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With thanks to Dr Byron Smith and Common Grace for offering this prayer for use or adaptation in your devotions and church worship.

Brunswick Baptist Church found a novel way to express solidarity and gratitude to the firefighters working to protect life and land across Australia.

It was a balmy summers evening at the gathering of the CAROLS IN THE PARK community event on December 14th 2019. The crowd slowly built up and by the end of the night was estimated to be about 6000 people. This was an amazing number when you consider that this represents about one third of the number of residents who live in North Balwyn!

On Sunday the 8^th December 2019, with the support of the Baptist Union of Victoria, Point Cook Community Baptist Church held ‘Carols by Sunlight’ a 100% free Christmas outreach event for our local community.

On Christmas Eve 2019 the Koondrook-Barham Baptist Church joined with the local Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Churches to present Carols by Candlelight at Riverside Park, Barham. On the night the Lions Club had a community festival which we joined and when the festival ended we began the carol singing.

The Carols @ Convention community event for 2019 was a great success which saw 550 people from the local community coming together to celebrate the Christmas season.

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We have had a very busy end to November, kicking off with a Christmas luncheon with our pastors who are Experienced in Ministry. It was a wonderful time of fellowship and reunion for everyone.

We also held two big events – SEND and IGNITE Discipling Youth Symposium.

When Aini first visited Camberwell Baptist Church (CBC), her only goal was to learn English. “I went to church on a Thursday night thinking that there was going to be an English class but there wasn’t. Instead it was a Simple English Bible study class. I listened to worship songs for the first time and even though I didn’t understand the lyrics, I felt touched,” shares Aini at the recent CBC Baptism Service.

Changes in a church community might be small and quiet, but that’s often how it is with Kingdom activity – a seed is sown, you don’t see it growing, then something sprouts. “We sense the Spirit moving and we are convinced in the role of prayer when it comes to sowing seeds for the Kingdom,” says Jeremy Van Langenberg, Pastor of Bacchus Marsh Baptist Church.