MISSION

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19)
"We want every member of CoastEC to love the lost and to partner together to give as many of the 25,000 people living in our region as possible a compelling reason to believe the gospel"

Mission is about growing in our love for the lost and helping them come to know Jesus.

VISITORS

We had a crazy amount of new people visit one of our programs for the 1st time this year - almost 300!

Many of them have never been to church before and are open to exploring the faith.

Praise God for the way He is drawing people to Himself.

Let's keep inviting people along, and being intentional about welcoming them into our fellowship.

EXPLORE 

We launched a new weekly small group for those exploring Christianity.

It was a great time of Q&A plus reading through Mark's gospel, as we ate dessert,

The Lord used that to bring Austin McElroy, Megan Johnston and Rhiannon Wilkinson into a relationship with Jesus!

These brothers and sisters had all attended LIFE at the end of 2023 and this was a great next step for them!

Thanks Ally Hawkins for co-leading with me!! Legend!!

Please also pray that many more come along this year and meet Jesus for themselves. 

One of the suggestions at Dream and Scheme was to also run this one morning of the week, with child-minding, so young families could attend. I love this idea, and when we have our own building (across the road from the school), I'd like to give this a crack.

BAPTISMS

In 2024, we celebrated the baptisms of James Davison, Ryan Fryer, Megan Johnston, Mitch Loretan, Bec Maher, Austin McElroy, Pippa Nelson-Hauer, Ruben Nichols, Jaylee Teague and Rhiannon Wilkinson

How good is it seeing the Lord grab hold of people, wash them clean and make them His!

MOORE MISSION

We had a team of students from Moore College come and partner with us for a week.

It was great to see the next generation of gospel leaders being raised up.

Please pray for the Lord of the Harvest to keep raising up more workers for the harvest field (eg pastors, missionaries and church planters)

LIFE

We ran our LIFE series at Club Forster and had a bunch of new guests hear the gospel.

I was especially encouraged by how many people invited their friends, and for the way our guests were welcomed so well!

Some have even started coming to church too!

CHURCH PLANTING

New churches reach new people!

In 2020 we planted MBC in Taree.

Since then, our network has also started new churches in Coffs Harbour and South Grafton.

Later this year we'll be starting another new church up at Lennox Head / Ballina in partnership with other churches in our network.

Mike Davis will lead the plant. He's currently serving on staff at Lighthouse Church on the Central Coast.

We'll be supporting the new work up there in prayer and finances.

Please pray for God to gather His people up there, and consider moving up there to be part of the action.

FURTHER ABROAD