Thankyou for supporting Compassion Month BBQ + SMA AGM

Thankyou

A big thankyou to YOU for supporting SMA's Compassion BBQ! It was a great event and about $200 was raised for the much needed Pakistan Flood Relief through TEAR Australia. If you'd like to further donate to the cause online, please visit TEAR Australia's website here.

SMA-AGM

It's been a great year, and it's now time to wrap up the SMA calendar with our AGM. The AGM will be a time of thanksgiving, and a sneak peak into the year ahead. It'll also be a great time to catch up with each other before Exam Stress Syndrome hits.

It'd be great to see you there!

When: Monday 18th October @ 6:30pm
Where: Dalkieth Anglican Church (56 Viking Rd, Dalkeith) 
RSVP: to writetosma@gmail.com (for food purposes)
What to bring: Dinner will be provided (if you RSVP), but feel free to bring dessert to share

SMA Compassion Month poster

Here's the poster for SMA's compassion month (click to enlarge!). This year, we've chosen to help out the TEAR Australia Pakistan Flood Relief as a way of practically showing compassion as we have been shown it by Christ.

To get involved in fundraising, come to our fundraising barbecue and buy a sausage sizzle and a drink:

Where: Outside the meddent library

When: Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11.30am-1.30pm

If you have other ideas for fundraising, or would like to know more about what your year group has planned for compassion month, contact your SMA year reps!

Looking forward to seeing you there! :)

3 ways to get involved in SMA!

Hi all,

Well, it's been nearly a month since SMA/CMDFWA dinner, and we hope you thoroughly enjoyed it! Did you find it inspiring/motivating/challenging? Do you want to find out more about Christianity? Do you want to get more involved with SMA?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you'd be pleased to know that there are 3 ways you can continue being involved in SMA:

1) Join a small group.

There's no better way to being involved in SMA than joining other people in your year and course to hang out, chat about God's Word, and pray together. If you're not a Christian, its a great way to find out more about what Christians believe through real discussions with your mates. For more info about small groups, contact your year rep - they can be found on the sma website in the next few days.

2) Participate in Compassion month.

The wheels are in motion for next month's event, which will be October - SMA's first Compassion Month. The aim of Compassion Month is to raise money for a charity organisation through selling chocolates, BBQs, and any other fundraising idea. This year, we have decided to raise money for disaster relief in Pakistan through TEAR Australia. Pakistan has recently had one of its worst floods affecting millions of people. For more info visit http://www.tear.org.au/emergencies/pakistan-floods-2010. More info about this event and how you can participate will be sent soon, but if you have any ideas about raising funds, please post a comment at our blog: sma-info.blogspot.com

3) Nominate for SMA Committee 2011.

Do you want to be part of planning and leading SMA next year? There are plenty of opportunities to serve in SMA! If you are interested or would like to nominate someone, please email us at writetosma@gmail.com . A list of committee positions will be on the website in the next few days. We hope to finalise our committee for 2011 at our AGM meeting on the 18th October.

SMA dinner poster

Here's the poster for SMA/CMDFWA dinner 2010, which should be coming up in printed form around uni soon! 

Come and join us at this year's combined CMDFWA and SMA dinner! CMDFWA stands for 'Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of WA', and dinner will be a chance for you to meet grads as well as other students in different years, have some great Japanese food and hear Dave Skirving speak on the topic 'Mythbusters-- can miracles happen?'

In case you can't see the image, here are the details (which are also in the post below):

When: 17 Aug 2010, 6.30pm

Where: Tsunami Japanese Restaurant, 18 Glyde St Mosman Park

Cost: $30 for students, $50 for grads

Register online now with the form below! Please feel free to approach your SMA year reps with any questions.

SMA Dinner registration is now open!!

SMA+CMDFWA COMBINED DINNER 2010

Kon'nichiwa! (Hello)

You're invited to our annual SMA+CMDFWA combined dinner 2010, a night of fine Japanese cruisine, great company, and a chance to hear an interesting topic about Christianity. This year's topic is Mythbusters - can miracles happen? Can we believe in a Bible that is full of extraordinary things happening? The sick get healed, the blind see, people rise from the dead, isn't it all a bit too much? Not to be missed!


Details:
When: 17 August 2010, 6:30pm
Where: Tsunami Japanese Restaurant, 18 Glyde St, Mosman Park
Topic: Mythbusters— can miracles happen?
Speaker: Dave Skirving
Cost: $30 for students, $50 for grads
Registration closes:  Saturday, 14 August

Registration is now open!

If you'd like to come, please fill in the details below and click SUBMIT (scroll down to find button). By clicking SUBMIT, you are saying that you will be attending the event. Collection of moneys will occur on the night of the event.


(If you require transport, this will be arranged and you will be notified the 2 days before the event)

What's happening in SMA in Semester 2

Hi all,

I hope you had an awesome semester break (if applicable!). As uni is starting up again, so too is SMA - Christian Students in Healthcare.

We have 2 exciting events lined up for semester 2 in SMA. We will be sending you more information about each closer to the date. Hope to see you soon!

- The SMA Team

SMA/CMDFWA Dinner

What: Our annual dinner get-together, for everyone (SMAer or non-SMAer). Here's a chance to enjoy delicious cruisine, meet new people, and hear an entertaining and informative talk about Christianity. This year the topic is Mythbusters: can miracles can happen?

When and where: details to be confirmed, but we are looking at Tuesday the 17th August at Tsunami Japanese Restaurant, Mosman Park.

Details and online registration will be released very shortly!!

Compassion Month

What:What do BBQs, chocolates, and tin cans have in common? The answer is they can all raise money for Compassion Australia, a Christian charity organisation that aims to release children from poverty around the world. In the month of September, SMA will be running sausage sizzles, selling chocolates and collecting donation. Here's an opportunity to get involved in something great! 

When: Throughout September

Coming Soon: Grill-a-Christian!!

GRILL-A-CHRISTIAN

That's right, it's here, and its coming to a Dalkieth Anglican Church near you!!!

Grill-a-Christian is a chance for you to hear your questions answered about Christianity by a panel with a mix of theological and medical training over a yummie sausage sizzle!

Plus if you wanna get early with your questions, start posting them here by commenting to this post..

Hope to see you there!

DETAILS

Tuesday 18 May

BBQ @ 6pm, Grill-a-Christian @ 6:30-8:30pm

Dalkieth Anglican Church (56 Viking Rd, Dalkeith)