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the community interest in planting a church. I was expecting around a hundred people to turn out with at least fifty people signing up! In actuality, we had around twenty people turn up, four of which were our conference leaders. Out of the mission rally we had five people sign up. We then began meeting every week in my house to pray and seek God's guidance. Eventually we decided to start house church twice a month. After some months the group outgrew our living room so we decided we needed to find another venue. I pretty much door-knocked every school, church and hall in the Camden Valley area. Every single place had said no. Just when I thought the situation was hopeless, the last place on my list of places—an old primary school down the road from my house in Elderslie—
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01. CAMDEN VALLEY CHURCH PLANT FLOURISHES BY PR ANDERS SVENSSON Some of you may have heard news in the last couples of years of a church
plant beginning down in the South West of Sydney in the area of Camden/Narellan. In this article I wanted to share some of the ways God has been blessing the mission field down in the Camden Valley region and how faithful God is in His equipping, calling and guidance. We began in 2018 by running a mission rally in the centre of Narellan. The object of this rally was to gauge
There was, however, one catch. He was very adamant that we were only allowed to use the school hall and none of the classrooms were to be used. This was a big problem for us because we decided from the beginning that we wanted to be a church that had a focus on families and kids ministry. If we didn’t have any facilities for the kids ministry then our plans would not work. We decided to commit this as a church to prayer for the next few hours. Straight after our time of prayer the principle called me and said, “it’s your lucky day. The librarian has just agreed to give you the whole library for your kids club”. What a blessing that news had been for us as a church. Now we could have
