Hey
My name is Eden, and I am a Youth Intern at Edwardstown Baptist Church. What does that mean? Well I’m glad you asked, but first I want to tell you a little more about myself.

I was born and bred in Taranaki, New Zealand in the small town of Inglewood. My parents are the first Christians in their families, and my brothers, sister and I grew up in a small Independent Baptist Church. I have an older brother who is married with a 1 year old boy. They are currently living in Hamilton, NZ. My older sister is in her third year of Nursing at Adelaide University, and I have a younger brother in year 9 at school.

Growing up, my parents were unhappy with the schools in our area, so my siblings and I were home schooled. My father was the caretaker of our church and we lived in a house on the church property. The church ran school holiday camps, and had a few acres of land which was home to a small number of cows and sheep. Many of my fondest memories of childhood had something to do with being out with the animals and my dad.

When I was 6 God called my family to move North to a city called Hamilton, and run a campsite there. This was a very new and difficult experience for my family, though being a child, I was quite naïve of it at the time. My parents resurrected a dead campsite, and you can only imagine all the hard work that went into this. After two years we again felt God’s call on our lives to move so that dad could study at a Christian Bible college to become a pastor. So, off we went to Adelaide, Australia.

So here I am, finished my high school education, deferred from a Psych degree at uni, working two part time jobs and volunteering at my church two days a week.

Now let me tell you about my work at EBC. I, along with three other interns, prepare, plan, review, discuss, confer, discover, change, improve, fail, succeed, and learn.