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On this Good Friday, Dr. Elijah Brown, General Secretary of Baptist World Alliance,  brings […]

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Jor Hope Pe (Jordan) is the founder of Sharing Hope, a nonprofit organisation that embodies community in action. A Karen refugee himself, Jordan’s experience has led him to creating the dynamic, relational and grassroots NGO, which represents a decade of partnership with Karen refugees in Victoria and their Australian neighbours, as they work in community-led aid and reconstruction projects in refugee camps, IDP camps, schools and villages in Thailand and Karen State, Burma.

With the ease of restrictions in Victoria, celebrations were at hand with the induction of new senior pastors Rob Tanner from New Life Baptist Church, Ross Barnes from Koondrook/Barham Baptist Church and Paul Pallot at Warrnambool Baptist Church.

The BUV took part in the Surrender Melbourne Mini Festival, which was an occasion of much joy and deep pondering as the Surrender community gathered together for their first in-person event on Saturday, 13 March 2021 at Mitcham Baptist Church.

A great day out with Ordinands for our third week with Mission Catalyst. Interviews and prayers were held at Mill Park for the three new church plants as well as our newest member Danny, presenting on Grassroots Placemakers at Olivine.

The Mission Catalyst Team held a Refresh Retreat Day and a Missional Imagination Workshop to both spend time with each other being refreshed by God’s Word as well as engaging with pastors about unpacking what missional imagination would look like if the church community was activated for local and neighbourhood mission.

Pastors and leaders at the BUV’s Edge 10:10 program gathered together to discuss the topic of ‘Facing Conflict Well’. The successful day included shared experiences among pastors when facing conflict as well as identifying the many gifts available to them when facing conflict within their own churches and communities.

An encouraging day for the COACH and BUV teams, as we launched our first Empowered Faith Community learning and training experience where representatives of churches from Geelong, Bendigo, Sale and places across the metropolitan Melbourne area came together to be trained in reaching people and helping them flourish.

It was a privilege to share in the commissioning of the Houses of Hope at St Kilda Baptist on Sunday, 21 March. Two apartments owned by the church are now housing asylum seekers in a joint partnership between Baptcare, an unsolicited gift provided through the benevolent arm of the House of the Gentle Bunyip, and St Kilda Baptist Benevolent Society (SKBBS), a registered charity associated with the church.