After four years of life and ministry in Narrabeen, it was announced at church a couple of weeks ago that we will be finishing up in August and moving to… Melbourne!
We love our church family at St Faith’s Narrabeen and have loved sharing Jesus with our local community. There are still so many people on the Northern Beaches and all over Sydney who desperately need to turn to Jesus and find life. But we are convicted of the need for people to meet Jesus outside of Sydney too.
Saying goodbye to St Faiths is fast approaching and it’s sad to be leaving. I love my job, the location, my colleagues and most of all the people we serve. In 1 Thessalonians 2:8 Paul speaks about how he has not only shared the gospel but his life with a people that have become dear to him. It’s been such a privilege to share our lives with many precious brothers and sisters at church and other friends in the local community.
As well as leaving Soulies Youth Community, I’m also sad about moving out of frontline youth ministry. I have been freed up from normal work for over 10 years to invest full-time in reaching teenagers. However, while I won’t be a youth minister, my passion for reaching the next generation with the message of Christ remains the same.
What will we be doing in Melbourne?
I am joining the team of Pastors at City on a Hill, a church based in the CBD of Melbourne.
In the short term, I am looking forward to being part of the team and using our gifts in whatever way we can to serve God’s people and make Jesus known in Melbourne.
God willing, in the medium term, I will lead a City on a Hill church plant. So I hope to become part of the City on a Hill family, learn from the team, grow in my leadership and be sent out to continue knowing Jesus and making Jesus known.
Read more in this Blog Interview on the City on a Hill website.
Please pray for our family in the transition moving from Sydney to Melbourne. Pray that we would finish well at St Faith’s and pray in particular that God would continue to provide solid leadership for the youth community after we leave.
This is such exciting news brother! I’m both shocked and not surprised at all. Super excited to see the Lord using you for great things in different cities, and super pumped for the possibility of a city on a hill plant. Praying for you!
hey athena, thanks for taking time to leave a comment and share in excitement! appreciate your prayers. hope things are going well for you and crew in balmain. keep trusting Jesus, dave.
Woohoo!!! Such exciting news Brother! So excited to hear you are joining City on a Hill!
God is so good and I have full faith that he is with you and will go before you, always!
May God continue to equip and prepare your family for the adventure ahead!
So good to continually remember that we are only temporarily here on earth, and that heaven is our real home!
Ethan and I will both be praying faithfully for your family and this super exciting time ahead!!!
thanks isabel, appreciate your encouragement and thankful for you and ethan praying. heaven is our real home? great reminder. thanks. hope that anchor church is going well. keep trusting Jesus, dave.
Praise God! How exciting that he is leading you to a new family at city on a hill church and also to the many who are yet to know the love of Jesus! Praying that you as a family can continue to reply on Gods strength as you transition into a new season of life! God has worked through you in many ways and I am just one person that was impacted by Jesus through you particularly at schoolers 2010. May we both keep trusting Jesus!
*Schoolies :)
hey bethany, really really appreciate you taking time to encourage us and pray for us. stoked that schoolies was an important time for you. amen to both of us continuing to trust in Jesus!
and i hope anchor church is going well!
Hayley just moved back from Melbourne and knows the city on the Hill church in the CBD -great church she says …
Thanks for all your encouragement – especially with teaching Scripture with Greg at Narrabeen High – the young people are Blessed to have you join their team.
Nathan also found you an enthusiastic ,encouraging leader with Soulies etc
Gods Blessings
thanks for leaving a comment sandy.
glad that hayley is familiar with city on a hill!
i have loved working with greg and nathan on various teams.
thanks for the encouragement!
keep trusting Jesus,
dave