ASA runs for Rockingham’s healh

A team of 30 members from the Adventist Students Association (ASA) pushed two old, unused hospital beds through the streets of Rockingham to raise money for the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital on the afternoon of July 7.

The fundraising run began at the hospital and wound its way through the trade centre and by the city’s shopping centre before ending at the beach on Railway Terrace.
As they went, the university students from ASA collected donations from pedestrians and car drivers. By the end of the journey, they had collected $A1,639.60, which will be given to the Friends of the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital. A team of police constables from the Kwinana police station escorted the ASA members, together with a brigade from the Rockingham fire station.
ASA members were very pleased about the total amount that had been raised.
“I really felt like I was contributing substantially to the Rockingham community by participating in this service project,” said Paul Sexton, who is a volunteer for the St John’s Ambulance Service in Perth.
Dr Jared Watts, a graduate from the University of Western Australia Medical School, said this was one of the best fundraising bed-pushes he has been involved with.
Members from ASA continued the attitude of generosity by visiting individual patients in the medical and maternity wards at Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital on July 8 and giving them a rose and a card with a message of Christian encouragement.
“We believe that Jesus has been abundant in His generosity toward us, so we would like to reflect that attitude of giving in the way we relate to our immediate community,” says Dr Sven Ostring, ASA president and organiser of the service project.
“As Adventists, we have a fundamental belief in a holistic understanding of human nature, so that the spiritual wellbeing of people is closely integrated with their physical wellbeing. This concern for people’s health is motivated by the care that Jesus Christ had for the physical wellbeing of the people of His day,” he adds.
This community service project comes in the middle of the annual ASA Convention, which was held at Lake Cooloongup. The convention was organised by Dr Ostring, the tertiary student chaplain for the Western Australian Conference, Maree Sexton and Wendy Sexton, who is herself studying medicine at the University of Western Australia.—Adele Nash/Sven Ostring

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