Service Learning

Hillcrest Sponsors and supports numerous children right across the College, in Primary and Secondary School, such as Goncalo (pictured) who is from Timor Lest - Hera District. 

The aim of the trip is twofold:

• To help students grow in faith, experience missions, and gain an appreciation of who they were created to be.
• To connect with the Palm Island indigenous community and be exposed to their culture and challenges they are facing. The group will spend time at the YWAM base in Townsville doing some discipleship training and then travel to the indigenous community of Palm Island to learn and serve there.

The main aim of the trip is to continue to build on the partnership and links established over five years with the Year 10-12 Community School in the mountainous Ermera district and the Kids Ark ministries – primary school, church and health clinics – in coastal Hera. These community connections aim to give our students an opportunity to learn about the history and current challenges of Timor Leste.

The core aims of the Cambodia trip are to promote and nurture a Christian worldview within the Hillcrest student body by providing opportunities to learn first-hand about the history and current challenges in Cambodia and for students to be involved in practical service for projects undertaken by Samaritan’s Purse, such as:

• Operation Christmas Child
• Exposure to a variety of development projects
• Exposure to a variety of disaster relief projects