Our church family is very committed to helping others – those down the street and across the world.
We respond occasionally to appeals for funding and prayer, as a church and as individuals. Our prayer and financial support is focused mainly in two areas:
area one – ASIA
We support three mission organisations working in various nations
1.
P & J served with in East Asia for 20 years. They have been involved in discipleship for new believers, mentoring church leaders, as well as training in Christian marriage and family, cross-cultural ministry, interpreting the Bible and children’s work. They have 3 children who have grown up in East Asia. In 2013 they returned to Australia and they have been ministering to East Asian students. Before Covid-19 there were 750,000 international students in our universities. Some of these become Christians through campus ministries. 3 out of 5 will return home within five years, but sadly of those 50-80% will abandon their faith within a year. P & & provide training, support and mentoring to better prepare students to thrive in their faith when they return home to East Asia.
2.
Shine and Jessica live in Thailand, home to the largest unreached people group in the world, where less than 1% of people are Christian. They also serve in nearby countries, where the church is larger but faces persecution. These countries are places of stunning beauty and warm hospitality but face challenging social issues, such as human trafficking, the breakdown of families, under-developed healthcare and education, and political instability. God is lovingly committed to the health, peace, prosperity, and stability of South East Asia – for individuals, families, and communities. As Interserve team leaders, Shine and Jessica develop and promote vision, link people and projects together, and support God’s co-workers to help bring transformation and hope to the people of South East Asia. Their main role is to inspire, support and equip about fifty missionaries from more than ten countries as they fulfil God’s call on their lives.
Shine was born in India but grew up in Dubai, and has a passion for broken and hurting people to know God’s good news. While studying at Moore College, Jessica heard God’s call to serve the church. She went on to teach at a Bible college in her first service with Interserve. Shine and Jessica met and married in India and have two sons, Oswin and Tamim.
3.
Through Global Mission Partners we are paying the yearly salary of an evangelist working in Bangladesh. Vana Bawm is the General Secretary of the Bandarban Hills Churches of Christ, and a member of the Bawm tribe, the only Christian group out of 11 tribal communities. The evangelist we support is one of seven who are passionate about ministering and serving the tribal Mru community in Bangladesh. Despite their location in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, these evangelists are living in a predominantly Muslim, Buddhist and animist setting. They have little in terms of material resources, but they have the courage, faithfulness and compassion to reach the Mru people.
Area Two – our local schools
Along with other local churches, we support Special Religious Education in our primary and secondary schools.
The SRE program in our local primary schools is done by a committed team of people in administration, resourcing and face to face teaching. Administered from Kincumber Anglican Church our local team of teachers are in several schools, including Pretty Beach Public School.
Brisbane Waters Secondary College has a junior and senior campus in Woy Woy. HBCC was instrumental in commencing a ministry on each campus many years ago, which now prays and pays for two full time SRE teachers. Both teachers cover classes from Yrs 7 to 10, and are very well respected and valued across the whole school community. There is a great deal of one-to-one ministry with the students, as well as classroom teaching.
