One day he asks, ‘If you crept into God’s (imaginary) office tonight and found asticky note on the wall about you, what do you think you would find?’ A girl putsup her hand and says, ‘Amazing!’

At another school, a student stops Peter in the hallway and says, ‘Sir, there’s a boyI know who wants to talk to you about church.’

It was a blessing to meet a staff member who told Peter how much she has readand re-read the book Beautiful Quest, which Peter published in 2015.Peter has introduced—staff who have questions—to the biographies of people likeCorrie Ten Boom.Peter always asks the class to be quiet while he asks for a blessing, and—especially over the last year—it has included prayer for rain. So, he’s at one of themore remote schools, it’s  a steaming hot day and they’re upstairs with the dooropen. Outside, a thunder storm rolls in with a heavy downpour. The boys all raceout to the balcony to watch and the loudest (most challenging) boy in the class,yells out three times in a row, ‘Thank you God for the rain!’

Then there’s a new class with a lot of students; it gets so rowdy that Petermessages for the deputy to come, which he never has to do. She comes down andthey’re soon pulled into order—but she stays and helps for the rest of the lesson.Then, just on bell time, a rebel boy at the back of the room—who is desperate tohave  go at the challenge table—reads his bible verse out. Peter asks him to read itagain. ‘Don’t fool yourself,’ the boy reads, 'bad friends will destroy you!’

In another school, the teacher stops Peter at the end of the class and says, ‘Whatyou said about having hope because you have been changed and are beingchanged by God’s Spirit; I once read a verse in the letter of Romans, which says,“Suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character and characterproduces hope.” It changed my life.’

Then there are the many students who call out to Peter as he walks alongcorridors and across school yards—and Peter’s thanking God so much for them

One day, Peter was about to go on a long walk to the other end of the school forhis next class when a teacher called out to him—‘No, it’s sorted, we changed therooms so that you can use the same room!’Thank you so much for sharing in, and bearing, our debt of love.

Encouraging snapshots… Peter loves asking creative questions and the natural conversation moments...

(1Cor 15:33)

and for your prayers, because some of these days are really hard!

in 2019, class Christmas

In 2020, Peter and Penny

Work during the SRE

26 classes: 6 high schools.

Numbers are...

Peter has completed all

Thanksgiving for new

For the Word to bear fruit

Classes have been looking

Being able to share

Prayer...

parties were great!

are grateful to Holy Trinity

Dubbo and the Bathurst

and Armidale dioceses for

their faithful prayers and

accreditation support.·     

On-Pause (COVID-19) season

will be scaled back, but

Peter will still be doing

lesson preparation,

facilitating online lessons,

online or phone catchups

with supporters and boards.

Coonamble 55; Baradine, 45;

Dubbo, 180; Narromine, 45;

Coonabarabran, 24.

seven modules of SRE opd

donors to Castlereagh board.

via Think Faith curriculum:

Bush Scripture version).

at the bible, the big story

and Jesus' mission; years

8—10 at Jesus’ mission.

Kingdom life with our adult

children—some just down

the road—has been a

blessing. A new grandchild

arrives at Easter.

Bush Scripture

PETER & PENELOPE VOLKOFSKYFAM I L I E S & SCHOOL S : APR I L 2 0 20