Our Stories

On the 13^th & 14^th April this year, over thirty people from various multicultural churches in the BUV, gathered together for the Ignite Emerging Leaders Retreat, held at Camp Wilkin.

Light Community Baptist Church recently received a BUV Community Engagement grant to help boost their presence in the neighbourhood.

by Rose  Young

…what I can understand is Rith’s immeasurable, enduring, and fierce love for her children… and how it must have broken her heart when she was unable to give them every chance to succeed.

Our BUV recently held our Equip Emerging Leaders & Mentors workshop training online. Using the Zoom platform on a variety of devices (computers, tablets, phones, etc.) means our ELMT participants were able to meet together online to reflect and discuss the topic of God-Centred Leadership with Kimberly Smith and Andrew Woff providing input and guiding the discussion.

The new book, So Great a Cloud of Witnesses, tells of this wonderful story of partnership and service together as a Baptist Union and a local church. The Ashburton Baptist Church is a community that knows its story well so it values participation, it supports the mission beyond its local community and it seeks to build on the legacy that it has been given.

Our Kachin brothers and sisters are facing hardship in Kachin land as the armed clashes intensify. Let’s join with our Kachin Baptist churches here in praying for those facing persecution in their homeland.

In the middle of January his year, as part of a discussion about how to engage the musical talents and gifts of church members in mission, the Melbourne Bangjoo Church Leaders had the idea of conducting a praise school.

Anglo-Australian Christians often assume that migrant Christians need to learn from them how to do church in Australia. However after experiencing the overwhelming companionship and support of the Karen community, I believe that Anglo-Australian Christians have a lot to learn from migrant and refugee Christians about how to be church.

Five years since the Rana Plaza tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 garment workers, an industry-leading research report launched today reveals the fashion industry may finally be making headway in protecting workers.

Christian Community Church Morwell, earlier this month celebrated the exciting opening of their new St Peter’s Cafe.