NCC asks, “Doowiwanna?”

Noosa Christian College (NCC) students on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast enjoyed a week of Christian fellowship with a program run by the school for its students called “Doowiwanna.”
“Doowiwanna” is a Strine translation for “Do I wanna know Jesus?” and children at the school were encouraged to ask it of themselves in the interactive program run each morning. This included a variety of skits, puppetry, musical items by the school worship band and the school choir.
Each morning guest speaker Sally Hall challenged the students, teachers and visitors to ask themselves, “Doowiwanna make some good choices for my life?”
The audience moans of “Oh, disgusting” and “Yuk” could almost be heard out on the street as she likened smoking to “sucking in ash” in one of her stories.
With 10 years of pastoral experience, Mrs Hall is a fully commissioned pastor within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. She is currently the youth leader in the Kingscliff–Murwillumbah area. With a passion for youth, Mrs Hall told students about choices and encouraged them to make the right ones.
“She concentrates on some of the big issues facing our kids today,” said school principal Ross Reid. “Her lively stories and down-to-earth presentation look at the reality of being a kid in 2006 and beyond, and are both refreshing and amusing.”
“I want the kids to know that they have a choice to be part of God’s big story,” Mrs Hall said.—Cherie Harrop