Happy Christmas!

Thank you so much for your continued encouragement. We appreciate your support enormously and depend so much on your prayers for us. 

Our most recent semester has just ended with a wonderful graduation celebration at the end of November. We began the semester in lockdown followed by a brief interlude of face-to-face teaching. We then headed into Melbourne’s second long lockdown, which earned us the unwanted prize of most locked down city in the world. As a staff team at St Andrew’s Hall, we saw this coming so Rachel and I moved into the new buildings to live in a household bubble with our students. Initially we thought this would be for about 12 days. It turned out to be 12 weeks! Schools and childcare facilities were closed so we ended up looking after the five children who were part of the community so that their parents could go to class. Our other teaching staff colleagues were at home and taught on Zoom. My classes were in-person, which reduced the overall Zoom burden for our students.