SALT 2010 - Finding, Recruiting and Training Leaders
10th - 12th September
Arrive 7.30pm Friday
Depart 2.00pm Sunday

Telford Conference Centre, Rathane Road, Royal National Park
$140 Full time
$60 Saturday day rate

Download a brochure here

The annual dinner for pastors, theological students and final year ministry apprentices to come together and talk shop is on 27 July 2009 at West Sydney Chinese Christian Church, in Strathfield.

This is a unique event for pastors / deacons to come and meet up-and-coming students for yourself, and for theologs to see the great needs out there among Chinese churches.

If you're a theological student open to working in a Chinese church, or if you're a pastor / deacon looking for an English pastor or student minister, we'd love for you to come!

Theological students and apprentices should RSVP to Andrew Hong at andrew.hong@ndcccs.org.au, and pastors / deacons should RSVP to Brian Tung at brian.tung@hope.anglican.asn.au. RSVPs now closed. The dinner is free for theologs, and $10 for pastors / deacons.

You can get the poster for the dinner as a PDF from the downloads section here, and an invite as a PDF from here.

An invitation letter for pastors / deacons / elders in English and Chinese can be downloaded as a PDF from here.

The SCCCA leadership retreat is back on again this year, complete with a new name: the SALT Retreat - Sydney Asian Leadership Training Retreat!

It's on the weekend of Friday September 11 to Sunday September 13, at Mountain Camp in Katoomba. Lock in the dates!

This year's theme is On Solid Ground -we'll be looking at the foundations for not only ministry, but our churches and our own Christian lives. If you found it great last year ... come, and invite your friends along! Registration is now closed!

Download the flyer here: front | back

SCCCA has a number of great events happening this year that we'd love for you to put into your diary. Here they are!

1. Theologs / Pastor's dinner - 27 July 2009, WSCCC (Strathfield)

A rare event for pastors/leaders of Chinese churches to come together and meet Bible college students ('theologs') who may be open to serving in a Chinese church. If you're a Bible college student, come along and hear about the needs, and meet some of the people who are eager to grow their ministry! Download the poster here. RSVPs now closed. Contact persons: Andrew Hong, Brian Tung.

2. SCCCA Leader's retreat - 11-13 September 2009, Mountain Camp (Katoomba)

We started off with a bang last year - ask those who went! And this year we're looking forward to sustaining and pushing on leaders even more at our Sydney leader's retreat. An excellent opportunity for all you Bible study group leaders, youth leaders, and Sunday School teachers out there! Download the flyer here: front | back. Registration now closed. For more information contact Derek Cheng, Ying Yee.

3. Challenge night - 10th October 2009, Trinity Grammar School (Summer Hill)

Did you know? only half the ABC congregations in Sydney actually have an English pastor! Come and hear about the challenges, pray for more workers, consider how you can be involved. Contact persons: Tom Tokura, Steve Oh.

4. Regional training nights - various locations

SCCCA English also holds high-value regular training for leaders in several locations. This year in the North-West (monthly) and the South-West (fortnightly) of Sydney. See the Regional training page for further details.

Hope to see you at some of these events!

Don't you hate pressing halfway down on your camera trigger, waiting for the camera to respond to it's autofocus... Then confidently taking the snap... only to realise the photo is out of focus? The photo has no clarity!

Tuesday 14th October marks the 2nd SCCCA Challenge Night for 2008. It is a night for you as church leaders to refocus on the mission of reaching Sydney with the gospel. Week to week we can get bogged down into serving at church and becomes a humdrum experience in our Christian walk. There are times we need to take a step back and be reminded of and see our vision. To see it with clarity.

Peter Lin (minister at St Barnabas, Fairfield) will challenge us from God's word. There will also be time to ask questions to a panel of pastors. And of course like any good Asian Christian gathering, fellowship over supper.

This evening is NOT JUST for people considering full time paid ministry. It is for all of us to be reminded of the challenge to full time ministry, whether paid or lay.


Make sure you can see the vision for the gospel with clarity.

