Tag: testimony
From Nurse to Church Planter
This is Tola, he works as a nurse in Ethiopia and was part of our main city campus. In 2018
My Support Journey
My involvement with the CityLife missions partners Ken & Rayma Tracy began in 2001. I had just started attending CityLife and was in a Life Group. A request came through to the Life Group saying that the Tracy’s needed a support coordinator. I put my hand up and this story began.
My Life Group leader said, ‘Please make sure you communicate with them’. They were in a very remote region so I began communicating with them over the internet. Ken (now deceased) was rapt to hear from me, and we began talking on a regular, almost daily basis. He introduced me to Rayma his wife, and their two school aged daughters.
Small Projects Transforming Lives
CityLife World Impact has 16 field partners in 10 nations across the globe, ministering holistically to the communities surrounding the mission field. Individuals who have stepped out to help break the cycle of poverty in disadvantaged communities, helping to give hope and purpose with the message of God’s love.
Many of us can quickly bring to mind and image of someone experiencing hardship or challenges in life. The challenge is often not knowing who may need help, it is taking action to do something about it. Whether we have seen this need in a picture or in person, the reality is that we can each do something, and become a part of the solution; placing our piece of the jigsaw.
God Phone Hack
It was Wednesday 25th October 2017 and we are about 11 days from the launch of the new International service in partnership with Abbalove Church and CityLife Church. It was around 6:15pm, Jo was out, Beth and I were at home.
Jo had been gone for a while and I was getting a bit concerned where she was so I thought I would just send her a txt message to see how she was. What was to happen next was the most amazing thing and something that has really pointed us to the fact that God has an amazing plan and He invites us all to be a part of that with Him.
Yuliana’s Story
All over the world, CityLife’s missions partners share the love of God both through word and action. In 2009, Rayma Tracy our partner in Timor encountered a young girl name Yuliana who was in a dire situation where a facial tumour had grown to the point that it was threatening her life. The remoteness of this region meant that she had no access to the medical help that she so desperately needed. Thanks to the efforts of Rayma, members of CityLife Church and the medical team at Dandenong Hospital, Yuliana was able to receive the urgent medical attention she needed and today, she lives a healthy normal life. What an amazing testimony of what we can accomplish when we each play the part that God has positioned us for.
Here’s Yuliana’s full story told by Rayma…
Alcohol and Rope
Brett and Justine Wiltshire are National Directors of Australian Aboriginal Outreach Ministries (AAOM), national church planting movement that reaches out to Aboriginal communities in the outback as well as urban areas. They travel all across Australia, setting vision, encouraging pastors, ministering at their churches, speaking into their lives and supporting the pastors in any way they can. On a visit to CityLife Church, Brett shared some remarkable stories of the redemptive power of God. One can be found here, and here’s another one:
A Child Raised from the Dead
– by Harris
Ministering in Cambodia is like “living in the time of the Book of Acts”…
CityLife Church’s missions partners, New Life Fellowship in Phnom Penh has a vision to be a positive influence in every sector of Cambodian society; to be a model and a resource centre for planting churches in all 24 provinces of Cambodia and to send Cambodians as missionaries to other countries. In addition, they are passionate about ministering to the poor through the New Life Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organisation.
Here’s a story from their ministry…
Tree of Shame Replaced by a Church
– by Harris
Brett and Justine Wiltshire are the national directors of Australian Aboriginal Outreach Ministries (AAOM). In 2000, they moved with their children to Halls Creek in the Western Australian Kimberly region to pastor a local church. After planting an additional six churches, an indigenous couple took over as local pastors, releasing Brett and Justine to be the AAOM coordinators for 14 churches, some of them in the most remote and isolated communities in Australia.
Then, in September 2014 they became the national directors for AAOM. They are still based in Halls Creek but have moved out of their home and now live in a bus which serves as the mobile home, office and teaching base. As national directors they travel all across Australia setting vision, encouraging pastors, ministering at the churches, speaking into the pastor’s lives and supporting them in any way they can.
There are nearly 400 aboriginal communities in Australia, some of which are on the outskirts of the hottest and most inhospitable deserts and hundreds of kilometers from shops, schools and services. AAOM is a national church planting movement that reaches out to Aboriginal communities in the outback as well as urban areas. AAOM’s motto is ‘working in unity, transforming communities’.
On a visit to CityLife Church, Brett shared some remarkable stories of how the redemptive power of God is working through their ministry into the lives of Aboriginal people. This is one of them…
Precious Women
– by Harris
“… I know that God has told me to do this, so I stepped out and I’m doing it.”
CityLife Church‘s missions partners, New Life Fellowship in Phnom Penh is one of the largest churches in Cambodia.
Their vision is for the church to have a positive influence in every sector of Cambodian society; to be a model and a resource centre for planting churches in all 24 provinces of Cambodia and to send Cambodians as missionaries to other countries.
In addition, they are passionate about ministering to the poor and disadvantaged. Through the New Life Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organisation also under their leadership, they engage in relief and development work with a particular emphasis on the education sector. You can find out more on their Facebook page CambodiaOutreach.
Here’s a remarkable story of the impact that NLF is having in Cambodia…
My Experience in Cambodia
As an introverted, highly organised and unadventurous person, stepping out of my comfort zone without knowing exactly how things would