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"Inter-School Christian Fellowship (ISCF) or Inter-Scholastic Christian Fellowship is a Christian youth ministry that works with students within high schools. ISCF groups are often supported by external evangelical Christian organisations and churches – examples including the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, the Scripture Union, and local churches.In Our Schools Heathcote Engadine Baptist Church ISCF operates in countries including Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Philippines and the United States of America. ISCF groups are often voluntarily led by senior studentsScripture Union NSW – Schools and usually have the support and guidance of an older mentor, youth pastor, or a patron teacher. ISCF groups mainly meet during lunchtime. Australia =Activities= Some typical activities of an ISCF program include: *Talks by students and guest-speakers (e.g. Pastors) *Bible studies *Singing *Games *Barbecues *Camps *Combined gatherings and socials with ISCF groups from other schools In supporting students wishing to be better equipped for serving in ISCF, there are various training programmes available, for instance the annual "ISCF Leadership Conference" (Scripture Union NSW),ISCF Leadership Conference or "Rising Leaders" (part of the Next Generation conference, hosted by the Katoomba Christian Convention Center).About – Next Generation – KCC Retrieved on 4 November 2011 =Schools in Australia= Through the post-war (WWII) period ISCF operated in several government high schools, including Balwyn High School in Victoria, where it was particularly active through the 1960s. The numbers of government schools with an ISCF declined with a general decrease in religious activities in government schools. Some Australian high schools with ISCF groups include: *Armidale High School *Baulkham Hills High School *Brisbane Boys' CollegeISCF – Co-curricular Activities – Visitors and Applicants – Brisbane Boys' College Retrieved on 24 October 2011 *Brisbane Grammar School *Caringbah High School *Carlingford High School *Cheltenham Girls High School *Cherrybrook Technology High School *Chatswood High SchoolChatswood High School Retrieved on 24 October 2011 *Engadine High School *Epping Boys' High SchoolEpping Boys High School Retrieved on 4 November 2011 *Figtree High School *Hornsby Girls High School *Heathcote High School *James Ruse Agricultural High SchoolISCF – James Ruse Agricultural High School Retrieved on 24 October 2011 *Kingsgrove High SchoolHigh Schools Retrieved on 5 June 2012 *North Sydney Boys High School *North Sydney Girls High School *Moreton Bay College *Normanhurst Boys High School *Muirfield High School *Ravenswood School for Girls *Sefton High School *Somerville House *St George Girls High School *St Margaret's Anglican Girls School *St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School *Sydney Boys High School *Sydney Girls High School *Sydney Technical College *Sydney Technical High SchoolSydney Technical High School Retrieved on 24 October 2011 See also * International Sport Combat Federation of Mixed Martial Arts References External links *Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship (Canada) ISCF Canada *ISCF Jamaica *Scripture Union International Scripture Union NSW Christian youth organizations Christian organisations based in Australia Christianity in Jamaica Student societies in Australia Student societies in Jamaica Evangelical parachurch organizations Christian education in Australia "
"Bandler meeting with Gordon Bryant (left) and Prime Minister Harold Holt in the lead-up to the 1967 referendum. Faith Bandler (27 September 1918 13 February 2015; née Ida Lessing Faith Mussing) was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage. She was a campaigner for the rights of indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler was best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. Early life and family Bandler was born in Tumbulgum, New South Wales, and raised on a farm near Murwillumbah. Her father had been blackbirded from Ambrym Island, Vanuatu, in 1883, at the age of about 13. He was then sent to Mackay, Queensland, before being sent to work on a sugar cane plantation. He later escaped and married Bandler's mother, a Scottish-Indian woman from New South Wales. Her father, Wacvie Mussingkon, son of Baddick and Lessing Mussingkon, was taken as a boy in 1883 from Biap, on the island of Ambrym in what is now Vanuatu. His abduction was part of blackbirding, the practice which brought cheap labour to help establish the Australian sugar industry. He was later known as Peter Mussing, a lay preacher and worked on a banana plantation outside Murwillumbah. He died when Bandler was five years old.Tony Stephens, Profile, anu.edu.au; accessed 20 December 2015. Bandler cited stories of her father's harsh experience as a slave labourer as a strong motivation for her activism. In 1934, Bandler left school and moved to Sydney, where she worked as a dressmaker's apprentice. Career =Early career= During World War II, Bandler and her sister Kath served in the