Happy New Year

2012

Is it the start of something big and new? We believe so. We believe that God is already at work among us fulfilling his mission in the world. We have a great opportunity this coming year to jump on board and see amazing things happen around us.

God is working to bring about transformation in our community through the life of our church. We will continue to grow into the multi-campus, multi-congregational, multi-cultural church, serving all generations in Adelaide's south, that he is calling us to be. We will continue to do this by ensuring his light shines in this community, through us, so that others join us as disciples of Jesus Christ.

The strategy hasn't changed.

We will, in 2012, KNOW God. This is about ensuring our relationship with God is right and also helping others to have their lives transformed by God.

We will, in 2012, GROW in God. This is about our own discipleship, and we look forward to training days and new small groups, coordinated by Sally Varidel, to help. It is also about making disciples of others, inviting them to join us in church, in memebership and in ministry. Judith Lear will continue to coordinate our membership classes and Angela will continue to coordinate our volunteers. We also have great guest speakers coming to worship this year who are going to bring fuel for our journey, including Andrew Evans (January 22) and Rod Denton (April).

We will, in 2012, SHOW God. Our caring ministries will be restructured this year under our new community services manager, Greg. Greg will now be responsibile for our CSS, Financial Counsellors, Counslling, Shops, Community Care and any of the outreach, social ministries. Kerryn has asked to step back into a casework role, which she takes up from January 16. Of course, beyond our professional services, we are all responsible for caring in our community and I thank those that are part of our pastoral council and team for their work that will continue into 2012.

We will, in 2012, GO in God as well. We will be participants in the changes in our society that we want to see.

This is going to be a great year. Please pray for the leaders in the church and for the changes mentioned above. There will be a few more restructures and ministry reviews as we go - and the whole Corps will be reviewed by the Division in March. This will be a great opportunity to take stock of where we are at and look forward to the future.

Look out this year for new things - new Messy Church, new shop days, new caring ministries, new training opportunities and most of all, new people joining us on the discipleship journey.