Ministers
eNews Oct 2011 - Affinity Ministers Conversation
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 12:55
Affinity Ministers Conversation
10am-1.30pm, Tuesday October 25, 2011
LifeGate church, 758 Waverley Rd Glen Waverley (Mel71, D5)
All People in Ministry in Churches of Christ are specifically invited to dialogue with the Affinity 3.0 resource and also the feedback from churches. This will be a vital opportunity to shape the next phase of the Affinity conversation, and an ideal way to help your church be meaningfully represented.
People in Ministry in Churches of Christ can RSVP to Claire by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , including dietary requirements.
A free lunch will be provided for those who register.
More information about the ongoing Affinity discussions can be found here.
Vale Keith D Horne
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:00
Vale: K.D. Horne
We received last week news of the death in Adelaide (following a stroke) of Keith Horne, most recently a member of the ministry team at Marion in SA, but before that the longest serving minister at Doncaster church here in Melbourne. Keith originally came from Queensland, and from outside our movement, but he had a profound influence on Churches of Christ, and many of our leaders, through his earlier Conference-wide leadership in Queensland and South Australia, as well as his 14 years at Doncaster. His Doncaster ministry including a significant involvement in the final-year formation of minister-leaders at the College of the Bible (then CCTC, now Stirling).
Keith was one of the great minister-leaders in our movement in the era in which he served. His love for people, his compassion for those in need, his capacity to build community and to work with and integrate ministry and mission within the wider community is a good model still for those in ministry-leadership. Doncare, a community care and counseling provider in Doncaster, is one of the many living legacies of Keith’s big-picture ministry and care. He was also involved in the formation of a similar community care project in Marion.
Keith was Vic/Tas Conference President in 1979.
A service of thanksgiving for Keith will be held at Marion church in Adelaide on Tuesday August 30 at 1pm.Vale Harold Gross
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:00
Vale: Harold Gross
We also received news last week of the death of Harold Gross in Thailand. Harold was a graduate of the College of the Bible (now CCTC) in the late 1940s, and had ministries in Australia, New Zealand and in the United Kingdom, before spending nearly 40 years in Thailand. There he lived out the deeper aspects of our story of unity and mission. It was wonderful to hear that another Vic/Tas minister in Thailand, Ash Barker of Urban Neighbours Of Hope (UNOH), was able to visit and pray with Harold just prior to his passing.
Harold was deeply involved in the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT). CCT is the largest Protestant church in Thailand, and is engaged in active social efforts (health care, medical work, hospitals, universities, schools) and ecumenical movements in local society. In 1998 Churches of Christ in Vic/Tas signed a Memorandum of Understanding enabling the UNOH team to receive visas and facilitated the partnership with the Community Centre in Klong Toey, a partnership that has moved into other areas now too. Harold was a helpful link in this process. Until his death he maintained a strong connection with the many partners in mission from all around the world who are working throughout Thailand.Recommended minimum salary package for ministers review
Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:45
Affinity 3.0 Church Discussions
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:22
Since 2007 the Council of Churches of Christ in Victoria and Tasmania Inc. has invited dialogue with affiliated churches about our shared identity and purpose. Emerging from this is the current conversation about what it means to be part of a network of churches being renewed as a 21st Century missional movement. This dialogue has taken place in a range of ways, including several Annual General Meetings, Dreaming Days (2007 and 2010), as well as two rounds of regional conversations and other less organised interaction too.