Australian Women's Land Army, working on fruit farms. Bandler and indigenous workers received less pay than white workers. After being discharged in 1945, she started to campaign for equal pay for indigenous workers. After the war, Bandler moved to the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross. =Community activism= In 1956, Bandler became a full-time activist, becoming involved in the Aboriginal–Australian Fellowship with Pearl Gibbs, Grace Bardsley, and Bert Groves. Bandler also became involved with the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), which was formed in 1957. During this period, Bandler worked with her mentors Pearl Gibbs and Jessie Street. As general secretary of FCAATSI, Bandler led the campaign for a constitutional referendum to remove discriminatory provisions from the Constitution of Australia. The campaign, which included several massive petitions and hundreds of public meetings arranged by Bandler, resulted in the 1967 referendum being put to the people by the Holt government. The referendum succeeded in all six states, attracting nearly 91 percent support across the country.Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved March 22, 2015. In 1975, Bandler visited Ambrym Island, where her father had been kidnapped 92 years before. Throughout the 1970s, Bandler was a prominent member of the Women's Electoral Lobby in New South Wales. =Writing= Faith Bandler memorial plaque in Sydney Writers Walk at Circular Quay In 1974, Bandler started working on four books, two histories of the 1967 referendum, an account of her brother's life in New South Wales, and a novel about her father's experience of blackbirding in Queensland. Beginning in 1974, she also started campaigning for the rights of South Sea Islander Australians. According to Bandler's biographer, feminist writer and historian Marilyn Lake, this campaign was more challenging than the FCAATSI campaign for the 1967 referendum, since Bandler was fighting on two fronts. Not only was she battling historians who insisted that the blackbirded South Sea Islanders were actually voluntary indentured servants, but she was also to some extent ostracised by indigenous Australians in the Australian civil rights movement, due to the increasing influence of separatist Black Power ideology. Bandler's published works include: * Personal life In 1952, Faith married Hans Bandler, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, Austria, and lived in Frenchs Forest. During the war, Hans had been interned in the Nazi labour camps. The couple had a daughter, Lilon Gretl, born in 1954, and a fostered Aboriginal Australian son, Peter (Manual Armstrong). Hans died in 2009. Faith Bandler died at the age of 96 in February 2015. Honours and awards Bandler was: * appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1976, but she declined to accept it * appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 11 June 1984, in recognition of her service to Aboriginal welfare * awarded an honorary doctorate from Macquarie University in 1994 * awarded the 1997 Human Rights Medal by the then Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission * named as one of the 100 inaugural Australian Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia * invested as a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) on 26 January 2009 (Australia Day) *included on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001 A 1993 portrait of Bandler by artist Margaret Woodward is held by the State Library of New South Wales. Following her death, Prime Minister Tony Abbott offered Bandler's family a state funeral. References External links * Faith Bandler on the National Museum of Australia website Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957 – 1973 * Faith Bandler at the National Museum of Australia * Bandler, Faith in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia 1918 births 2015 deaths Australian people of Indian descent Australian people of Scottish descent Australian people of Vanuatuan descent Australian feminist writers Australian indigenous rights activists Australian women writers Companions of the Order of Australia Disease-related deaths in Australia Writers from New South Wales Australian women novelists Australian women in World War II "
"The following artists (musicians or bands) have had releases with the independent record label Nuclear Blast. A * Accept * After Forever (ex) * Agathodaimon (ex) * Agnostic Front * Alcest * Alesana (after Artery Recordings and Revival Recordings lost the band) * All Shall Perish * Almanac * Am I Blood (ex) *Amaranthe * Amorphis * Anthem * Anthrax (EU only) * Arsis (US only) * Ashes of Ares * As I Lay Dying * Augury (US only) * Auri * Avantasia * Avatarium B * Bal-Sagoth (ex) * Battle Beast "http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/591628.battle- beast.html" * Battlecross (ex) * Beast in Black * Behemoth * Belphegor * Benediction * Biohazard * Black Star Riders "http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/2825266.black-star- riders.html" Black Star Riders * Blackguard (Europe only) (ex) * Bleed the Sky (ex) * Bleeding Through (Europe only) (ex) * Blind Guardian * Blues Pills * Brujeria * Before the Dawn * Broken Teeth * Bury Tomorrow (ex) C * Callejon (ex) * Candlemass (ex) * Carcass * Carnifex * Cathedral (ex) * Cellar Darling * Children of Bodom * Chimaira (Cleveland Ohio) (ex) * Cipher System * Chrome Division * Clawfinger(ex) * Coldseed (ex) * Communic * Comeback Kid * Condemned * Control Denied (ex) * Corrosion of Conformity * Cradle of Filth * Crematory (ex) * Crobot * Crucified Barbara (US only) D * The Damned Things * Danzig * Darkane (ex) * Darkseed (ex) * Dark Sermon"http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/2903694.dark- sermon.html" * David Shankle Group (ex) * Death (ex) * Death Angel * Deathstars * Decapitated * Decrepit Birth * Defecation (ex) * Demonaz * Demonoid (ex) * Destruction * Despised Icon * Devilment * Devil You Know * Dew-Scented (ex) * Diablo Boulevard * Die Apokalyptischen Reiter * Dimmu Borgir * Disbelief (ex) * Discharge * Disharmonic Orchestra (ex) * Dismal Euphony (ex) * Dismember (ex) * Dissection (ex) * Divinity (ex) * Doro"http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/71109.doro.html" * Dreadful Shadows (USA Only) E * Earthless * Echoes of Eternity (ex) * Edguy * Ektomorf (ex) * Eluveitie * Enforcer "http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/2782176.enforcer.html" * Enslaved * Emperor (ex) * Epica * Equilibrium * Ex Deo (ex) * Exodus * Exhorder * Eyes Set To Kill F * Face Down (ex) * Fallujah * Farmer Boys (ex) * Fear Factory * Filter (ex) * Final Breath (ex) * Fireball Ministry (ex) * Fit for an Autopsy * Fleshgod Apocalypse * Flotsam and Jetsam * Forbidden * For Today (ex) G * Gardenian (ex) * Generation Kill * Ghost Bath * Godgory (ex) * Golem (ex) * Gorefest (ex) * Gorgoroth (ex) * Gotthard * Grand Magus * Grave Digger (ex) * Graveworm * Graveyard H * Hackneyed (ex) * HammerFall * Hatebreed * Hardcore Superstar * Heathen * Hell * Helloween * Helltrain (ex) * Hollow (ex) * Holy Grail * Horde (ex) * Hypocrisy I * I * Illuminate (ex) * Immortal (ex) * In Flames * Immolation * Indica K * Kadavar "http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/2893136.kadavar.html" * Kataklysm * Keep of Kalessin (ex) * Killer Be Killed * Knorkator (ex) * Korpiklaani * The Kovenant (ex) * Kreator L * Lacrimosa (United States only) * Lamb of God * Like Moths to Flames (ex) * Lingua Mortis Orchestra "http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/about/3003970.lingua-mortis- orchestra.html" * Liquido (ex) * Lock Up * Lordi (ex) * Luca Turilli's Rhapsody M * M.O.D. (ex) * Machine Head * Madball * Malevolent Creation (ex) * Mandragora Scream (ex) * Manowar (ex) * Mantic Ritual (ex) * Master (ex) * MaYan * Melechesh * Mendeed (ex) * Meshuggah * Metal Allegiance * Ministry * Misery Index (ex) * Mnemic (ex) * Mortification (ex) * Municipal Waste * My Dying Bride * Mystic Prophecy (ex) N * Nails * Narnia (ex) * Nightwish * Nile * Nokturnal Mortum (ex) * NorthTale * Northward * Nothing Left * No Return (ex) O * Obscura * Omnium Gatherum (ex) * One Man Army and the Undead Quartet (ex) * Opeth * Opprobrium (ex) * Orchid http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/news/details/1123230.orchid-signs- worldwide-deal-with.html * Origin * Orphanage (ex) * Overkill P * Pain * Paradise Lost * Pegazus (ex) * Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons * Possessed * Primal Fear (ex) * Prime STH (ex) * Pro-Pain (ex) * Psycroptic * Pungent Stench (ex) * Pyogenesis (ex) R * Rage * Raise Hell (ex) * Raunchy (ex) * ReVamp (ex) * Rhapsody of Fire * Ride the Sky (ex) * Rob Zombie * Rings of Saturn * Rise of the Northstar S * S.O.D. (ex) * Sabaton * Samael * Satyricon (ex) * Savatage (United States only) * Scar Symmetry * Secret Sphere (ex) * Sepultura * Sinergy (ex) * Sinister (ex) * Sinner (ex) * Sirenia (ex) * Skyclad (ex) * Slaughter (ex) * Slayer * Slipknot (band) * Soilwork * Sonata Arctica * Sonic Syndicate (ex) * Soulfly * Speckmann Project (ex) * Stahlhammer (ex) * Steel Prophet (ex) * Stormwitch (ex) * Stratovarius (ex) * Subway To Sally (ex) * Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky (ex) * Such A Surge (ex) * Suffocation * Suicide Silence * Suicidal Tendencies (ex) * Susperia (ex) * Swashbuckle (ex) * Sylosis * Symphony X T * Tankard * Tarot * Tasters (ex) * Terror 2000 (ex) * Testament * Texas in July (Europe only) * Textures * Theatre of Tragedy (ex) * The 69 Eyes * The Abyss (ex) * The Accüsed (ex) * The Adicts * The Black League (ex) * The Crinn (US only) * The Defiled * The Duskfall (ex) * The Exploited * The Night Flight Orchestra * The Vintage Caravan * The Charm The Fury * Therion * Threat Signal * Threshold * Thunderstone (ex) * Thy Art Is Murder * Tiamat (ex) * Timo Tolkki (ex) * To/Die/For (ex) * Tuomas Holopainen * Turilli / Lione Rhapsody * Twilight Force U * Unleashed V * Vader (ex) * Venom Inc. * Voivod W * Warmen (ex) * Warrior (ex) * We Came as Romans (Europe only) * Wednesday 13 * While Heaven Wept * White Skull (ex) * Winter (ex) * Wintersun * Witchcraft * Witchery (ex) * Within Temptation * Wolf Hoffmann * World Under Blood References Nuclear Blast "