How did it come about? Last month, Steve and I responded to a request to come over to Perth and have a ‘chat’ to the leadership team of a young church plant north of Perth called, Horizon Reformed Christian Fellowship. This came about through an invitation from Jason Coughran and …
Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit and preach at Darwin Presbyterian Church (DPC). While Kath was doing a church consultancy in Maclean I hopped a plane and was met at Darwin Airport by Josh Bouzanquet. Josh and Sybille are from Creek Road PC originally and moved to Darwin …
Adelaide is Australia’s fifth largest city, yet for many years the combined ministry of the Presbyterian churches has been smaller than many country town ministries. Creek Road has been involved with the church in Adelaide since 2013, when they were asked to help the ministry there. This partnership formed the …
A new start At the very end of 2017, Kath and I left our home and our family and drove one thousand kilometres to live in a new city, Brisbane, to start a new ministry called Church2Church at Creek Road Presbyterian Church. We left the loved, the familiar, the …
At times, our preaching of Paul’s letters tends to trend, even unintentionally, toward a doctrinal approach and as such lacks the personal drama of Paul’s own situation that I believe is woven throughout the letters.
Recently, we have probably heard the word ‘jubilee’ used in connection with Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, a celebration for her sixtieth year as Queen. The use of ‘jubilee’ in this context has little, if anything to do with the biblical idea of Jubilee, except as a marker of a …
Over the last year or so, the proposition that our post-Christian Australia has reached the cultural tipping point is beyond contradiction. The question of the moment is, how do we respond as the people of God and pastors of the people of God to that reality. The title of this …
On the 1st of January 2018 we crossed the Tooleybuc Bridge and left our life long home of NSW. With a combination of excitement and anxiety, we were cautiously optimistic about the possibilities of what Adelaide might hold for us. As the landscape changed to unfamiliar gum trees and brown …
A couple of weeks ago, my Dad asked me if I could tell him again what we’ll be doing in QLD with Church2Church. My guess is you might share his question, so I thought I’d use this post to try to explain what Kath and I will be doing up …
Church2Church has contact with a number of churches around Australia where you may be able to take up a ministry role with Church2Church resourcing support. Please contact us to discuss these possibilities, or to discuss receiving Church2Church resourcing support for a ministry appointment you are planning to enter. If you …
