With a few students in Sydney, a few in Melbourne and the rest in Bangkok, this year has been a very different kind of experience with training – especially for the Submerge program.

It started in Bangkok: all the interns met there for two weeks in February, and experienced a taste of the Bangkok and proposed Mae Sot ministry, as well as doing the first teaching block (Radical Discipleship). Then, the Sydney and Melbourne folk returned to their locations and the Bangkok students remained where they were. And the year has been whizzing by ever since!

Our students come from various locations: of the 9 who began the year, 2 were from New Zealand, one from Queensland (really from Canada just arrived in Queensland); 5 from Victoria and 1 from NSW. They have been getting lots of practical experience working in the various areas that UNOH connects to. And they have been getting some serious study and reflection time too: subjects like Christian Community Work; Theology and Practice of Community Living; The Bible and God’s heart for the Poor; and more.

And July has seen Sub-merge interns come together again for a special “Discernment Retreat” in Sydney and then Ron and Arbutus Sider UNOH Open Seminar “Shalom and the People of God”. Please keep our students in your prayers: it is a demanding and tiring year and much is expected of each of them.

If you are keen on Sub-merge 11 we are almost full. Please get your application into Jim ASAP. Jim@unoh.org

UNOH Training is more than our Sub-merge mission formation program however. It includes various other activities that we run each year to:

Help equip people to do more practical service for the poor and marginalized

Help people grow a passion for caring for the poor

Help people understand more about what UNOH is.