The Growing Healthy Corps Network is growing. Some of you would recall the consultation that was held at Marion back in August 2007, when Rev Dr Paul Borden and a team came to our Corps to help us identify some prescriptions designed to help us to fulfil the great commission as we moved forward.
There has been mixed success, I should say, in how we have gone. To this end, I've resolved to review the prescriptions and see where we can pick up the ball again.
In the meantime, I've now had the opportunity to sit on the other side of the fence, as a consultant team member. With three others I've spent the last four days at Parafield Gardens Salvation Army Corps in Adelaide helping to identify strength, concerns and prescriptions to help them move forward. It feels like a very scriptural thing to do, to help other parts of the body to reach their potential. We need Corps in Parafield Gardens to help fulfil the commission of the church to make disciples in the same way that we need to be doing our thing at Marion.
It reminds me of why our church even exists. We are there to shine God's light in Adelaide's south so that others will join us as disciples of Jesus Christ. We intend to do this so that we become the multi-congregational, multi-campus, multicultural Corps that we believe we have been called to be. In doing so we pray that we will see 1% of our local city join us as worshipping disciples. We'll ensure we are on track to help people KNOW God (transform lives), GROW in God (make disciples), SHOW God's love (care for people) and GO in God's service (reform society).
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