Monthly Archives: June 2019

Baptist, News

NAIDOC Week: 7-14 July

NAIDOC Week | 7-14 July
NAIDOC Week: Voice Treaty Truth
NAIDOC Week's celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year, NAIDOC Week runs from July 7-14 and it’s a great opportunity for all Australians to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

The 2019 National NAIDOC theme is Voice. Treaty. Truth; Let’s work together for a shared future.

Voice, treaty and truth were three key elements to the reforms set out in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. These reforms represent the unified position of First Nations Australians. It is also an opportunity to hear Australia's Aboriginal voice with this year being the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages.

The NAIDOC Week website says, “Our message, developed through generations, is echoed throughout the land: hear our voice and recognise our truth. We call for a new beginning, marked by a formal process of agreement and truth-telling, that will allow us to move forward together.”

 

Click on the links below to Get Involved!

  • Visit the NAIDOC Week website to learn more
  • Download and print the NAIDOC history timeline
  • Find a NAIDOC Week event near you
  • Celebrate at your church with Common Grace
    Brooke Prentis, Common Grace’s Aboriginal Spokesperson, will be preaching at Canberra Baptist Church on Sunday 7 July. This sermon will be videoed and available for churches to use and play in your church services on Sunday 14 July. Church resources including bible reading and prayer to go with the video sermon will also be provided. Sign up to receive Common Grace's church resources to use on Sunday 14 July.
Baptist

NAIDOC Week: 7-14 July

NAIDOC Week | 7-14 July
NAIDOC Week: Voice Treaty Truth
NAIDOC Week's celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year, NAIDOC Week runs from July 7-14 and it’s a great opportunity for all Australians to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

The 2019 National NAIDOC theme is Voice. Treaty. Truth; Let’s work together for a shared future.

Voice, treaty and truth were three key elements to the reforms set out in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. These reforms represent the unified position of First Nations Australians. It is also an opportunity to hear Australia's Aboriginal voice with this year being the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages.

The NAIDOC Week website says, “Our message, developed through generations, is echoed throughout the land: hear our voice and recognise our truth. We call for a new beginning, marked by a formal process of agreement and truth-telling, that will allow us to move forward together.”

 

Click on the links below to Get Involved!

  • Visit the NAIDOC Week website to learn more
  • Download and print the NAIDOC history timeline
  • Find a NAIDOC Week event near you
  • Celebrate at your church with Common Grace
    Brooke Prentis, Common Grace’s Aboriginal Spokesperson, will be preaching at Canberra Baptist Church on Sunday 7 July. This sermon will be videoed and available for churches to use and play in your church services on Sunday 14 July. Church resources including bible reading and prayer to go with the video sermon will also be provided. Sign up to receive Common Grace's church resources to use on Sunday 14 July.

Source: BUV News

Baptist

Changing lives one Big Step at a time

 

Big Step Weekend was an initiative started 7 years ago at Crossway, with the goal of communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ & partnering with our Crossway parents at the same time. Whilst an individual profession of faith in Jesus Christ is an individual’s decision, we believe that it is really important for parents and children to be together when a decision like this is made.

On Big Step Weekend, we invite and encourage all parents of primary school aged children to join us in our primary ministry rooms, for a dramatic presentation of the Gospel. Any child wanting to make a first-time commitment to follow Christ are joined by their parents or small group leader and they are led through a time of prayer and reflection by one of Crossway’s Children and Families Pastors. Family groups are then given a ‘Big Step Booklet’ that contains discussion topics, bible passage studies and prayer resources to assist our Crossway parents in the continued discipleship of their child.

For the remainder of the kids and parents who either have already made the ‘Big Step’ to follow Jesus, or are not ready to take the ‘Big Step’ to follow Jesus, they are led through an intentional family activity designed to move families to have meaningful conversations together in reflection to the presentation they have just seen.

Over the years of running Big Step Weekend at Crossway, we have seen many hundreds of children place their trust in Jesus for the very first time. Just last month, we saw over 78 first time commitments from our Primary school children! It is so encouraging to see God at work so powerfully, changing lives one Big Step at a time.

 

Source: BUV News

Baptist, News

Changing lives one Big Step at a time

 

Big Step Weekend was an initiative started 7 years ago at Crossway, with the goal of communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ & partnering with our Crossway parents at the same time. Whilst an individual profession of faith in Jesus Christ is an individual’s decision, we believe that it is really important for parents and children to be together when a decision like this is made.

On Big Step Weekend, we invite and encourage all parents of primary school aged children to join us in our primary ministry rooms, for a dramatic presentation of the Gospel. Any child wanting to make a first-time commitment to follow Christ are joined by their parents or small group leader and they are led through a time of prayer and reflection by one of Crossway’s Children and Families Pastors. Family groups are then given a ‘Big Step Booklet’ that contains discussion topics, bible passage studies and prayer resources to assist our Crossway parents in the continued discipleship of their child.

For the remainder of the kids and parents who either have already made the ‘Big Step’ to follow Jesus, or are not ready to take the ‘Big Step’ to follow Jesus, they are led through an intentional family activity designed to move families to have meaningful conversations together in reflection to the presentation they have just seen.

Over the years of running Big Step Weekend at Crossway, we have seen many hundreds of children place their trust in Jesus for the very first time. Just last month, we saw over 78 first time commitments from our Primary school children! It is so encouraging to see God at work so powerfully, changing lives one Big Step at a time.