Connecting Families With Jesus

 

Many churches are building bridges into their community and doing excellent and innovative ministries.

However, are the community crossing over those bridges?  Not really.

Written by Yvette Wynne, this book is designed to help you take people across those bridges and into God’s open arms! This can be done as a small group and excellent for helping your outreach ministry get onto the same page!

Purchase at the Baptist NSW & ACT Shop here. 

Courageous Conversations Workshops

This 2 hour seminar is designed to stimulate your ministry workers to have that faith conversation. In Aussie culture we don’t like to be preached at, fair enough. But this course doesn’t teach how to preach, it actually gets the community person to preach what they think! 

Why not ask Yvette ywynne@nswactbaptists.org.au to come and run a courageous conversations workshop at your church and help people move to a new level of conversation? Here is the workbook which shows what will be covered, baptistcfm.org.au/…/CF-Courageous-Conversations-Workbook-V2.pdf

Welcome Letter

This sample Playgroup Welcome Letter is courtesy of Caroline Smalley from Church in the Marketplace.

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Starting a Christian Playgroup

Written by Heather Karrasch from the Baptist Union of Victoria, this is a must read before you begin your Playtime ministry!
 
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Sample Registration Form

This sample Playgroup Registration Form is courtesy of Resource-3-PDF-Sample-Registration-Form (2)
 
 
 

 

Playgroup Roster Duties

This sample of Playgroup Roster Duties is courtesy of Caroline Smalley from Church in the Marketplace. roster_duties

Playtime Parent Tract

These great little tracts for Playtime parents are ready for you to print and give to parents.These brochures are available for free if you send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to PO Box 122 Epping NSW 1710. The text reads as below:

The little one that’s now joined your family has such potential to bring you both joy and pain. Your own childhood memories, good or bad, may still be quite fresh, and now you have been thrust into the responsibility of raising a child. Having a human wholly dependent on you for their life brings many challenges. Cuddles and smiles are fun, but broken sleep and endless crying can be a bitter reality.
It can also be a lonely season in your life in which many people you know are at work, and you only have your child to talk to. It’s not unusual to feel daunted, frustrated, or depressed.  As your baby gets a little older you realise the routine (or lack of it) has well and truly set in. Just when you finish all those tasks that come with parenting and keeping the household in order, it’s time to start again. The monotony can be draining, but it’s all so worthwhile when your child crawls into your lap, wraps their little arms around your neck, whispering, “I love you”.
Having a child can cause you to start thinking about the big questions in life.
– Why am I here?
– What am I doing? Is this my purpose?
– Am I doing the right thing with my child?
– Can I hang in there?
You may not be able to answer these questions, but there is someone who can. It may be of comfort to know that someone loves your child more than you do. Even in the womb, God knew all about your child, their hopes and fears, joys and triumphs just as God knows you.  So why don’t you take the opportunity to ‘taste and see that God is good’? A good place to start is by talking with God, who, like us, loves to be appreciated. Thank him for the gift of your own precious miracle; your child.  But God is also generous. You can ask him for the love and wisdom you’ll need. He loves to give good gifts to his children.
Want to explore this further? Check out a local church, where people just like you have been asking the same questions and would love to help you in your journey with God.  Jesus said, “I came to give life-life in all its fullness.” You can find this in the Bible in John 10:10.