2015 Reports
2015-AGM-Reports
2015-AGM-Reports
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Baptism Ministry<br />
Services of Baptism<br />
and Dedication prove<br />
to be as popular as ever by our local<br />
community as well as our own church<br />
members. We held 30 services in <strong>2015</strong>!<br />
We praise God for the wonderful opportunity<br />
to share the gospel with our community in<br />
preparation for these services and thank God<br />
for our Visitation Team, who go out and meet<br />
and greet community families and explain the<br />
gospel to them.<br />
Commitment Sunday<br />
One Baptism Service was held as part of Café<br />
Church for Women, several baptisms and<br />
dedications were held on our Commitment<br />
Sunday, 6 of our church family infants and<br />
children were baptised either at 10am service<br />
or at St. Luke’s Brownsville.<br />
Our beautiful church at St. Luke’s continues to<br />
be a popular choice of venue for baptism as<br />
many of our community have links with the<br />
church building from weddings and previous<br />
baptism services.<br />
- Hilary Brown<br />
An important part of belonging to Christ and<br />
his people is to express that in the biblical<br />
rite of baptism and/or the denominational<br />
opportunity of confirmation/membership.<br />
In addition to the many children who were<br />
baptised throughout <strong>2015</strong>, this year we<br />
celebrated Commitment Sunday in<br />
November that saw members of our church<br />
either baptised, dedicated, confirmed or<br />
received into membership<br />
across 3 of our Sunday services.<br />
Two membership courses were<br />
offered prior to give<br />
opportunity for people to<br />
explore the significance of their<br />
faith and their allegiance to an<br />
Anglican expression of that<br />
faith.<br />
- Scott Goode<br />
Confirmation<br />
Last year we saw Brett Wilson, Matt Barker,<br />
Chloe Pearce, Benjamin Goode and Aimee<br />
Lee decide to confirm their faith in Jesus.<br />
Every year I am impressed by the desire of<br />
the confirmation candidates to learn more<br />
about the Christian faith and how they can<br />
put what they learn into practice.<br />
Each year we take the candidates out for<br />
breakfast and help them work through their<br />
testimonies. This time we enjoyed the sun by<br />
the beach at Stuart park.<br />
This group in particular<br />
were eager to share their<br />
testimonies with each other.<br />
Each person had a unique<br />
way of looking at what<br />
Christ had done for them. I<br />
look forward to seeing what<br />
God does with each of their lives.<br />
- Lachlan Davis<br />
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