This Church is currently leading a project at Kinglake called Global Care.

GC Project at Main St Kinglake   ___________________________     Pastor Craig meeting one of the workers

Fence mending    __________________________________________________ ___  Aborists

 

     Feeding the community        ;  _________________________________   Assistance in Planning

 

Global Care has been on the ground since about 2 weeks after the bushfires and will stay indefinitely. We have between 20 and 40 fulltime volunteers at any given day working for free at this relief operation. These people come from our churches all over Australia. They are involved in assisting the community in the following ways.

1. Food provision – cooking hot meals on site for residents and emergency workers.

2. Counselling – both chaplaincy and professionally trained people.

3. Aborists -  tree work felling dangerous trees and cutting up fallen trees.

4. Wood splitting for fire wood

5. Delivery of fire wood

6. Professional services to the council/Dept human services/  such as civil engineering consultancy for establishing a new temporary township, data management services for council re water tank cleaning and refilling.

7. Providing staff (free labour) for local businesses to get back up and running, such as café’s; bakery etc

8. Giving cars away

9. Assisting with accommodation needs for locals

10. Youth work

      - trips to youth events, skate parks, surf coast etc

      - school concerts

11. Primary schools – concerts and clean ups, teaching music

12. Fence building

13. Liaison between all agencies – council, Dept human services, police, bushfire recovery taskforce and royal commission all have spoken publically about how they have relied upon and derived benefit from Global Care and their interagency liaison work.

 

Pastor Craig Anderson has been the police chaplain for 4 years serving the needs of police members as well as CFA members and Ambos.

 

Locally Pastor Craig visits all three police stations in Whittlesea every week and provides chaplaincy services to Police members.

 

 

Our church, through the program of Kids Hope, (http://www.worldvision.com.a u/ourwork/Solutions/KidsHopeAus.aspx)

is assisting at risk primary aged children in the South Morang Primary School.

(Call Principal Julie Jones for a reference)

We have six mentors from the church community who spend one hour with one child one time a week. Further to this two of our pastors are working in paid positions one day a week to mentor at risk children who need extra care to survive dysfunctional home lives and other difficulties.

 

 

One child - one hour a week

We have a Youth Outreach Ministry that runs an activity night every Friday night at the church building. Between 50 -80 high school age youth attend.

 

Our Youth Director Pastor AJ Masefau is trained in youth counselling and is a paid school chaplain in two High schools one being Parade College Bundoora.

 

           

Pastor AJ & Bronnie Masefau     ____________________________ Youth at a concert on a Friday night

 

 

We are engaging youth in these areas

 

 

Every Tuesday young mums from the Mill Park region find a fun and effective learning environment for them selves and their bubs at Plenty Valley Church.

About 15-20 families are using the service at present.

 

    

 

 

Many church members in their own right serve the community. One who stands out is Alex Fabiani who speaks at high schools to help young people avoid the pitfalls of drug abuse.