In The Community

‘World evan­gel­isa­tion requires the whole church to take the whole gos­pel to the whole world’

PHILOSOPHY
The Min­istry and Mis­sion arm of Ken­more Baptist Church is to ful­fil the fourth area of the Church’s over­all pur­pose state­ment: To com­mu­nic­ate Christ to the world. We attempt to achieve this through:

• Lov­ing and caring rela­tion­ship with unbelievers
• Ongo­ing repro­duc­tion of our life in Christ by evangelism
• Pen­et­ra­tion of our soci­ety and the world by dis­ciple­ship that meets needs.

Our core val­ues include the following:

• We believe that lost and needy people through­out the world mat­ter to God, and there­fore ought to mat­ter to the church and its people
• We believe that the church should be cul­tur­ally rel­ev­ant while remain­ing doc­trin­ally pure

The mis­sion of Ken­more Baptist Church is “to turn spir­itual seekers into fully com­mit­ted fol­low­ers of Jesus Christ.”

We have a four-​​fold strategy:

TO WIN
Many min­istry activ­it­ies are run by the church to con­nect our people with non-​​Christians, and provide oppor­tun­ity for evan­gel­ism to take place. Social and sport­ing activ­it­ies such as Inter­na­tional Nights, net­ball, soc­cer, rock­climb­ing, out­door adven­ture activ­it­ies — Hori­zons, canoe­ing, bush walks are included. We invite the unchurched to join these events.
We estab­lish con­tacts and build bridges of friend­ship with people in our com­munity, offer­ing assist­ance as needed in order to share the love of Christ. We also run out­reach ser­vices and major per­form­ances by our Dir­ec­tions Musical Com­pany in an attempt to reach the unchurched. For new migrants and over­seas stu­dents, we assist with ele­ment­ary Eng­lish classes. Dur­ing the winter school hol­i­days, we run our annual Kids Hol­i­day Club.
All in all, through our lives and lips, we com­mu­nic­ate the gos­pel. When the time is right, we lead seekers to make a per­sonal com­mit­ment to our Lord Jesus Christ.

TO BUILD
We work in con­junc­tion with the Cul­tiv­a­tion arm of KENMORE BAPTIST CHURCH to help estab­lish the faith of new believ­ers. Here, they are nur­tured through a pro­gram of per­sonal follow-​​up, and the net­work of small groups.
Courses such as Alpha, Chris­tian­ity Explained, New Chris­tian Basics, 1 – 1 Dis­ciple­ship and 1 – 1 Evan­gel­ism train­ing are offered to assist people to grow and ulti­mately repro­duce themselves.

TO TRAIN
Accord­ing to their indi­vidual spir­itual gif­ted­ness, we put a grow­ing Chris­tian through a pro­cess of per­sonal devel­op­ment, SHAPE dis­cov­ery, min­istry place­ment, and fur­ther in-​​house min­istry train­ing so they might be an effect­ive part of the church’s min­istry and mission.

TO SEND
Like Abra­ham in the Old Test­a­ment, we believe we are blessed to be a bless­ing to oth­ers. Hence, we edu­cate and equip believ­ers in the faith to obey the teach­ings of Jesus Christ by encour­aging them to “Go… make dis­ciples of all nations”.
The Lausanne Cov­en­ant states, “World evan­gel­isa­tion requires the whole church to take the whole gos­pel to the whole world”. There­fore, we assist the Fel­low­ship in the area of com­mu­nic­at­ing Christ to the world through teach­ing, train­ing and min­istry involve­ment. Through­out the year, we motiv­ate our people to pray for mis­sions and sup­port our mis­sion­ar­ies. We also encour­age the respons­ive ones to par­ti­cip­ate in mis­sion by their fin­an­cial giv­ing and/​or going for short-​​term trips to the mis­sion field.
Undoubtedly, those who are called to serve God for an indef­in­ite period of time are worthy of our on-​​going sup­port. We con­tinue to increase our involve­ment by sup­port­ing homegrown mis­sion­ar­ies and those serving in mis­sion agencies.

How will these goals be realised?

• By pray­ing — mobil­iz­ing Small Groups and min­istry teams to pray for wis­dom and con­vic­tion, strength­en­ing our per­sonal, fam­ily and cor­por­ate life.
• By plan­ning — devel­op­ing a flight path that will facil­it­ate the real­ising of our goals; to stream­line our activ­it­ies to fit our over­all pur­pose statement.
• By prac­tising — enga­ging each team in our Fel­low­ship to own, pro­mote and real­ise our col­lect­ive God-​​given vis­ion and goals.
• By per­sever­ing — keep­ing the people focussed on the goal and not get side­tracked by sec­ond­ary activities.
• By pacing — remind­ing our people that we are in for the long haul, to keep every­one grow­ing stead­ily without los­ing heart.

THE FUTURE
The future is as bright as the prom­ises of God. We trust God will lead us bey­ond our present situ­ation and lead us on to greater heights. We need to con­tinue grow­ing deeply to BE God’s people as well as DO God’s work.