Missions
Our Church has a strong focus on both overseas and local gospel work. Our church has sent 33 of our members into fulltime Christian service, both within Australia and overseas. Currently we support financially:
- 3 Global Interaction Australia mission partners (G.I.A)
- 1 Serving In Mission worker (S.I.M.)
- 1 Global Recording Network worker (G.R.N.)
- 1 Child Evangelism Fellowship worker(C.E.F.)
They serve in such diverse places as Malawi, Mozambique, Southern Africa, Central and South-East Asia. We have adopted the YAO people of Malawi and Mozambique.
In addition our Members serve beyond our own Fellowship with Christian Community Aid in Eastwood, Baptist Community Services and at Hope Street in the inner Sydney city area.
" "Dafarasha, get up! Up and run! The slave traders are here! Quickly! Run to the forest and hide. Now! Run!" His mother grabbed her son off the mat on the dirt floor. She pushed the still groggy lad out the door. The boy gasped at the pandemonium in the village. Terrified people were running in all directions. Armed men with whips and ropes were chasing them. Here and there struggles took place as the captured ones were subdued and tied up. A gunshot sounded nearby and the distress cry echoed across the valley. "Run and hide," his mother shouted again... "
This enthralling account of mission life in the front line as experienced by the author Dick McLellan, supported by his wife Vida, serving with SIM for 23 years in Ethiopia, is now available from Dick for $15, plus postage & packaging.
Contact Dick McLellan: dickmcllelan@bigpond.com or PO Box 1221, Eastwood 2122.
"Messengers of Ethiopia" is the sequel to Dick's first book "Warriors of Ethiopia" and it is recommended that they are read in order.
Dick wrote "not to tell our missionary stories, but to record the stories of the men and women of Ethiopia who took the stories of Jesus into the dark places of that country".
In this book Dick vividly brings to life more of the lives of these Ethiopian messengers, people who as "lambs among wolves", went out to bring peace, hope and reconciliation. And alas, many of whom it could be said, "the world was not worthy".
