Month: May 2021

Our second week of our relaunch was very cool with drone footage to prove it. Check out the video to get a glimpse of the action.

We had lots of fun eating some amazing Paella (big thank you to Stu, Brooke and Matt), we sang praises to our great God, we heard a cracker of a sermon from Stu and enjoyed a great time hanging out with over 50 of us.

We were able to build on our warm, welcoming and friendly vibe. We had the opportunity to try out a few things by using our new rugs and new lamps, it really is starting to feel very homely.

A couple of new people came to check out what is going on and one of our friends from Cronulla Anglican came to encourage us as well.

We are greatly encouraged that people are praying for us and are excited about what we are doing at Cronulla.

Let’s keep going and remain steadfast in prayer as we continue to share the truth and love of Jesus.

We’ve moved out of the workshop and hit the road with a relaunch. It was so good, I haven’t been able to stop smiling all week.

There were so many wonderful things that happened on the night, however here are some highlights and what our next steps are:

Food

To call it just food doesn’t do justice. The amazing spit roast and salads were a delight on a cool night. Many thanks to Richard, Stuart, Matt Daniels, Brian and the many others who organised the food, prepared the meat and served us our dinners.

We are one church

Relaunching was not something we did alone. Over the past few months, Stuart especially, has been working behind the scenes and publicly to remind us all that we are one Church. This was evident as 56 people joined together to support, encourage and celebrate our relaunch in this new space.

Newcomers

We welcomed some new people who wanted to check us out, a few people invited some friends, some of our commitment helpers and a couple of our friends from Cronulla Anglican joined us too.

It was a delight to hear from our Cronulla friends, Jeanette and Jack about our growing partnership, and their joy in working together to share the good news of Jesus.

The team

A huge thank you to our team who worked so hard and with so much joy as we tried something a bit different. I was blown away by the way we all chipped in a did what we could to make it such an amazing night. We have not only moved to Cronulla and out of the workshop, but we did it with a bang!

We are excited to announce that this weekend we are launching our second stage of Church Planting. At Soul Revival Church, we’ve taken an iterative design approach to our Church Planting. This means we are always evaluating and learning from what we are doing in each of our campuses. 

In the past we have used the term “Greenhouse” to describe our first stage of church planting. So what was the Greenhouse? We used the idea of the greenhouse, because that is where you would plant a seed, cultivate it and grow till it was ready to be taken out into the garden to be planted. The idea for this metaphor came from the book “the Trellis and the Vine”.

However, we also used another metaphor that we were using within our approach. It was the “Shock Absorber”, the idea that the young people of our church are the cultural Shock Absorbers to help the church to adjust to changes we face as a church.

Paul Tait, encouraged us to re-look at these metaphors, as it was confusing to have 2 different metaphors. So we came up with new way of thinking and talking about our Church plants and Church planting.

So, this weekend, we are launching our second stage called ‘Shock Absorber Church Planting’, as we seek to go to 7+ churches. 

Over the coming weeks and months, we will be explaining more about this exciting next stage of Shock Absorber Church Planting and how we can all be involved as ONE Church. You can find out more by watching the video below.

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