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This year at National Conference, we gave to prepare 18 church planters to launch and reach thousands more people with t...
25/05/2026

This year at National Conference, we gave to prepare 18 church planters to launch and reach thousands more people with the gospel.

We raised nearly $40,000. Praise God!

If you haven’t given yet, it’s not too late. We are aiming to raise $50,000, because that's the cost of Bootcamp (intensive training) and Refresh (marriage enrichment) for the year.

👉 Give $50 now: www.reachaustralia.com.au/give-new-churches

“I’ve only been a pastor for 7 years. I don’t know your suffering and I’d never presume to understand it.All I know is t...
20/05/2026

“I’ve only been a pastor for 7 years. I don’t know your suffering and I’d never presume to understand it.

All I know is that in this room, that there are many broken hearts, if not at our own sufferings, then at the sufferings of others.

It’s so easy, isn’t it, to feel all alone, as if no one can understand our pain?

And as leaders of God’s people, everyone tells us to be vulnerable but too many of us have paid the price of being too vulnerable.

So we keep our sufferings to ourselves and continue to think: no one understands our pain.

I don’t want to promise that I can understand it. I don’t even want to promise that any of our flock can understand it.

But what I and no one else can understand, Jesus can. He knows the pain of being forsaken by his own family. He knows the loneliness of being betrayed and abandoned by everyone he loves.

He knows what it’s like to weep over a city that is lost. He knows the injustice of being gossiped about, slandered and defamed.

And he knows the deep suffering that comes with being faithful to his Father’s will all the way to death on a cross.

Jesus’ life was a ministry of daily dying to self but it’s through his death, that he defeated death and won for us our salvation.

Please don’t think that your suffering is ever wasted. If God did not waste the death of his Son, then before the throne of the Lamb, there are no wasted tears.

'Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and strength be to our God, forever and ever. Amen.'” - Adam Ch’ng (Senior Pastor of Cross & Crown: Melbourne)

“In my drier moments and darker seasons, I don’t actually think people can change.I hear about someone’s sin and I think...
19/05/2026

“In my drier moments and darker seasons, I don’t actually think people can change.

I hear about someone’s sin and I think, “Of course, what do you expect? That’s just what they’re like. They’ll always be like that.”

Or the mission heat in our church is sub-zero and no one’s inviting their friends to Hope Explored and I think, “What’s the point? Let’s just cancel it.”

Or you try to bring spiritual change to your church but your elders just fight you every step of the way and you think, “I’ll just leave, there’s no hope for this place.”

And all my prayers are directed to a God who can but probably won’t. He won’t save, he won’t change, he won’t transform.

Why do I think like that? I think partially I’m trying to protect my heart from disappointment. But in reality, I have a limited view of the cross that forgives but does not free.

I need to repent of that worldly pessimism. For guilty, helpless, lost were we, blameless Lamb of God was he.

He set us free! Hallelujah, what a Saviour!” - Adam Ch’ng (Senior Pastor of Cross & Crown: Melbourne)

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Thankful to God for day two of National Conference. Pray that this week will lead to transformed hearts and minds in us and in our churches.

Cross & Crown: Melbourne

Praise God for the first day of National Conference. It’s been the start of an enormously important week gathering leade...
18/05/2026

Praise God for the first day of National Conference. It’s been the start of an enormously important week gathering leaders from 300+ churches across Australia. Pray for gospel fruit across Australia as we meet to sit under God's word, learn together and spur each other on.

“The hope of this network, when it started, was that we could do more to reach the country together than we could by ourselves.

There is an understanding of people in this room that this is not a room of people that is dedicated to building some sort of organisation, but people who are absolutely committed, no matter the cost, to see people move from death to life.

We’re not a bunch of profesionals coming to professional development in order to do a job better. We want to reach Australia. We are brothers in sisters in Christ who have come here to spur one another on.

God, by his spirit, through his word - he’s working through us to call people back to himself.” - Derek Hanna (Director of Church Planting)

“Sundays are a moment where Jesus is actually with us, present among us as his people through the gospel being proclaime...
14/05/2026

“Sundays are a moment where Jesus is actually with us, present among us as his people through the gospel being proclaimed and taught and sung and prayed.

That’s weighty and significant. It’s God’s chosen way to display his wisdom in saving people through Jesus. It’s the moment where people who don’t know Jesus come in and say, ‘Wow, God is really among you.’

So Sundays really matter. It’s not just a 10am service at a bowls club that smells like old beer on the carpet. It’s not just a 4:30 service with carpet on the roof to dampen the sound. This is actually Christ dwelling in our midst and enacting his mission in the world.” - Paul Young (planter of Providence Bayswater, Perth)

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Paul is on The One Thing Podccast to think about whether Sunday gathering debriefs are productive, or just recycling obvious feedback.

He dives into how different churches approach debriefs, what often goes from when they drift into planning or post-morterms, and how teams can use that time more effectively to focus on big-picture strategy, prayer and gospel priorities.

