Engage with our community
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Dave Sheath in Our Aims
We want to have positive engagement with everyone in the Tuggerah Lakes area. We want to show our community just how good it is to follow Jesus.
Over the past year we have had a wonderful time engaging with our community.
- The gingerbread house event had over 300 people in attendance.We continue to increase the number of classes of School Scripture with 29 teachers from The Lakes.
- We continue to increase the number of classes of School Scripture with 29 teachers from The Lakes.
- We have a key role with Ourimbah Christian Students at Ourimbah University.
- Good News Week continues to be a terrific week of engaging with our community. This year we had over 300 kids – over 100 of them are not normally part of our church family! The adults tent showed hospitality to almost 200 adults, and 130 people volunteered their time, money and energy to make the week a great success.
Engaging goals for 2010:
- We want to distribute 2,000 gospels throughout our local community.
- We want every member of our church actively praying for three Non-Christians.
- We want to give every member of our church the opportunity to prayerfully consider how best they can engage with their Non-Christian family, friends and neighbours.
Connect for Life
During 2009 we joined in the “Connect 09″ campaign initiated by Sydney Anglicans. During the year we gave away many resources designed to help our community come to know Jesus.
- We gave away over 6,000 copies of Luke’s gospel (“The Essential Jesus”).
- We also ordered and distributed over 4,000 copies of Colin Buchanan’s DVD to primary school children in our region.
- We also gave away hundreds of “What’s happening at The Lakes?” DVDs.
What was “Connect 09″ now becomes “Connect for Life”. We want to keep the momentum of outreach that we have enjoyed in the past year as we head into 2010.
During 2010 we will continue to engage in a doorknocking campaign throughout our area but this needs to be a grass-roots outreach where all our members are committed to engaging with the community in a whole host of ways.
