Church Structure Review
The Church Structure Review process is currently working on various structure models for the church. Please join us at the official ‘Structure Review – Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia’ page to learn more about these models....
Testimonial from ADRA – Food Hub @ Wantirna
It has been & continues to be an amazing, rewarding, faith affirming experience. Running the new Food Hub at Wantirna has been an incredibly busy time and I've had a huge learning curve as we definitely started running before we could crawl. The support that we...
Basics of Starting a Food Pantry…
Get a team together Make it a team of trustworthy people who have transport and WWC checks. Contact Bec at ADRA for advice, assistance and help! (see reasons to involve ADRA below) Have your church board approve the pantry for policy purposes. Get a place to store...
Creative Arts Festival
Nunawading Christian College Primary ran a Creative Arts Festival Day, as a way of focusing on student wellbeing during the difficult time of remote learning due to Stage 3 and 4 restrictions. Students participated in a range of creative activities, watching video...
God-driven Encounters
The Adventist Book Centre has been kept very busy with web store orders since the start of Covid 19. However since Stage 4 restrictions came in three weeks ago our orders have nearly doubled each day and the staff have had a number of God-driven encounters. In the...
People Coming to God…
Johnny Wong, Gateway Adventist Centre member, has found something good that has come out of the COVID-19 lock down. Opportunities for people’s heart to turn to Jesus for hope in an uncertain future are being created. “We rejoice in the four baptisms despite the...
Answered Prayer
Jared recently shared some of his personal situation during a phone conversation with Pr Trevor Rowe. It was obvious to Trevor that Jared urgently needed a vehicle to be able to find work, so Trevor immediately began to pray for a solution. Soon afterwards, the Lord...
Church is Still Happening – Wantirna
At Wantirna, new challenges have also provided new opportunities. The “usual” continues to occur on a weekly basis – livestreamed services via YouTube and Facebook, Sabbath schools via zoom, and weekly meetings called “Virtual Family Rooms” (VFR), both immediately...
Congratulations Emanuel
Congratulations Emanuel. Avondale University College approached Emanuel to fill a need in teaching position that will be online. The initial plan had been for him to go to Avondale for the first two weeks, in August to meet people and get set up, however Victoria's...
Online Survey Results
During this time of pandemic, our church families have continued to meet online and within the government guidelines. Recently we ran a short survey on our social media, with some interesting results… 76% of these respondents were under 40. 90% of our churches have...
Avenue Church
We as Avenue church have the vision to be a younger generation of God-driven influencers who enhance the Advent message; awakened by the Holy Spirit to make the love of Jesus tangible to the unchurched. In October last year, the dream of Avenue church was placed on my...
Steve’s Story
Steve Munsuang was born in Myanmar, a son of a Seventh-day Adventist preacher and teacher of the Gospel. He is now a ministerial intern, working with Ringwood Church. Here is his testimony. I was born to a Seventh-day Adventist family and as a son of a preacher and...
The Hunter Chronicles
Tony Knight and Amanda Bew's Hunter Chronicles are now available as audiobooks. Well, the first two volumes are and Tony is currently working on the remainder. Each volume in The Hunter Chronicles series unpacks seven great teachings from the Bible. The chapters in...
Welcome to the Team
Pr Laien Hao made the move to Australia after receiving a call to serve in Gateway Adventist Church. He has previously served as youth director and regional director for the Chinese Union in Hong Kong. He is passionate about sharing the gospel and especially in...
Youth Ministry in a Pandemic
For the past 5-ish months, VicYouth has been continuing to minister in unprecedented territory! As a department, we minister to, serve and connect young people through events, which we have not been able to do in-person since lockdowns began in mid-March. The forced...
Church is still Happening – Warragul and Longwarry
Have you given any thought to how our country churches are coping with the ever changing status of restrictions? In that brief hiatus of 'freedom' we had, some of the churches with memberships small enough were able to carry on as 'usual'. Sadly it did not last...
Smarter than She Knew
All her life, Karren had been told she had a disability and no one trusted her to make decisions. Get told you are not smart enough often enough and you'll believe it. As a result, Karren did not learn to read or write, and believing she was not smart enough, felt...
60 Years of Service
Dorothy Davis was born and raised on the family farm at Weerite in Victoria where she still lives today. Her father, Joseph Stewart, was a founding member of Camperdown Adventist Church and had held the office of treasurer from the church’s beginnings in 1926 until...
Online Centre of Influence
Supporting Local Churches to Support their Communities... CONCEPT In response to the stage 4 lockdown, we have the opportunity to be an encouraging, supportive voice in our communities. Harvest Victoria and Adventist Media are offering to support local churches to be...
Sharing What We Have
In the bible we read how God’s light shines through even in the darkest of times. Covid19 has brought uncertainty and darkness in 2020, but God’s light shines brighter. As a church community, Dandenong Filipino-Australian Church was called to serve our community as a...
Sabbath School with a Difference
Teen Sabbath School at Lilydale Church is thriving! Animal of the day, kahoot champions, interviews, animation tips and time to share lesson study are just part of the Sabbath School for High Schoolers. Each Sabbath since the closure of our church building around...
Finance Report August 2020
We are currently living in unprecedented times. Victoria has survived the devastation of bushfires at the beginning of the year only to be hit with the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we review the past months, however, we can still see God’s leading within our...
The New Avondale Experience
Avondale College, the “experiment on the Dora” is in its 124th year. And what a year that has turned out to be with the challenges of coronavirus. Professor Kevin Petrie is the newly appointed Vice Chancellor for the College. The Adventist Record recently shared this...
The Food Hub
Wantirna Church's “ADRA Food hub” only started a few months ago, but they have had so much involvement from the local church family. Struggling to find a way to make an impact in their community due to COVID-19, they started this food ministry to tell the community...