Our Healthy Youth Ministry Framework is a new tool designed to help you ensure the health of your youth ministry and identify areas that could use some work. With your help, we’ve been working hard for the last 2 years to clearly define healthy youth ministry and gather resources for youth pastors to use in […]
We have been promising that they are on their way and now they’re here! We are excited to invite you to the Launch of the updated Safe Church Package and Safe Church Health Check Application at the start of November! Please join us on either Wednesday 1st November from 8 to 9pm or on Thursday
The Gathering Incorporating the Ordinary Assembly will be held on Saturday 11 November 2023! There will be some important business to discuss but our focus during this Gathering will be the impact of leadership investment to increase the number and diversity of leaders to meet the demands of our God-given Goal of 1000 Healthy Churches
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Prayer is a continuous need and a spiritual discipline which as followers of Jesus we are called to participate in, individually and together. We want to keep providing opportunities to pray together. The next opportunity is coming up online on Thursday 5th October from 7.45pm to 8.30pm. Please join us from wherever you are across our movement for
‘Our Story’ is where we share stories of our wider Baptist movement; stories from our journey towards our goal of becoming a movement of 1,000 healthy churches in a generation, stories of how Baptist Churches in NSW & ACT are navigating key issues, and stories from our affiliated groups. Sharing stories is vital so that we
This month at our online Insights pastors and leaders gathering, we were joined by Karl Faase, CEO of Olive Tree Media where he shared with us about the heart of evangelism tied into National Baptism Week happening in October. Karl shared with us insights, strategies, and stories that highlighted the transformative impact of evangelism within
If you have been involved with children and family ministry for any length of time you have probably asked yourself or been asked by someone about baptism and children. How old does someone need to be to be baptised as a believer? How do you talk about such a symbolic event with kids who are
FORM conference 2023 is happening next week and its not too late to sign up for a day visit! Registrations for one day (Thursday 5 October) visits close this Friday, September 29 so make sure to head to the FORM website HERE to register now!
Imagine that churches were like limbs, maybe an arm or a leg, that had sustained an injury. A scratch would require a Band Aid. A cut might require stitching, but a limb with severe muscle and tissue damage or a broken bone might need reconstructive surgery? Where there is gangrene or total loss of tissue, amputation
The good news is that because of the nature of our God, nothing is impossible. No matter where a church finds itself on the Congregational Life Cycle it can find a new phase of life and health. The bad news is that the further along the “decline” side of the graph a church is, the
We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and traditional custodians of the lands where we live and minister. We pay respect to their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Creator God who has brought us together, from different lands and nations, and desire to continue together towards deeper understanding and reconciliation.
