High School Lunchtime Groups:
Our high school ministry at Dapto & Kanahooka has been continuing this year with great fire and passion by the team. Lunchtime groups had a revamp at the start of first term and given a name. Lunchtime Groups  are now called EPIC.

We have 3 main goals at EPIC.
Firstly, every Wednesday we want to be engaging our students with the good news of the Gospel of Christ.
Secondly, we aim to encourage our students to be changing their school community to be one that accepts people for who they are and that are not unaware of who Jesus is.
Thirdly, that we would create an environment at EPIC that is loving and caring.

This term EPIC has joined a global campaign called ‘Love Is Our Weapon’. This campaign encourages youth to be sharing the love of Jesus with their community by presenting them with a new ‘love deed’ or way to love people in their lives. Each week sees us challenging students at Kanahooka and Dapto High School to think about the gospel and who Jesus is to them. We then challenge them to love their friends and family and people in their schools.

1 John 4:19 says ‘We love because He first loved us…’ The whole of chapter 4 challenges us on Gods love. We aim to share this with the EPIC students.

Brekky Club:
We continue to meet another need at Dapto High School by supplying a free breakfast every Wednesday morning for students. This has been an excellent way to build relationships with students, particularly those who don’t attend EPIC or 350invasion Youth Groups. We have also been able to build relationships with the staff at school as well. The principal of DHS relayed to us, that some of his students  only get breakfast on a Wednesday because of Breaky Club.

Practical ways you can help:
We are always grateful for donatations of powdered milk, popular breakfast cereals, or $ towards the Brekky Club groceries.

Thank you:
We want to thank our church family who support us in this ministry. I also want to thank my  dedicated team, who give freely of their time for High School Ministry.

Please pray:

  • For our local high schools & the ministry to the students & staff.
  • For the great team God has raised up, that have a passion for these students & schools to know   Jesus as Lord & Saviour.
  • Financial, prayerful & physical assistance from our church family in this ministry.

John Batten,
Youth Trainee