A Church Reforming to Reach the Lost for Christ

Christian Reformed Churches of Australia

GROW

“To grow healthy churches which nurture and equip their members and, by God’s grace, expand numerically, become the mother-churches of as many fellowships and congregations as possible, and take further initiatives to penetrate structures of society with the gospel. ”

  • Church Planting Taskforce

    The Church Planting Taskforce encourages CRCA churches in the task of planting churches throughout Australia.

    The CPT engages in research on:

    • the effectiveness of multiplying congregations;
    • models of church reinvigoration and church planting;
    • the financial development of congregations;
    • the base numbers and goal numbers of the mission of planting churches (the base numbers equals where we start, and goal numbers indicates
      what we're aiming for);
    • the areas (geographical and sociological) where we are not reaching the community;
    • where we can have the most effective outreach.

     

    Check out our current church plants:  Current Church Plants

  • GOSPEL

    (Gujarat Outreach Support by Planting churches, Economic change and Literacy training) is a GROW sub-Committee that raises short-term support for indigenous evangelists who are planting churches in India. GOSPEL was set up primarily for CRCA congregations and individuals to partner with the emerging and growing church in the Central West of India. That region of India was selected because it seemed that there God opened a door for the Gospel in a land where a huge number of unbelieving image bearers live in difficult circumstances.

    GOSPEL officially began in mid 2002 with a team of 10 evangelists who would aim to plant two house churches in a two year time frame. Now there are some 40 evangelists hard at work spreading the good news. As well as church planting, we are also involved in children literacy programmes and hope to get started also with health and economic development programmes.

  • Solomon Islands - SWIM

    As a mission community of Christ-centered people we will provide effective, practical, compassionate support and Bible based teaching and equipping ministries to build up Christians and establish self-reliant communities in Solomon Islands using our base facilities, resources, and the talents of our long and short term team members.

  • World Transform

    World Transform is our official denominational ministry "showing mercy – in Christ's name". We mainly work in deed ministries in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

    Our living God is deeply concerned for sinful humanity. Following our Saviour's example, the Church in this world is to reach out to those in spiritual need with the message of the gospel. For those who have physical needs (the sick, the suffering, the orphans and the widows) we are to reach out with deeds of love and compassion.

    The CRCA established World Development and Relief back in 1965.  Since 2015 this ministry assumed its new name World Transform.   It is a GROW committee with the instruction to minister – in the Name of the Lord of mercy – to the spiritual and physical needs of all those in distress, including through natural disasters, war and hostilities, irrespective of sex, race or creed. World Transform represents the whole denomination in this task.

  • Church Health Network

    Healthy churches are growing churches. The CRCA is committed to assist churches so that local initiatives are leveraged for gospel and kingdom growth.   CRCA Ministry Formation will assist churches in their respective state to maximise church health in areas such as: the marks of the true church as identified in the Belgic Confession; CRCA Church Order distinctives: worship, faith nurture, pastoral care and oversight, and missions; the eight characteristics of a healthy church as identified by NCD; and other church health issues raised by individual congregations.

  • Local Church Outreach

    The local church outreach representative shall collaborate with GROW and the Ministry Development Coach to:

    • Raise awareness of local church outreach as a core value of the CRCA, giving attention to relevant issues of CRCA church ethos
    • Collaborate and communicate with local church councils and Classes to:

    o mobilise church members toward effective outreach and sharing of the good news of Jesus, taking care to understand and respect each unique local church context
    o suggest relevant resources (e.g. material from other church contexts, stories and examples of best practise in the CRCA)
    o raise items of prayer via email and other media (see Task 1, Four Fold Task), encouraging churches and their members to fervently seek the Lord’s blessing in this work

    • Do this work with a view to CRCA churches and members effectively reaching the lost for Christ