Pastors Conference 2022

Dear Church,

Over the next week it is my privilege to be taking with me Rich and Rebs, Joel and Jamie, Arbie, and John over to the US for our annual Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors and Wives Conference! This is a unique time where we will be able to experience the joy of our fellowship as a family of churches. It is amazing that we can all go as a team to both be strengthened and to encourage our brothers and sisters. We LOVE our family of Churches and as an expression of our partnership it is crucial we make trips like this, when we can!

We will also be traveling with Dave and Em Taylor, Brendan Willis, Austin and Ivy Loke, and Andrew and John Leung from the Wahroonga church. So there is quite a crew of us.

Most of us are heading to Covenant Fellowship Church in Pennsylvania first, which means we will get to see Abi Chavez (for those who are new, Abi was a founding member of SG Parra, and was on our Core Team as the SG Kids director before she left for an Internship at Cov Fel). We will also be visiting some friends you may know from the Prophecy Team, Bill and Romona Doyle, as well as Andy Farmer, Mark Prater, Jared Mellinger etc. It’s going to be a blast.

I will be heading out to Redeemer Newark to visit a church plant out of Cov Fellowship, led by Joel Shorey. I will get a chance to hang with those guys and send a big greeting from our church to them :)

On Monday 31st October will the Council of Elders, where one delegate from every SG church participates in a 9 hour long Pastor’s Meeting receiving updates, encouragement, and where we put forward items for discussion and debate about our global family.

And then from Tues to Thur is our Pastor’s Conference where there will be 700 Pastors and wives from the US and all over the world. Dave Taylor is speaking at one of the sessions, so please pray for him in that! It is our 40th Anniversary as Sovereign Grace Churches, so it is a very very special time to mark God’s faithfulness and grace. I know for myself and Maddie, our lives have been radically and fundamentally changed and blessed by being in Sovereign Grace, and it is our hope to be here for at least the next 40 years!

If you can, please pray for our time away, that the Lord will use it many powerful and mighty ways in our soul, in our team, and for the good of our church and ultimately, the glory of God all over the world!

I am going to miss you guys as I head out, again! I look forward to seeing you and giving you a report when I return. Aiming to get off the plane on Nov 6 and see you at church!

It is a joy and privilege to be your pastor and I will be boasting in you wherever I go!

Grace and Peace!

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