Student Activities
Prayer Mornings
Special prayer mornings are held each semester and are open to all students, wives and husbands. These times help reinforce the place of prayer in the life of the College. They also help to bind staff members and students together in shared devotions. Sometimes an outside speaker is invited to lead these prayer mornings. Former students, missionaries and current College needs are given priority in the prayers.
Chapel Services
Chapel services, consisting of a Bible reading, prayer and a hymn, occur each morning, as a reminder and a call to worship in the midst of College life. This is a corporate act in which staff and students participate in turn throughout the year. All students are expected to attend these services as an expression of their faith and commitment to the God of the Scriptures. The spirit of praise expressed at chapel times is intended to flow out into the rest of the day and its activities.
Friday Chapel
Every Friday during semester there is an extended chapel time, forming the focal point of the week. Outside speakers from a range of Christian ministries and organisations are invited to share. These visits are beneficial for students as contact-points for future ministry possibilities and opportunities for a greater diversity of church-based activities and outreach.
Rosters
All students are rostered for kitchen and library duties throughout the year. These duties involve helping in practical ways that are listed with the rosters on the noticeboard in the kitchen. In this way students learn to serve for the common good by facilitating the smooth running of the College in two of its most important centres of student life.
Prayer Groups
All students are allocated to a prayer group which meets regularly for corporate prayers in the light of shared needs and interests.
John G Paton Fellowship
The John G Paton Fellowship is a student body, run by the students, to provide a number of services. It takes its name from the Rev John G Paton, a pioneer Presbyterian missionary who sailed from Melbourne to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) in the 19th century. The intention is that by this association students will be reminded of Paton’s example of sacrificial and untiring evangelistic zeal, grounded in his firm grip of the eternal Gospel. It is in this light that the aims and objectives of the fellowship have been formulated:
1. To provide fellowship among students, to foster not only practical care for each other while at College, but to provide a meaningful basis for future fellowship.
2. To develop the students’ understanding of missionary endeavour through a program of meetings, focussed directly at missions and missionaries.
3. To publish news and activities of the College, and to provide material for an annual feature in 'Fellow Workers' , the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria.
4. To provide meaningful liaison between students and Faculty.
Email contact: jpf@presbyteriancollege.org
PTC Women's Group
Membership of the Women’s Group is open to all female students, wives and fiancees of students and staff of the College. There are regular evening meetings at the College. which are a friendly and easy way to meet other women involved with the college
and grow in our faith together.
Meetings begin at 7.30pm on the following dates for 2008:
Monday 3rd March
Wednesday 16th April
Monday 12th May
Wednesday 11th June
Monday 14th July
Wednesday 13th August
Wednesday 10th September
Monsday 6th Ocober
The activities of the group are organised by a committee elected annually in September. Guest speakers, who are often ministers' wives, lead the group in helpful discussions of issues related to current and future ministry. The friendships built up here are a great help in these college years and in years to come. This is a friendly, supportive, caring group of women and a place to gain experience in vital ministry roles.
The Women's Group is also able to serve the college community by taking responsibility for various college events such as the annual dinner.
