The pain of goodbyes and the joy of hellos

Churches matter!

The local congregation is the true church of God, and local church ministry must be the centre of our ministry. But we live in a city where one in five people have moved suburb in the last five years, where there are good churches in most suburbs, and where members made choices about which church to attend for fleeting reasons, making their commitment to any particular congregation much looser than the minister desires. And so it is an all too common occurrence that people leave a congregation to join another.

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