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The world iS in Turmoil iT’S looking for SignS You can SimplY give SignS—or give to SignS eiTher waY, iT’S a worThwhile inveSTmenT NEWS Funding enables new growth Wahroonga, New South Wales An encouraging outlook on church growth and evangelism is revealed in reports presented at a meeting of the South Pacific Division Centre for Church Planting and Global Mission Committee earlier this year. Sixty-six projects currently operating reported a combined total of 779 baptisms last year, with 913 people in preparation. “It is impossible to give a full picture of all the projects, from French Polynesia to Perth,” said Global Mission New group at Marrickville. coordinator, Pastor Raymond Coombe. “But these new church plants represent the growing edge of the Church, reaching into unentered areas and new people groups.” The annual sacrifice offering, collected at the end of the Week of Prayer on September 10, goes to support Global Mission projects around the world, and the South Pacific Division receives a good percentage of these funds for the support of new church plants. The biggest challenge facing the world Church is the 10/40 window representing millions of people where Christianity has not penetrated. The General Conference Session special offering in 2010 helped raise more than $US3 million to open new work along the old Silk Road that stretches from east to west across a vast area of Asia and Eastern Europe. Global Mission projects which will benefit from this offering include church plants among the Chinese communities of the Pacific, several Indigenous church plants in Australia, a new Filipino group in Christchurch, New Zealand, and two groups of Karen Burmese refugees in Australia. A six-year strategy for reaching Muslims in south-western Sydney is also underway with encouraging results. Other projects in Australia are targeting suburban areas of large secular cities. In the Pacific, new areas have been targeted in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tuvalu. Spearheading these church groups are 83 “global mission pioneers”, lay missionaries and pastors, who are sometimes paid just a small stipend to work in these isolated areas.—Raymond Coombe Signs of the Times is about witnessing in print Sponsor evangelism with Signs Tick the Signs of the Times box in the Adventist Media for Mission insert in this week’s Record. Or support Signs online at www.signsofthetimes.org.au The August 20 offering will be used for media evangelism.
NEWS Sanitarium’s kitchen caters for city Brisbane, Queensland Local businesses in Brisbane’s CBD can now enjoy great tasting and convenient workplace catering, while at the same time reducing their environmental footprint. Kitchen Sanitarium’s new workplace catering menu was launched on July 14 in Brisbane, with special guest, Australian cricketing legend Brett Lee. The breakfast launch event gave local business people the opportunity to sample the tasty meals on offer from Kitchen Sanitarium, while hearing Lee speak about his approach to health and fitness. Sanitarium CEO Kevin Jackson, and general manager— Health and Wellbeing Services, Cathy McDonald, also shared with guests a brief background of Kitchen’s philosophy of wholesome, delicious food. Kitchen’s chef Steve Warden-Hutton was presented with Green Table certification from the Restaurant and Catering Association in recognition of his team’s efforts to make sustainable environmental choices in their everyday practices. “Chef Steve Warden-Hutton and his team proactively identified opportunities to reduce energy and water consumption, solutions for composting food scraps, ensuring the use of environmentally friendly consumables and continue their commitment to buy fresh local produce,” said Charlotte Toxward, Brisbane membership consultant for the Restaurant and Catering Association. Additionally, the Kitchen Sanitarium team decided to take energy reduction a step further. “Through the purchase of credible carbon offsets we were able to support sustainable projects in New Caledonia, where 31 windmills spread across six small wind farms supply the island with electricity, reducing reliance on imported energy supplies, and employing local people,” said Kitchen Sanitarium manager Staff at Kitchen Sanitarium Dale Williams. “While the carbon credits give us a 20 per cent offset we are pleased to be part of something that really makes a tangible difference in the lives of people.” The Kitchen team is committed to preparing wholesome and delicious plant-based foods, with good health the key to menu choices, and is excited about the opportunity workplace catering represents to give more of Brisbane’s residents opportunities to sample Kitchen meals. The new catering menu includes hot and healthy breakfast selections, gourmet sandwich platters and celebration cakes. Order workplace catering online at and it will be delivered free to Brisbane’s CBD workplaces.—Sharyn Brady “Identify” refocuses youth Nunawading, Victoria A conference of youth leaders, young people and other church members has discussed the importance of Jesus as the focus of Seventh-day Adventist Christianity, as well as the history and mission of their Church. Hosted by VicYouth—the department of Youth Ministries for the Victorian Conference—at Nunawading Christian College, more than 60 conference participants were joined by hundreds more at youth rallies on the Friday and Saturday nights (July 22 and 23) of the conference. “It’s easy for us to keep getting caught up in tasks just because it’s what we’ve been doing for generations, and at times forgetting the reason why we’re doing it,” said VicYouth director Moe Ioane Stiles. “In the doing and going, our identity can become somewhat distorted. So ‘Identify’ is for us to stop and re-look at our reason for being and doing what we do.” Prompted by speakers Dr Grenville Kent, Dr John Skrzypaszek and Nathan Brown, the conference included roundtable discussions and healthy conversations. One of the highlights of and contributions to the weekend was the launch of a new book by Signs Publishing Company book editor Nathan Brown. His fifth book, I Hope, is a collection of editorials, essays and stories. “We both hope, that though we are flawed, broken, sinful human beings we strive always to have our hearts beat with God,” Mrs Stiles explained. “In I Hope tough issues are addressed with hope, and to have Nathan as one of our presenters as well was a bonus for us.” “Between Signs and the Author Nathan Brown with Moe Ioane Stiles, VicYouth director, at the launch of I Hope. VicYouth team we were able to give copies of the book to each of the conference participants,” Mr Brown said, “and it was a privilege to be part of this conference and have an event like this at which to launch this book.” I Hope is available from your local Adventist Book Centres.—Nathan Brown record.net.au • AUGUST 20, 2011 7 Photo: Nathan Chee
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