Entries by Jodie McNeill

Do you have donkeys?

During our ministry trip to Tanzania, Mandy, Barbara and I had many opportunities to speak with locals about the differences between their life in East Africa and ours in Australia. As I shared with a local Christian, he asked me whether we had donkeys. When I told him that we only really have donkeys as […]

Renewal in Rwanda

Next week’s Gafcon Conference in Kigali, Rwanda is shaping up to be a momentous occasion in the history of global Anglicanism, as we come together to prayerfully chart a renewed course for the church. The five-day conference will include around 1300 people from over 50 nations, as we come together to prayerfully depend on the […]

Open Day

The most controversial thing about Easter is not that Jesus died… but that he came back to life. That’s why our Easter campaign this year is called ‘Open Day,’ as we highlight Jesus’ open grave… for he is risen, hallelujah! Many people are not open to the resurrection of Jesus because it seems so unusual—after […]

1 Corinthians: A Loving Church – 18: Compelled to Preach – 1 Corinthians 9:15-23 – Jodie McNeill – 26 March 2023

A free country Paul is _________ to preach the Good News Corinth was really _______ _____ met Paul face-to-face These verses come with wonderful ______ Paul gave up ______ so he could preach Christ Paul’s message was _________, not judgement Preaching Christ is Paul’s greatest _______ Christians are to know and ____ the gospel We […]

Moore is coming!

We are thrilled to welcome a team of fourteen students and two chaplains from Moore Theological College from this Sunday 26th March to Sunday 2nd April. The ‘mission week’ is an integral part of the training of all the students as they prepare to be ministers in churches and other contexts locally and across the […]

The Big Six

At our AGM this week I shared six, draft strategies to help our church pray to our sovereign Lord, equip people for ministry, and proclaim Christ faithfully, so that each person in our village, valley and region might know how to follow Jesus and why it matters. Firstly, we want to increase our prayerfulness by […]

Divine Hospitality

In her book, ‘The gospel comes with a house key,’ Rosaria Butterfield shares how she became a Christian through the hospitality of an older Christian couple who opened their home, shared their lives, and showed her Jesus.  She was unchurched and hostile to Christians, but God used that hospitality to lead her to Christ. Hospitality […]