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A new director for Evangelism Ministries

June 25th, 2009 Joshua Kuswadi Leave a comment Go to comments

I wasn’t at the church planting conference held at Moore College today (and tomorrow). However, I read the exciting news that Al Stewart is going to be heading up Evangelism Ministries from January next year. Last year I was a student minister at Evangelism Ministries and benefited greatly from the experience. I was given opportunity to write talks which explained the good news about Jesus. These were then critiqued before I gave them at various church services or events.

Sure, it helped my preaching skills. Yet, more importantly was the great benefit of being reminded that God is the one who gives the growth. I learned this most valuable lesson after giving the same talk a third time and finding out that someone responded in repentance and faith. Certainly had nothing to do with my delivery of the talk or the content of it. Rather God’s Spirit was at work that particular night in the heart of that particular person.

May God give wisdom to Al and the EM board as they consider how to restructure to further promote evangelism and church planting.

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  1. Seb Lane
    June 25th, 2009 at 19:03 | #1
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    Hey Josh,
    Two questions:
    1. Is Evangelism Ministries – Anglican? or Independent?
    2. Is there any reason (that you know of) behind an independent church planting network being set up in Sydney instead of a ‘Sydney Acts 29′ network?

    Praise the Lord for his work in Sydney,
    and the sinner saved in your thread.

  2. Dani
    June 25th, 2009 at 20:59 | #2
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    First comment! Yay! :)

    Exciting news- but I’m not sure how to feel about the change from evangelism to church planting. That seems to be a significant shift in emphasis for EM doesn’t it?

  3. Joshua Kuswadi
    June 25th, 2009 at 23:52 | #3
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    Seb,
    1. Evangelism Ministries is an organisation that is part of the Sydney Anglican Diocese.
    2. I know nothing about either an independent church planting network, nor ‘Sydney Acts 29′ network. Sorry.

    Dani,
    Church planting will no doubt be a change, but I don’t know that it needs to be a significant shift.
    a – you can’t plant a church without evangelism
    b – assuming God works through evangelistic efforts, church planting might be a way to do follow up.

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