Outer Eastern Prayer Breakfast 

By Kim Wearing (Yr 11 Team Leader / VCE Teacher)

6.00 am. It is early. Perhaps it is too early to be awake, dressed and at school but nevertheless a group of teachers and students were here at school ready to drive to the recent Outer Eastern Prayer Breakfast.

Joining with other schools and businesses we were treated to a delicious breakfast and enjoyed the performance of the award-winning singing group from Donvale Christian School.

It was a privilege to meet together and to pray for our community and nation. The speaker, author and presenter Simon Smart, spoke candidly about the state of our nation. People are more cynical and despairing than ever, a third of our population is affected by mental illness and the greatest killer for people under 40 is suicide. He described a nation that is grieving a profound loss of our moral centre as we abandon the Christian heritage that we were founded on. Smart challenged Christians to bring a message of life into this loss. Smart talked about the opportunity Christians had to empathise with the struggles many were having and show them how much God loves them.

Armed with a good breakfast and these words of encouragement we, along with the many others who attended the breakfast, returned to school feeling positive that we have a message of hope for those who feel that things are hopeless and that God has a way through.