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28 August 2024

Embargo until Friday 30 August

Shining a light on homelessness - Local community advocate Ben

Smith wins 2024 Victorian Father of the Year Award

Devoted Dad and CEO of the Mornington Community Support Centre Ben Smith is the 2024 Victorian Father of the Year and will be honoured at a special ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall. Lord Mayor Nick Reece will be joined by 2002 winner Barry Novy OAM in announcing the winner of this year’s award.

The worship coordinators for the World Conference in June 2025 are looking for musicians

Love Bites is an evidence based program....

This is an online ministry sponsored by the Greater Pacific Northwest USA Mission Center for Community of Christ.  The North American Climate Justice Team are the planners, with members from GPNWMC, Canada East, Canada West, IWMC, SPMC, and SPIMC. 

c+ Camp for year 7 up to 20 years.

A weekend to remember - Save the date - 26-27th October 2024. Registration and program out soon.

I am thrilled to announce that Meredith Carr has been designated as the new Australia Mission Centre President for the Australia Mission Centre, subject to approval by an Australian Mission Centre Conference.

Anna Anderson lives in Brisbane with her two daughters Holly and Cloe….

All are welcome

This week, 13 young adults and youth from across Australia have been actively participating in SPEC Week at Graceland University, Iowa, USA! SPEC (Spectacular) is an annual summer camp event organised by the Community of Christ, specifically designed for high school students and young adults from around the world.

On Sunday, July 7th, thirteen youth and young adults, accompanied by five leaders, set off on…

I am delighted to announce that the Mission Centre will be hosting Dr Matt Frizzell for a 2 week visit at the end of October. Matt currently serves as Denominational Administrator, Community of Christ, Chicago, where he leads a team of Human Resource professionals serving approximately 200 ministers across the U.S.A. and in twenty countries in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. He was formerly the Dean of the church seminary, and before that, campus minister at Graceland University. I served with Matt on the Standing High Council a decade ago. 

Most of us are familiar with the Parable of the Sower. At the end of the parable Jesus says, “If you have ears, Listen!” I know I will be listening with both ears this Sunday when I tune into Australia Worships On-Line when we will hear Emma Ghazarian from Victoria share with us her insights about the Parable of the Sower. I’m sure there will be plenty of fertile ground to spread the seeds of joy, hope, love and peace when we fellowship together. I look forward to seeing you there as well. RT

Who’s coming? 

 So far we have about 200 people registered. Our special guest Minister is Stassi Cramm, member of Community of Christ First Presidency. Stassi was recently called to serve as next President of Community of Christ, and will be the first woman to serve in that role. Stassi resides in the United States and will be joined at Tiona by her husband, Stephen.  

On Sunday, June 30th, 75 individuals participated in a virtual Special Mission Center Conference where delegates approved the 2024-2025 Mission Center Budget, along with a presentation of the Saints Care Budget.  

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The Special Mission Centre Conference will be held virtually on June 30th at 2:00 p.m. AEST. The agenda will include a consideration of financial reports and budgets and a presentation from the Ministry and Mission Steering Committee summarising the 5 main projects being explored in the next phase of the process, and new ways to get involved.

June 9th  Conference Updates 

It was cold but we hot to trot, on the road to transformation. The recent long weekend  8-11th June 2024 brought together many team members from 4 working groups formed by the Ministry and Mission Steering Committee. Over 20 people gathered at Community of Christ,  Frankston Victoria, along with online participants to work together prioritizing close to 40 presentations that were put forward to be considered as part of the transformation journey. A detailed report of the process led by Anne Faulke and Jenny Robinson, along with an update on the next stages of the program, will be shared over the coming months.

Dear family of faith,

I warmly welcome you to this Australian Mission Center Conference. For those of you present online and those who cannot be with us today, I share these following words from my heart and assure you that, even though I won’t be present at this online conference, you are in our thoughts and prayers.