Welcome to
St Mark's Registered Training Organisation
St Mark's RTO is a lively operation conducting courses that focus on Christian Counselling, Child Protection and Youth Ministry.
Purpose
St Mark's RTO was established to provide a wide range of professional and lay clients with basic training in counselling, youth work and child protection skills.
Photos from 2009 Graduation
A collection of photos from the Graduation in Gordon.
COMING EVENTS
 17-19 July 2009 |
Counselling Residential for Sydney Cert. IV in Christian Counselling and Communication Skills students. The Residential will be held at St Mark’s National Theological Centre, 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT. |
| Fri. 29 January 2010 |
Trainers Professional Development Day. at United Theological College, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta. |
| Sat. 6 February 2010 |
Graduation. Melbourne |
| Sat. 6 March 2010 |
Graduation. Sydney, Kincumber |
Meditation
NACR Daily Meditation for Saturday, Jun 13, 2009
A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, "Lord, if you
are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus reached out his hand and
touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!"
Immediately he was cured of his leprosy.
Matthew 8:2-3
There is a wonderful simplicity about this story - it summarizes a great deal of life in a few words. A man recognizes his need, comes, kneels, asks, is touched by Jesus and is cured. Many of us are living this story. We recognize our need. We come. We kneel. We ask. We await God's touch. We experience God's healing.
We would like our recovery to be just this simple. We want recognizing our need to be simple. We want our 'coming' to be simple. And we want our 'kneeling' to be simple. And we want our 'request' to be simple. And we want God's touch and healing to be immediate, tangible, simple.
There are, unfortunately, a few complications. For people who have lived in denial, 'recognizing our need', 'coming' and 'kneeling' are all major changes in the way we normally function. We have grown so accustomed to (and so attached to) our dysfunctions! So, recovery requires change. And change is always difficult - even when we call the change a 'healing.'
What is most helpful in this text is Jesus' clarity about his desires for us. Those of us who have been damaged by shame can expect to be uncertain about God's desires for us. Jesus is clear that it is God's desire for us to be healed. Our Healer wants to give us the gift of wholeness. When we recognize our illness and we 'come' and 'kneel' and 'ask', then there is no uncertainty in Jesus' response. He says "I am willing for you to be free of this affliction. I want health and joy for you.
I'm not sure you want to heal me, Lord.
Are you willing?
Or are you eager to punish?
Are you the god-of-impossible-expectations?
Are you pleased when I suffer?
Or are you willing to heal me?
I need healing, Lord.
But, more than healing, I need you.
Help me today to experience your desire to heal.
Help me today to experience your eagerness to heal, Lord.
Prepare me to receive your gift of healing.
Heal me.
Amen
Copyright: Dale and Juanita Ryan
RTO NEWS & ALERTS
updated:June 18, 2009