Engage
Engage focuses on initiatives that build the capacity of families, meet social isolation
needs and help people manage their money.
This is where many of our existing ministries such as Roundabout, Marriage Support,
Tuesday Lunch, Speaking English Classes, CAP Money, Now You’re Cooking and Shed sit
within EL.
It has been great to see Playgroup, another existing ministry within the Engage stream,
be reinvigorated and go from strength to strength this year thanks to the hard work of
Pastor Deb Elliot.
As a future initiative within this stream Pastor Dan Beasy and I are looking at the
possibility of partnering with the Campbelltown Council in the establishment of a
Community Garden and/or a Fruit & Veggie Swap.
Restore
Restore is committed to care that focuses on the whole person ‘physical, emotional, &
spiritual’, leading towards restored function and wellbeing.
This year has seen the establishment of our restoring ministries with five people being
trained to facilitate the Lifekeys Courses. Courses such as Valiant Man that has been run
4 times this year with between five to eight men in each course being blessed and
strengthened in the area of sexual integrity.
We also ran our first Search for Life (Women) with seven ladies attending the ten week
course. We hope to run more Search for Life courses next year for both men and
women.
At the time of writing this report we are preparing to run our first Divorce Recovery
course and next year plan to continue to launch new courses such as Healthy Lifestyles,
Woman to Woman, and Kids with Courage to name a few. We will also be continuing to
train and equip new facilitators to run these courses.