Annual Church Camp 2008 – The Mission-Minded Church (2 May 2008 – 4 May 2008)
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This year's camp took place on one of the best camp site in Auckland
– Carey Park, which is
situated in the Waitakere Waitakere Ranges of Auckland. The camp theme is
"The Mission-Minded Church" with the motto "Beyond Boundaries".
Our speaker was Ps. David Chen, a very annointed pastor with the
special gift of evangelism, especially in Africa. In the camp, he shared
with us his experience in missions, as well as how to avail ourselves to
the calling of the Lord, and how to trust in God in the impossible. He
also shared with us how God was faithful in taking care of his needs and
his family as he continued to trust and follow the Lord.
Annual Church Camp 2007 – The Seed Church (29 June 2007 – 1 July 2007)
The 2007 church camp took place at the Hunua Falls camp-site. The theme of
the camp was The Seed Church with the motto "Release! Grow! Reach!".
The topic of the camp was on how to grow individually as well as corporately
in church under one head - Jesus Christ.
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Church Anniversary 2007 (27 May 2007)
On the Sunday immediately following the Healing Night, we had a special
service to celebrate our 10th Church Anniversary! On that day, we had
special performances, food, and events, not to mention that Ps Brendan,
the speaker for our Healing Night, also preached in this service.
Healing Night (25 May 2007 – 26 May 2007)
Probably the biggest & most special event of the year,
the Healing Night is a grand event held in
Pioneer Women's Hall to reach out to the sick and the unsaved
through God's healing power! Ps Brendan, a gifted pastor from
Hope Adelade came to Auckland to minister this special healing
service, along with a talk on Science (mainly in astronomy) vs
Christianity, and showed how the Universe can point to the
existence of a God.
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Easter Service 2007! (8 April 2007)
We had a special Easter Service this year, with very different people
leading the service since most of the original leaders are away this
Easter. This was definitely a unique service as we see lots of young
Christians serving in the church. What a great family of God!
Web Site Hosting Has Moved! (6 March 2006 )
Our church web site (the one you are reading now) had been moved to a
new web hosting company (Lunar Pages)
this day for bigger space and cheaper price. If there are any problems
that any of you notived, please inform the
Oceania Convention 2007 (6th – 9th April 2007)
Every year, we have a special convention in Australia where all the Hope
churches in the Oceania region will come and worship and have fellowship
together in a form of a massive church camp.
This year, our convention was titled A Prophetic Church, The Message
and was held in Brisbane, Australia. It was a massive
event with thousands of people from all over Australia and
New Zealand coming to have fun together and to learn the Word of God.
Church Book Store Discount Sales! (December 2006 – February 2007)
From December 2006 until the end of February 2007, the church book store
was having a massive sales! They are offering 50% discount on
everything in the book store, including bibles!
Valentine Day Service (11th February 2007)
On this Sunday, we ahd a special Sunday Service specially tailored
for the Valentine's Day. Our pastor gave a sermon on what real love
is all about and how our Lord Jesus want us to love one another.
Water Baptism (10th February 2007)
On the Saturday (10/2/07), we had Water Baptism for 4 people on
a beach. It was cool and fun, and, of course, we celebrated with the
people who were water baptised.
Chrismas for Kids (20th November 2006)
On the end of this year, we held a special event for the less privileged
kids in Auckland. In the past years, we had Santa Gift Factory
events for under-privileged kids from different schools in Auckland,
but this year we called it Chrismas for Kids, and we targetted
specifically for only one such school – the Bairds Mainfreight
Primary School. The event was fantastic, and very successful. The
school staff (teachers and principal alike) and kids were all very
grateful, and had written many cards to thank us. Thank God!
Multi-cultural International Sunday Service
(12th November 2006)
This is another special Sunday Service. This time, it is organized by
the Young Adult Care-Group. Everyone wore special costume to represent
a country or culture they are from (or at least where they are supposed
to be from). There were special performances and lots of delicious
international food at lunch time.
Family Day Sunday Service (29th October 2006)
This is a special Sunday Service, themed The Family Day of Joy!
On this day, we had special performances and delicious food, all
organized by the Family Care-Group.
Month of Divine Intervention (September)
In this entire month, our entire church focus on divine intervention from Him,
in order that our faith can increase and our trust in him can be more solid.
We had indeed seen a lot of members experiencing God, and their testimonies
and thanks being recorded down and stored in a jar of thanksgiving (the jar
filled with stars).
Water Baptism (2nd September 2006)
We had water baptism on 2nd September (Saturday) at 11am at
Waterhole Swimming Pool.
The Great Cookout (1st September 2006)
CCM organized an annual cooking competition on this evening. We had
lots of expert cooks cooking lots of marvellous dishes. We also had
great fun having fellowship and food!
Mid-Winter Chrismas Dinner (14th July 2006)
To celebrate the Mid-winter Chrismas, we had a special dinner party held at the
Railway Campus. Thank God that we got lots of new visitors among us in this
event. We prayed that God will continue to touch these people so that they
will come to know Christ and His wonderful salvation.
Express Evangelism (12-15th July 2006)
Peter Truong, the gifted and blessed evangelist from Brisbane, came to
our church to train us on Express Evangelism, as well as blessing us
with prophetic nights by prophesying over the entire church and each individual
church member. Thank God that the Holy Spirit moved powerfully during this time!
God gave each one of us a Word through Peter and his team (Derrick and Maggie)
from Brisbane!
Church Camp 2006 (7-9th July 2006)
This year, we had our annual church camp at the Hunua Falls again. Our
theme this year was "A Loving Church", and our guest speaker was Ps
Denis Lu from Kuching, Malaysia. Thank God that everything went smoothly
and we had such an awesome time fellowshipping together!
