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In 2016 Carey Baptist Church is vastly different from its humble beginnings and had good reason to celebrate its 20th anniversary recently.
Carey celebrates 20 years On Pentecost Sunday 26 May 1996 Carey Baptist Church held its first service in the home of two of its founding members, Peter and Dianne Smith. This year marks the Church’s 20th anniversary – a cause for their recent celebrations. A church plant from Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, with support from Riverton Baptist Church, Carey was established under the leadership of Pastor Steve Izett. Steve had a vision of not only planting a church but starting a school, which would be a ministry of the church and act as a conduit into the community. From the beginning Steve had a desire to establish community on the campus with a school, community centre, and church all in the same location. Twenty years later, on the
original site in Harrisdale, Carey now has a school, child care operation, café, community centre and many other ministries, all with Carey Baptist Church at the centre. Also in this 20th year, Carey has planted a new campus at Forrestdale which will again grow to be a school, child care, and community centre with a church at the centre. Carey Baptist Church Senior Pastor David Kilpatrick said The Experiencing God course by Henry Blackaby was very formative in Carey’s development.
“Blackaby noted that we experience God as He calls us to become involved in what He is doing and His call leads to a crisis of belief requiring faith and action,” David said. “That has been very much the story of Carey, stepping out in faith and asking God to do what only He can do.” The founding statement, “Attempt great things for God, Expect great things from God” was taken from a sermon William Carey preached before he left England to go to India and it has become the motto. The church was also named after the pioneering Baptist missionary. “The story of Carey is not one of clever people or great plans. Carey is a story of what God can do through a community of people who step out in faith believing that God can do anything,” David said.
Today the church has a new vision: Carey 2020 with two components: ‘Realising our potential’ and ‘Positioning for impact’. Carey has only just built the first part of its community centre and commenced its new campus. Both require a lot of work to fully develop and the plan is that this will be done in the years to come. “We believe we are called to continue to grow and develop new campuses both in Australia and overseas,” David said. “There is much work to be done to develop the leadership and organisational capacities to enable us to do so.” “The key issue, however, is not what we can do, but what God is calling us to do and whether we will be courageous enough to follow Him. I certainly hope we will.”
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