Evangelical author Philip Yancey gave a presentation at Avondale College Church on 20 October 2001, which was broadcast throughout the South Pacific Division.
Last year's school musical for 2013 was "Miss Saigon", a story of romance between an American GI and a Vietnamese bar girl, based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.
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The school was used in the 1995 feature film Bonjour Timothy, a joint New Zealand/Canadian production, and in the Disney Channel movie, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off and the Te Mana Advertisement.
During 1958 and 1959 he was a trainee schoolteacher at Manjimup and Victoria Park before proceeding to Avondale College, New South Wales, where he completed the Elementary Teachers Certificate (1961) and a Bachelor of Arts (1964).
After playing high school basketball at Avondale College in Auckland, New Zealand, Shang played college basketball at Illinois Central Community College from 2005 to 2007, at the University of Nebraska, where he played with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 2007 to 2008, and at Emporia State University from 2008 to 2009.
Born in Australia, he earned a degree in chemical technology before attending Avondale College, where he met his wife Nolene Johnsson.
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In the South Pacific, the Adventist Church operates four tertiary colleges and universities (Avondale College in Australia, Fulton College in Fiji, and Pacific Adventist University and Sonoma Adventist College in Papua New Guinea), and more than 250 primary and secondary schools, with a total enrollment of about 35,000.