NEWS AND EVENTS
BRETHREN AT HEART OF WA COMMUNITY
It takes all sorts to make a community as ABC News journalist Samille Mitchell discovered, in her story about the township of Dalwallinu in WA: 'Exclusive Brethren, migrants and farmers the unusual social mix that has this little WA town thriving'. While Dalwallinu is...
RRT AIR LIFTS HAY BALES TO FLOOD HIT FARMERS
After devastating floods hit Lismore on the Far North Coast of NSW a second time in a month, Rapid Relief Team responded to local calls for support supplying 1,628 hay bales for farmers in need recently. The A-grade, tested, lucerne hay was distributed to more than...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM RESPOND TO FLOOD CRISIS
More than one hundred Rapid Relief Team volunteers have worked around the clock helping communities along Australia’s east coast fight and then recover from devastating floods. From Western Sydney to Maryborough, the North Coast of NSW to the Hawkesbury and Southern...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM THANK NEWCASTLE AMBULANCE STAFF
Local volunteers from the Newcastle Rapid Relief Team (RRT) joined forces with Fortem Australia to thank NSW Ambulance staff for all their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a small token of appreciation, RRT volunteers dished up more than 200 hot meals, along...
RRT DONATING 100,000 NUTRITIONAL BARS
Brethren charity, The Rapid Relief Team (RRT), is donating 100,000 nutritional ‘Smarrt Cookie’ bars to schools and students in need this year. It follows a successful trial program to more than 80 schools around Australia in 2021. Designed to complement existing...
BRETHREN CHARITY FOODBOXES GET NEAR PERFECT SCORE
The Rapid Relief Team’s Food Box initiative has received a near perfect score – with 96 per cent of recipients, including prominent community and charitable organisations, giving it the thumbs up. Aussie charity, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT), works with a variety of...
ONESCHOOL GLOBAL STUDENT TOPS STUDIES
A OneSchool Global student has topped the Advanced Financial Services Examination in this year’s Higher School Certificate (HSC). 17-year-old Jarrod Davis said he was happy with the result but was typically humble in his response, instead wanting to focus on the...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM FUELS FIRIES IN VICTORIAN GRASSFIRE FIGHT
Local volunteers from the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) responded to calls for support in Western Victoria recently after an out-of-control grassfire took off. The grassfire tore through hectares of pasture in January, but local firefighters raced against the clock to...
ONESCHOOL GLOBAL EXCELS IN VCE
OneSchool Global’s unique learning model has culminated in some fantastic 2021 Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results for students. Despite an incredibly difficult year punctuated by pandemic and lockdowns, OSG Victoria’s average ATAR results rose by nearly...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM – REFLECTIONS ON 2021
2021 didn’t pan out quite how everyone thought it would – with another year of the pandemic challenging communities around the world. “Despite these challenges, we managed to increase the support and assistance we were able to provide, at times it was needed most,”...