Program Leader, Campus Ministry | Mr Andrew Stormonth

This term, we continue our journey of understanding the line from Micah – to love tenderly, act justly, and walk humbly with our God. As members of the Terrace Family, we are called to be present in voice and action to all in our community and beyond.

The start of Term 4 has given us a chance, through the Edmund Rice Foundation, to connect to the Best Foot Forward project. Here in Australia, we take for granted the access to education afforded to us and the opportunities this education provides, such as the ability to reach our full potential as an individual or to gain meaningful employment to provide for ourselves. The Best Foot Forward project is centred around bringing awareness to the lack of education and training for women in developing nations. As part of this project, we have been selling pink shoelaces as a sign of solidarity, with the funds raised going towards education and training programs for women to assist them in creating employment and business opportunities. 

We hope that this small gesture of solidarity with other EREA schools raises necessary funds for these projects, we hope that our Terrace Gentlemen have a greater appreciation of the opportunities they have and hear the call to learn how to be agents of change in our local community.

At College Assembly on Tuesday, Thomas Musgrave (Year 9 Reidy) and Thomas Noonan (Year 9 Treacy) called on the Terrace community to support this important project and concluded with this prayer:

Dear God,
We ask for justice and dignity for those who are disadvantaged and unable to receive an opportunity to education that we are fortunate to receive.
As Catholics in the Edmund Rice tradition, we are called to challenge ourselves in putting our best foot forward to help, guide and act justly to all. Not just to those in our local communities, but also wider communities, that they too will not be forgotten. 
We ask that we stand together in solidarity to ensure that we continue to provide help to others who have not received the same opportunities as us.
We also give thanks to those special people in all of our lives, those whose decisions and actions have helped provide each of us an opportunity to learn and to help shape us into the people we are today.
Live Jesus in our hearts…forever.

Service Award recipients

Congratulations to this term’s Service Award recipients for their humble and generous contributions around the College.

Year 7: Jed Gallagher and Henry Wright

Year 8: Henry Gallo, Declan Farrell and Corey Anderson

Year 10: Oscar Shields and Henry Joseph