Steve is going into his second year as a ministry apprentice. With a year of study, ministry and all things ‘trainee’ under his belt, he is ready to tackle a whole host of challenges in 2025.
Among his areas of responsibility will be the ongoing care of his Gospel Community (GC) as he facilitates the little group of leaders loving and serving a somewhat large and diverse group of people.
Steve’s vision for his GC comes from Jesus’ prayer in John 17:20-23…
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Under the guidance of our pastors, he will also pick up the baton of facilitating newcomers and making some ground on clear and helpful pathways to engage, inform and connect people. Otherwise, the day-to-day bread and butter of Sunday preparations, leading, occasional preaching and the like will fill his days.
The other sphere of his ministry is undertaking his Graduate Diploma of Divinity. This entails four intensives in Sydney and a plethora of assessments on Christian Mentoring, as well as the exciting prospect of putting his learning into practice as he takes on a few mentees of his own.
Steve is a Puritan at heart and loves the work and writings of John Bunyan, C.S. Lewis and others of that ilk. He appreciates the work of Christians in the mental health space such as Dan Allander and Jeff Van Vonderan, but has primarily been influenced and encouraged by Mike and Cathy S (previous members of our church family) who lived a marriage of gospel unity, shared their lives deeply and invested in others with reckless intention. Steve’s first year of college has also added invaluable learning and understanding into the mental health and pastoral care space as he studied ‘The Christian Wholeness Framework’ under Dr John Warlow and Karen Nivala.
With the challenge to “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness” Steve has started the year with a great purge. Simplifying his circumstances and purging the fruitless things in his life, he is seeking to reinforce and maintain all things that see Jesus at the centre of his vision. He is also excited to lean into the memory verse space and loves the prospect of spurring on others (especially the youngins) to do likewise.
Steve is going into his second year as a ministry apprentice. With a year of study, ministry and all things ‘trainee’ under his belt, he is ready to tackle a whole host of challenges in 2025.
Among his areas of responsibility will be the ongoing care of his Gospel Community (GC) as he facilitates the little group of leaders loving and serving a somewhat large and diverse group of people.
Steve’s vision for his GC comes from Jesus’ prayer in John 17:20-23…
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Under the guidance of our pastors, he will also pick up the baton of facilitating newcomers and making some ground on clear and helpful pathways to engage, inform and connect people. Otherwise, the day-to-day bread and butter of Sunday preparations, leading, occasional preaching and the like will fill his days.
The other sphere of his ministry is undertaking his Graduate Diploma of Divinity. This entails four intensives in Sydney and a plethora of assessments on Christian Mentoring, as well as the exciting prospect of putting his learning into practice as he takes on a few mentees of his own.
Steve is a Puritan at heart and loves the work and writings of John Bunyan, C.S. Lewis and others of that ilk. He appreciates the work of Christians in the mental health space such as Dan Allander and Jeff Van Vonderan, but has primarily been influenced and encouraged by Mike and Cathy S (previous members of our church family) who lived a marriage of gospel unity, shared their lives deeply and invested in others with reckless intention. Steve’s first year of college has also added invaluable learning and understanding into the mental health and pastoral care space as he studied ‘The Christian Wholeness Framework’ under Dr John Warlow and Karen Nivala.
With the challenge to “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness” Steve has started the year with a great purge. Simplifying his circumstances and purging the fruitless things in his life, he is seeking to reinforce and maintain all things that see Jesus at the centre of his vision. He is also excited to lean into the memory verse space and loves the prospect of spurring on others (especially the youngins) to do likewise.