Details:

"Seeing With Clarity" - SCCCA Challenge Night
8pm, Tuesday 14th October
Burwood Chinese Presbyterian Church
46-48 Belmore Street, Burwood 2134

Download a flyer for the challenge night here

Saturday 11th October 2008 AD
9.00am - 4.30pm
Sydney Young Nak Korean Church
7-9 Manson Street, Telopea
$40 rego and lunch fee

An opportunity for you and your church leadership to think through how to best grow as first and second generation leaders in ministry. Let your pastors, elders and deacons know. Invite them along and learn together how you can grow a first and second generation church. Dr. Peter Lai who leads a Chinese church in LA, but who has a parallel model of ministry with his English ministry is coming in to run a 1 day conference on 1st and 2nd generation models of ministry (1 day only on Saturday in Paramatta). What makes this unique is that they'll be Chinese, Koreans, Islanders, Egyptians, Ghanian etc church leaders coming along as they face the same challenges that the Chinese churches face with 1st and 2nd generation leadership and ministry. If you are in leadership in the Chinese church, whether a overseas born chinese leader or a australian born chinese leader, this is for you. Bring your churches leadership so you can learn together, and see what others are doing to grow the ministry and mission of jesus in our city in cross cultural ministry.


Ministry to 2nd Generation

Our world needs the gospel of Jesus.

Our churches need leaders for the future to take this gospel to the world, both lay leaders and paid leaders.

The SCCCA Leadership Conference will be a great time for like minded people from Chinese Churches across Sydney to catch the vision of sharing the gospel, to think through what this means for the rest of our lives, and to spend time with others thinking through these issues.

It's a conference for people who are or want to be in paid ministry positions. But it is ALSO for those who are planning to remain in lay leadership of churches.

[b]SCCCA Leadership Conference
12-14th September, 2008
Wedderburn Christian Campsite
Minerva Road, Wedderburn, NSW 2560

Download a flyer at http://www.sccca-english.org.au/download.php?view.14

Registration closed!

Monday 14th July, 7pm
Location: St Paul's Anglican Church, Carlingford

For pastors, theological students and final year apprentices.
Theologs should RSVP to Andrew Hong (andrew.hong@ndcccs.org.au) by 9th July. Dinner is FREE for theologs and final year apprentices.

Pastors/Deacons should RSVP to Brian Tung (brian.tung@hope.anglican.asn.au). Dinner is $10.

Download a flyer here.

The ANZCCOE is coming up this July (1st - 4th) in Melbourne, which has been predominantly Chinese speaking. Under the CCCOWE banner (Chinese Conference On World Evangelism), and held every 3 years it brings together Chinese pastors and lay leaders across the Asia Pacific region. This time however they are running a parallel English track that Ying and Eugene are responsible for. It's a first, and we hope to bring together English speaking pastors, gospel workers and lay leaders from across Australia to

1. share the vision of reaching our nation and raising the next generation,
2. training and equipping for their ministry and
3. networking and establishing bridges for future partnerships with them.

The theme Bible expositions by Michael Raiter will be on 'Renewing A Passion For Jesus & His Gospel', which promises to be challenging as we think of what that will mean for us in our cities. What excites me more than anything else will be the opportunity to meet, share, learn from and encourage others in English ministry across our nation (or perhaps even compare battle scars!).

The upcoming conference will provide a unique opportunity for us to begin building bridges interstate and partnerships to grow ministry interstate (as we have done in Brisbane with Brisbane Leadership Training Conferences), and also to share a wider vision for raising the next generation for ministry and mission within and outside the Chinese church. We are a nation of 21 million people, where less than 3% (700,000) are Christian. There are over 20 million unreached people groups in our cities across our nation. It will take more than one church and one generation to see the mission of Jesus realized.

Those of us in Sydney have a unique opportunity to contribute by our presence and fellowship with others, as we have by far the largest number of men and women involved in second generation ministry, and have a much longer history in terms of the development of ABC ministry and MAP (Ministry Apprentice Program) in our city.

I hope you'll consider coming as we hope to make this a significant event in laying the foundation to seeing the gospel reaching generations of men and women in cities across our nation. More than anything else please be praying for this conference.

Download a registration form here: http://www.sccca-english.org.au/download.php?view.8

Uncle Sam was recruiting soldiers to fight for freedom...
The Lord Jesus was and still is recruiting soldiers to fight for freedom. A freedom found in Jesus alone!

Are you ready to step up?

SCCCA Challenge night is designed for Christians who are thinking about the prospects of their future in full time PAID Christian ministry. Whether you are a n00b to the idea and wondering why I emphasised "PAID" just before... or whether you are pro and already know what MTS and MAP stand for and where you plan to do it... this is an evening for you!

There will be a talk to challenge your thinking and time for small groups to speak with others and pray together. People who are either asking the same questions as you and are facing the same issues you are, or people who have been through these things before and are now pastors, or studying at college or doing a ministry apprenticeship.

Details:
8pm, Tuesday 13th May
Burwood Chinese Presbyterian Church
46-48 Belmore Street, Burwood