HOPE FAMILY NEWS

HOPE ADELAIDE: FAMILY DAY & CCM MULTICULTURAL NIGHT

Hope Adelaide had a special "Family Day" filled with fun activities and games for kids and everyone in the church and community.

CCM student group organised a special outreach event for orientation called "Multicultural Night". Thank God for many first time visitors on the night.

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HOPE AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Hi im Angela Soh with Hope Auckland, my family and I have been in Auckland for 8 years, we were in Hope Singapore before, and we took up the challenge to go to Auckland to resume the leadership there. It’s been a challenging 8 years, but exciting, and I must say that in the 8 years that we have been there we have never failed to see God not move in our midst, He’s always been there for us and done wonderful things.

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We started off with a very small group, but as time has progressed we have seen the birthing of CCM university care groups and last year the youth caregroup and this year has been really exciting, this year is break through and we are believing for break through in individuals lives, we are believing for break through in church and we are beginning to see that take place already

Student & Youth ministry in Auckland

In January this year we started an afternoon service in the west and we have been seeing new people come.

At CCM at the orientation this year we had a really good turn out with more than 17 new people signing up, not only that but that has since doubled our University caregorup numbers, so its really fantastic and we have just started recently, 8 young people in our church ranging from the ages of 15 – 21 who have committed themselves to come under training to be the future leaders of our church.

Take up the challenge

Now I really want to encourage whoever says to themselves I don’t think I can do much for the kingdom of God, that’s not true, God used my family, my kids who went there as very young kids, are now all serving actively Jared is 10 and he plays the guitar for kids church and both my girls are serving as leaders as well as in the worship team. If God can use them, God can use anyone, Thank you.

Bernard & Angela Soh, Hope Auckland

HOPE BUSSELTON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Hi, my name is Nigel Witter, I am the pastor of Hope Busselton Christian Church, Busselton is 3 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.

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Combined churches fasting & prayer

Things are doing very very well, last year the Lord placed on my heart to call a combined time of prayer and fasting, with all the churches in our area, that brought real break through, where we had people from all different churches praying and fasting and then after that we were leading people to the Lord every week.

New families added to the church

So towards the end of 2007, we had half a dozen plus baptisms and we had a few families join our church so we find ourselves after been, you know our family, I got a great family you know me and my wife and 5 kids just us and a handful of others, now we had some really strong families join us, quite a number of people.

So we are getting over 30 adults and 10 or more children and growing, and growing in excitement for the Lord..

We got excellent musicians and film makers, we got great prospects for the future, intend to plant more churches throughout western Australia and over seas locations One of our guys want to have some apostolic teams happening in other nations as well.

There’s tremendous sense of hope and faith of what the good things God is going to do.

Nigel and Sandy Wittner, Hope Busselton

HOPE HOBART, TASMANIA

Hello everyone my name is Shen, and its been really really good to see what God has been doing in the whole movement so far, and such a great privilege to be part of the great commission....

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Called by God to plant Hope Hobart and this has been the 3 years where we have gone forth and we have seen God doing tremendous things during these 3 years.

The church has grown from strength to strength we have around 20 -25 people in our church these days, since starting 3 years ago where we only had 3 people.

And God has been so amazing when we went forth, he has provided me with a job and promotions after promotions he has given to me and even though I am working full time, and just preaching, worship leading, chairing every Sunday, a lot of things I' m just so impressed by the Grace of God. The grace of God and the love of God that is always there that God is Emmanuel always with us as we go forth.

And I want to encourage you, if God has a calling and a burden for your life to be part of the Great Commission I want to encourage you to go forth, because as you go forth the grace is there....

and that you will flourish and I want to encourage you to obey him for that is the plan that he has for your life. And there’s no other purpose no other plans that you can ever have that is better than Gods plan for you. Thank you

Shen Yee, Hope Hobart - Tasmania

HOPE OURIMBAH: CENTRAL COAST

Hi my name is Danny, im from Hope Newcastle; we are the core leaders there. And in the last year I’ve been out to plant a new church in the central coast, in a place called Ourimbah, which is about 45 minutes south of Newcastle.

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I just wanted to share, over the last few years, God has been challenging me to get involved in church planting, and fulfilling the great commission through filling the hope movement’s vision.

About the end of February 2007, myself and 2 others launched Hope Ourimbah Christian church and it has been really exciting, God has done some really great things, some of the things he has done is that he has grown each of the team members so amazingly, it has been one of the best growth growing times of our lives. He has brought us together as a family and also added new people to our little church family.

We have about 10 people involved at the moment and God has brought some really key people to get involved and have the heart to reach the central coast.

I really thank God for what he’s done, and the great work that he has been doing recently we just had O Week in the central coast.

We had 41 members join CCM which is really big for us and we praise God for that, and we see God adding key people and we really thank Him for that as well.

I am really enjoying Church planting, it’s been one of the most difficult but also one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and I want to spend the rest of my life doing it as well, even overseas or another place in Australia.

Praise God I just want to encourage you to be involved in Church planting, God is looking for someone who has a willing heart and who is willing to be used by Him, and Who wants to be trained and sent out, God can use you, don’t worry about your weaknesses, God will deal with those things, Gods going to use you, just have Faith.

So, I encourage you to step out, and come to Ourimbah, come help us church plant, or go to other places where God will call you.

Danny Whitbread, Hope Ourimba - Central Coast

HOPE KATANNING, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Hi my name is James, and this is my wife grace and we are under Pastor Steven, from Hope Perth Christian church and we have been challenged by our leader to go down to Katanning which is 4 hours away to pioneer a church there.

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It is a really great blessing and privilege that we can see the people, in Katanning the Chinese people, they have received the sprit and even been baptized.

We really believe that the great commission will be fulfilled, that thru all the brother n sister joining hands together we pray that we will see the Katanning centre will be planted and biblically to be fulfilled with the vision of hope. We really want to thank God as well for the many opportunities we have had with the Chinese.

Wee had a sports day for Chinese people and we also celebrated Chinese new year and about 40 people attended, and we had 2 people been baptized, whole family been baptized, so that’s a great start to our centre at Katanning.

James & Grace, Hope Katanning - Western Australia