sorting things out. The bulls, all more people for their God ordained role PILANESBERG, South Africa — Some than 40 years old, imposed some fatherly in Life teenagers are wreaking havoc in the discipline on the upstarts, they became untamed bush here, tormenting the wild difficult probably because there were We have developed a clear Elevator animals and giving tourists a terrible speech. We are a ministry that offers: no older bulls to serve as role models. fright. Such rowdiness may sound typical “The adult bulls have put these young • A Biblical Worldview for adolescents, except these delinquents elephants into their place,” • Character enriched are running amok in one of South Africa’s • English Medium “We now know that introducing • Internationally Benchmarked most popular game reserves. They have • Individual and personalized killed rhinos. They have charged cars elephants as a group of youngsters is very • Mastery Based of safari-goers. And to make matters detrimental to their social development,” • Learning System worse, they are elephant-sized--well, to be said Markus Hofmeyr of the Madikwe reserve. “Elephants are highly social and PRAYER POINTS: precise, they are elephants. • ACARA Application intelligent animals that learn from older • Certificate Integrity processes “There appeared to be a discipline and experienced animals throughout their • Upskilling staff problem among the young elephant life” • SCEE Board Meeting bulls,” said Douw Grobler, “There is a • Global Representatives meeting, missing link in the elephant population PAUL - The way Canada at Pilanesberg. There is a need for the • All team members with health Acts 24:14. Paul said, But this I confess challenges presence of adult elephants. They act as unto thee, that after the way so worship the disciplinarians.” I the God of my fathers, believing all Editor: Anna-Marie Pretorius Graphic Design: Solet Prinsloo Pilanesberg National Park is Africa’s things which are written in the law and Proof Reading: Carolyn Pearce biggest experiment in man-made nature, in the prophets: Printing: 1Accord Publishing by SCEE ministries and like most things human, there was connect2 POSTAGE PAID Southern Cross Educational EnterprisesAUSTRALIA APOLLOS - The way We also know that Jesus is the Truth, the Life, and the WAY. It is therefore Acts 18:24-28. And a certain Jew our responsibility as parents and as namedRETURN Apollos, ADDRESS: born at Alexandria, From the P.O. Box 3102, Caboolture, Qld. 4510, Australia educators to teach children about Him an eloquent man, and mighty in the as the way. We need to help them on scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man the way, showing them how Jesus lived Chairman Mr. Trevor Phillips was instructed in the way of the Lord; and to follow His example. and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke by Mr. Slabbert Pretorius M.D. and taught diligently the things of the Jesus said: “Suffer the little children to Dear Friends in our ACE Community Lord, knowing only the baptism of come onto me” around the South Pacific. John. For he mightily convinced the We need to guide young children on Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the I welcome you to another great issue of the way to Jesus. We need to explain scriptures that Jesus was Christ. SCEE Connect. to them that He is the way and that He PARENTS - The way is the door to eternal life. Anyone or If you are reading this you will most anything that will stop little children to likely be an active participant in Learning from these two great men and come to Jesus, to get on the way and achieving the ACE goal of Reaching the raising a standard, we need to train our to go through the door, should not be children up...in the way tolerated. World one child at a time and I thank you so much for your involvement. For many CHILDREN - The way Training our children up in the way, of us it can be easy to recite the goal but should be about securing young souls, how does it look on the ground in our Our children must be trained: and set them on a way where they will everyday lives. It will never happen if we To worship God worship God and serve God’s people. To believe all things in God’s Word do nothing. On the contrary, if we are to To be fervent in spirit REDWOODTo COLLEGE take our lead from Gen 1:1, we achieve the goal we have to be active in Train up a child in the heway willshould he not should depart go:understand from and it. when Proverbs he is old,22:6 that in the To speak out publicly reaching out and we have to purpose to beginning a child is formless and the To teach the things of the Lord nurture those we reach out to. future is uncertain - let God speak and diligently create through us and let the result be Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in To be mightily convincing good. Show them the way, show then the way he should go” and many of us To use Scripture Christ in everything and train them up will attest to the benefit of the training To preach Christ in the WAY. we have received as a child ourselves. It is important however that we make sure that the life we live out correctly supports the training and instruction that we give our children. We must not be saying one thing with our lips whilst setting a different example in practice. I often say ‘more is caught than taught’. Friends, each of us have only one life in which to make a difference. I honour you all in what you are doing. With much prayer Trevor Phillips Page 3 Southern Cross Educational Enterprises Teaching Character – Raising children up in the way they should go by Dr Geoff Bongers (Director (PhD, B Sc. (Hons), CPChem, MAICD) experienced manager, technical energy specialist, SCEE board member, workshop facilitator and executive consultant. He is currently running his own consulting business Gamma Energy Technology Pty Ltd. Leads parenting classes for Growing Families Australia and using A.C.E. resources to educate their 4 children since 2003. It is an Olympic year, and I am In our family, we have used several energy giver, I will smile, I will put my constantly amazed by both methods and resources over time as our whole heart into what I do, I will not be the gifting and natural ability children grew and matured. We would discouraged by failure. of athletes as well as the typically have devotion around the We would even break down the determination and dedication to meal table after desert (children fed and definition of enthusiasm word by word their chosen sports. Being able to content…). When our children were so that we could develop a sound compete with the best doesn’t just smaller, we helped them understand understanding of all of the definition happen because we decide one the very basic definitions of a character and discuss how it would look in our day we want to – there are layers trait – typically with a tangible example own family during the coming week.