🎧 Listen to episode 450 What are your Sunday gathering debriefs actually achieving? on your favourite podcast app.

🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CjeZCLWi5oJgM68KafzAJ?si=60e1290e612d458c

A new song recording live from last year’s National Conference has just been released 🎉Saving Grace was written by VILLE...
13/05/2026

A new song recording live from last year’s National Conference has just been released 🎉

Saving Grace was written by VILLE Worship, a ministry of Kellyville Anglican Church, Sydney.

Stream it on Spotify or in your favourite music app.

P.S. Six days til National Conference 2026 😁

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About VILLE Worship:

“This songwriting ministry started two years ago. The idea was to start writing music to equip our church and the greater church with biblically faithful songs that are accessible.

They’ve been written intentionally so they can be scaled from a large full band right down to just an acoustic guitar and singing.

A lot of our music team members are teachers, so we try to record and write in school holidays. We look to use the quieter periods in church life - Jan, June and July - for a lot of the heavy work like recording and video production.

We’ve enjoyed being able to write music and use the gifts God’s given us for his kingdom and glory.” - James Muggeridge (Assistant Pastor overseeing creative and digital ministry areas)

🎵 VILLE Worship

💻 Check out more original music from churches in our network: reachaustralia.com.au/music

We’ve got some bittersweet news to share - after much prayer and consideration, Scott Sanders will be stepping down as E...
12/05/2026

We’ve got some bittersweet news to share - after much prayer and consideration, Scott Sanders will be stepping down as Executive Director of Reach Australia later this year, to take up a new role in the United States as Director of Global Outreach at McLean Bible Church.

Scott has served our network for over 16 years, beginning with Geneva Push and continuing through the formation and growth of Reach Australia. We thank God for his faithful, godly leadership over that time. Under God, during his leadership, we’ve seen over 170 churches planted, hundreds of leaders developed, and a growing network of churches committed to seeing Australia won for Christ. We are deeply grateful to God for the way Scott has served the Lord and us all.

We have always been a network of churches, working together to see thousands of healthy, evangelistic, multiplying churches across Australia for God's glory. That mission continues unchanged.

Following a thorough process of discernment, prayer, due diligence, and interviews, the Board has appointed Derek Hanna as the next Executive Director of Reach Australia. Derek is already well known to many across the network through his work with Geneva Push and Reach Australia over the past 10 years, and we are thankful to God for his leadership, conviction, and commitment to the same mission we share.

Scott is sticking around with us through October later this year, giving us time for a thoughtful and orderly handover, and for the network to move forward with clarity and confidence into the next season.

We wanted to share this with you ahead of the National Conference and ask you'd join us in prayer & thankfulness. We’re confident that God will continue to grow his work through our humble efforts as we keep labouring together for the sake of his name.

Five people had signed up to their evangelism course. But the next time they ran it, 23 people came.Recently, The Point ...
07/05/2026

Five people had signed up to their evangelism course. But the next time they ran it, 23 people came.

Recently, The Point Community Church shared how a series of deliberate changes helped more people move from community connection into conversations about Jesus.

Their church had been growing steadily, but not many adults were becoming Christians. When they benchmarked themselves against other churches, they realised there was a significant gap in how many non-Christians were moving through evangelistic courses.

So they asked hard questions and changed the way they invited people. They thought more carefully about their pathway from outreach into discipleship.

And along the way, the free Mission Ebook by Dave Jensen became a practical guide for their team.

“Having a written guide is especially helpful when you're making changes. And we're so thankful to hear how other churches have done it and be able to learn from them.”

Registrations grew from 5 to 37. Around seven people came to faith in Jesus, with others still exploring.

Stories like this grow out of ordinary people sharing the load together. Churches learning from each other, pastors passing on wisdom, and generous supporters helping make resources like the Mission Ebook freely available to churches across Australia.

We’re thankful we can make resources like this freely available to thousands of churches through the generosity of people who fund Reach Australia’s resource library. All so that more people might come to know Jesus.

👉 Give $20 tax-deductibly today. Help develop more resources for Australian churches: www.reachaustralia.com.au/partner

P.S. Here's the free Mission ebook: www.reachaustralia.com.au/mission-ebook

“At best, in most suburbs, around 95% of people don’t know Jesus. So the first question can’t simply be, ‘How do we fill...
30/04/2026

“At best, in most suburbs, around 95% of people don’t know Jesus. So the first question can’t simply be, ‘How do we fill positions in our church?’ The first question has to be, ‘How do we reach the lost?’ because they’re not the same question.

And as we wrestle with that, one of the things we see, again and again, is that new churches reach new people.

This isn’t just a conversation for big churches. We’re seeing churches of 120 or 150 people deliberately put church planting on the table, send people, and see new churches reach new people.

So maybe the real question isn’t, ‘Are we big enough?’ but, ‘Are we willing to prioritise reaching the lost?’” - Derek Hanna (Director of Church Planting)

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