April 1999

Welcome to the 2^nd edition of this SMArt little newsletter. I'd like to thank all those who made this amazing piece of journalism possible, especially Jeffrey Ong (II Dent.). See, we can all get along (medical and dental students) J . Lastly, this entire year's collection of SMAewsletters can be found on the internet! Mail me for the address or for any feedback/requests.

Solomon

(III + I)

This newsletter features a report on the success of the Easter messages, a sneak preview to the SMA camp and... drum roll please... OUR NEW LOGO!!! sorry I got a bit carried away and stuck it all over the place. Artistically conjured from the drawing boards and numerous screwed-up paper balls by Michael and Yin, this logo will hopefully be used on future publications and SMA products Please give us some feedback on what you think of it.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for coming to the SMA dinner, and maybe I’ll see you around in our future functions J

Jeff (II Dentistry)

What else is happening:

• Open forum – where any questions you may have can be answered by a panel of Christian doctors.
• Games night
• Quiz night

Dear SMAers,

There is an opportunity for those who selected to join the CMDF mailing list to be involved in a national email forum of medical and dental students. It involves joining a list of students Australia-wide who are connected via email. Each student can email a central address which forwards the mail to all on the list. This provides a forum/table where we can encourage each other, learn more about our brothers and sisters in other states and discuss difficult issues relevant to us (eg. they are currently discussing "harm minimalisation").

Michael Chong (V)

Long ago....in a suburb far far away- well not so far if you actually knew where you were going - three Perth aliens (well two Albanyites and a QLDer) journeyed to the Thompson household for the Fresher welcome. Upon arrival the travellers were astonished at the number of medical....oh yeah AND dental students- sound familiar Mike?-which had invaded the host's private quarters.

The night went off with an intergalactic explosion; the major HIGHLIGHT, despite desperate efforts to silence them, being the two speakers: Cynthia and Siva-(what was that? the ghost train of Floreat?!!). All first years were undoubtedly uplifted to hear from Cynthia of the strong Christian support in the workplace-from both patients and doctors, and the importance of being a witness to the unsaved around you. We were also encouraged to hear Siva's words that even when times are tough, we know that in God's strength-and His alone-that we'll get through. Also to know that we have help at hand with the upper year SMAers - THANKS!!!!

This statement of generosity was then supported with Tony's amazing book giveaway – judging by the free-for all frenzy-they were definitely appreciated!!! First years also want to thank all you guys for providing such a
wonderful dinner. We also want to thank Mr President (note the authoritative term here), for a glimpse into the new pathologies we'll be learning in the future years. Yep,
that ol' foot -in -mouth disease is something our newly associated DENTAL friends will definitely be able to help us with-or will they Mike?! :)

Michael Thompson's house, hospitality and most definitely his POOL TABLE-were very much appreciated by all the SMAers and we want to thank him for his patience with regards to the departure of the last guests; rumours have been heard that he is planning on installing magnets into both the pockets and balls to ensure his guest leave before 1am next time. How long was that last pool game again -- 40 minutes?????

I'm sure all first years are now

More settled into SMA and are keen

to get involved to know Christ and

make Him known this year!!!

Christian students searching for accommodation close to UWA.

If anyone is interested, please contact Prof. Robinson at:

Amanda Olsen (I)

The meetings themselves have involved a variety of items. The year began on a casual note with a few icebreaker games getting things rolling. Since then however we've been making good ground (slow but steady) into the book of Philippians, and have begun planning for an 'on campus' evangelistic meeting. We are optimistic about the
meeting and plan to clearly present the gospel to our class mates (please pray for us). It will probably be happening in a few weeks time – following up from the SMA dinner. We've found Philippians has a lot to teach us. I've learnt some really important points that I hope you will find encouraging.

Paul reminds us that we are partners in the gospel. As Christians this is the real basis for our relationships. Even though we rarely see each other, and may be in different

denominations, we can rejoice that all Christians are actually on the same side - in partnership.

Daniel Claughton (II)

In response to the success of the 3^rd year Easter presentation last year, we’ve decided to ‘steal’ such a brilliant idea of delivering a message about Easter in lectures and extend this to the 1^st – 5^th years this year. We thought that through this
opportunity, we as Christians could
share with everyone the meaning
of Easter, so easily forgotten in
times when Easter is highly
commercialised.

Just before the Easter long
weekend, one representative from each
year stood up in front of everyone in the lecture and said a short message about Easter (a highly stressful and scary task – I know). After the message, we gave out Easter eggs to everyone (yummy – except I didn’t even get one coz by the time the bag of Easter eggs came to me, it was emptied!!!) The eggs symbolise the gift of new life from Jesus who died willingly to save all sinners in this world. This is the real meaning of Easter – to celebrate our saviour’s death!

The event went really well in all years. I just want to take this opportunity to thank all the brave people in each year – Amanda (1^st year), Jeff (2^nd year), James and everyone who wore a bunny hat (3^rd year), Siva (3^rd year dentistry), Meilyn and Nerissa (4^th year) and of course our big Pres Mike (5^th year). Well done guys!!! J

Tanya Yuen (V)