Paul Crothers commenced
as our Youth Pastor,
in January 2005, and server the youth at CHBC until January 2008, when
he felt called to somehow minister to ordinary Aussie folk.
Prior
to joining us Paul was a youth pastor at another Baptist church for
5 years.
He was passionate about helping young
people discover and grow in their relationship with God.
Paul is married to Kate.
February 2005
Lyn Williams Commenced as for Music
and Worship Pastor in February 2005 .
Lyn has been involved in the music & worship team at
CHBC for 10 years. She has also worked as a piano tutor, teaching privately
and in schools.
Lyn is married to Reece and they have three children
(pictured L-R)
Allegra,
Alyx and Caleb.
Purchased Corner Block
2-4 Bemboka Road for $650,000
April / May 2005
A wonderful month of prayer, praise and seeking
God's will, including a great Art Exhibition, held .... in
July 2005
Renee Barnden started as Administrative Assistant
- Ignite Youth, aiming to be working with both Paul in the
area of Youth and Lyn in the area of youth music and worship.
November 2005
A Large group of Burmese people started to worship with us and to
call CHBC their home.
Many had
spent up to 20 years in a Karen
Refugee Camp on the Thailand/Myammar border, and had never worshipped
in a church building before.
We welcome them, and there are plans to soon commence
a regular Burmese worship service.
2006
January 2006
CHBC web Site revamped to provide:
Database driven printable calendar and event
listings for each group.
Automatic "Verse of the Day" and "Daily Devotion"
feeds
Automatic feeds of useful local information relating
to weather, freeways etc
Welcomed the Bible Baptist
Church in Davao City Mindanao, the Philippines as the
first (known) regular international online listeners to our weekly messages
or sermons,
as found on our audio
resources page.
February 2006
In conjunction with the Bible
Baptist Church in Davao City Mindanao, the Philippines,
CHBC commenced broadcasting a 20 minute message to an audience
of approximately
1 million people in the Philippines,
via telephone and their local radio once a month.
Praise God for the opportunities he provides
and pray that he uses this to further His kingdom.
(The cost of renting radio time resulted
in this ceasing in the latter part of 2006)
Kathy Thompson was appointed
to the position of Administrative Assistant to Julie
McLean in the area of children’s
ministry, and served there until November 2007.
Kathy wa is committed to
seeing children develop their spirituality and learn of Christ's love.
This year we had an excellent reason to
give thanks to God, for we are celebrating our twentieth anniversary.
During this month we reflected upon God’s faithfulness
during those twenty years.
A new Art Exhibition as part of the Maroondah Council community Winter
ArtsFest
July 2006
Lauren Parker started as Administrative
Assistant - Ignite Youth, aiming to be working with both Paul in the area
of Youth and Lyn in the area of youth music and worship.
Photo not
yet available
What a Celebration!
As a way of expressing our gratitude for the many ways we have shared
in God’s goodness and abundance we took up a special offering on
the day of our church anniversary – Sunday July 16th.
Our aim was to express our thanks to God by releasing $50,000 to cross
cultural mission. This was a great challenge but through God we made it
and actually raised over $60,000.
