Big News!
During notices on Sunday I revealed some very exciting news about our church going forward in 2021! We will be taking some steps forward in a few ways:
Richard Song will be begin a ‘Pastoral Internship’ to discover whether God has called him to the task of being a Pastor. This means Richard will work for the church one day a week so that he has some dedicated time to study, practice ministry, and work with me.
I will be working for ‘Sovereign Grace Churches Australia’ for a couple of hours a week with the goal of trying to further establish our denomination here in Aus. Our hope is to spread the message far and wide that: “We are a highly relational denomination with a passion to see planters trained, pastors cared for, and enduring churches built all across Australasia” . If you know of anyone who is interested in becoming a pastor, planting a church, or being adopted into a denomination, please send them my way!
To make up for the time that I will spend doing that, I have hired Abigail Chavez as our new “Admin Assistant”. She will give about four hours a week to helping make our church function even more effectively. Her role is primarily to assist me in getting everything done for the church and to free me up to ensure I can focus on the tasks that are most essential for pastoral ministry.
Sadly, Rach Pettett is no longer continuing on doing our Bookkeeping. She has done an incredible job for both our church and Wahroonga and will be sorely missed. To fill her big shoes we have hired Jordan Pangan to be our Bookkeeper.
Finally, Sovereign Grace Parramatta is now legally separated from SG Wahroonga. This was always the plan, as theologically we believe that churches are to be independent whilst also being interdependent. This means that we now have all our own legals, accounting, finances, and our own director board. Nothing will really change on the ground level though, its more a formality!
Big changes! So please be praying for these new developments! As exciting as all this is let’s not get lost in the reality that there are hundreds of thousands of people who live in Parramatta City Area who do not know Jesus, we have SO much work to do, and so we ALL need to move forward on our knees in prayer and get moving on our toes in action!