CLASS OF 2017 - LACHLAN MASON & PAIGE MEYER.  Congratulations to Lachie and Paige on their recent engagement!

Lachie and Paige both graduated Ballarat Christian College in 2017. Lachie began attending the College in Year 2, while Paige joined in Year 7, and both were middle school Captains during 2014.

In 2016, Lachie became very ill with a rare kidney disease and was put into intensive care and told he needed a kidney transplant. He went on the transplant waiting list while undergoing nightly dialysis for 10 hours a night every night. During this time, he attended school during the day and completed his VCAL, even though he was quite sick. Paige, while supporting Lachie, underwent her VCE and successfully completed with scores that led her to a Bachelor of Nursing at ACU.

In early 2018, Lachie received the call to receive a kidney and after recovery, undertook a Certificate IV in Community and Human Services, starting weeks late. After completing this, he applied for the Bachelor of Community and Human Services at Federation University.

Paige graduated from her Bachelor of Nursing in 2020 and was successful throughout her degree in creating her own business called ‘Peas and Jays’, specialising in sewing gifts and homewares. It was her kind generosity that used this skill to sew bibs that looked like clothing from shirts, to return dignity to patients in nursing homes and specialist schools. Paige set a goal to make 1,000 bibs from her own time and donations to reach this target, landing her in ‘The Courier’, which helped draw attention to this need. Paige went on to do a Master of Teaching, specialising in health and science and will graduate in the middle of 2022 with goals to teach these VCE subjects.

Lachie also started his own business during his degree as a self-employed support carer for clients in NDIS. Lachie has completed his degree, all except his 500 hours of placement which was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is currently doing placement in a local high school, working as part of the wellbeing team organising programmes and doing counselling work. After completion of his placement he will graduate mid 2022 as a social worker.

Both Paige and Lachie also spent two years volunteering as leaders on the ‘Christians at Uni’ group for both Federation University and Australian Catholic University. They also dedicated their time to serving while at university, often taking part in community events during this time, including several trips to Canberra and Children’s Mission in Ararat

We wish them well in their life together and their future careers as a teacher and social worker.