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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.
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(Generating Outreach Support by Planting churches, Evangelism and Literacy training) is a GROW sub-Committee that raises support for indigenous evangelists who are planting churches in Central/Western India. GOSPEL was set up primarily for congregations and individuals to partner with the emerging and growing church amongst these unreached tribal people. God is opening a door for the Gospel in a land where a large numbers of image bearers live in physical and spiritual poverty.
G.O.S.P.E.L. officially began in mid 2002 with 10 evangelists. Now there are some 75 evangelists hard at work spreading the good news. Some 10,000 people have come to faith in Christ. As well as church planting, we are also involved in children's literacy programmes.
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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.
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World Transform is CRCA's official denominational ministry "showing mercy – in Christ's name". We mainly work in deed ministries in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. International Community Development is our main focus. We are also involved in emergency relief programs from time to time.
Our living God is deeply concerned for humanity in this sin scarred world. 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 this subcommittee in 1965. World Transform seeks 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.
World Transform works in close relationship with G.O.S.P.E.L. so that "Word" and "Deed" ministries will be closely aligned.
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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.
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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:
- 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
- suggest relevant resources (e.g. material from other church contexts, stories and examples of best practise in the CRCA)
- 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