What is GCiM?
GCiM encourages churches & individuals to be proactively involved in effective mission. We also provide support services to mission partners scattered around the world. Our work with churches ... There are a number of ways we provide that specific encouragement, support & focus in our work with churches. When we visit we can listen & enable discovery of the gifts God has given your church to work withcomplete a mission awareness profile of your church to enlarge your mission opportunitiespartici...
July 3, 2017Commendations
Fenton Park Bible Church would like to advise you of the commendation of Ruth to her work with Interserve in a restricted access country. The Elders of Northgate Community Church are please to commend David & Kendal Duthie to the work they are currently doing with WEC. The Elders of Heretaunga Christian Centre and The Coast Community Church are pleased to advise the commendation of Alistair & Linda MacKinnon to serve with Military Life under Tandem Ministries NZ. The role calls for significant t...
June 30, 2017Psalm 67 – Blessed to be a blessing
This short but completely symmetrical psalm may have ended Sabbath worship in the Temple in Jerusalem and followed the priestly blessing recorded in Numbers 6:24-26. Worshippers would have then departed feeling the warmth of the promised goodness of God. This benediction oriented worshippers towards acknowledging God’s generosity in harvest, in vintage, in calving and lambing and in child-bearing. But the structure of this psalm, like much Hebrew poetry, is chiastic – like the Greek letter C...
June 30, 2017Special Donee Status for GC Aid
Earlier this month we received some very good news. GC Aid has been granted ‘Schedule 32’ Donee Status! Generally, donations to charities and churches in New Zealand qualify for a one-third tax credit when a gift is spent within the country. Each of our GC3 trusts has that general Donee Status. It means that when an individual gives $300 to us for our activities within NZ, we can issue a donation receipt that can be used to claim $100 back in their IR526 Tax Credit Claim form. However, gifts...
June 30, 2017Psalm 2 - Crowning God as King
Psalm 2 is a coronation song. Coronations in Israel were often like a breath of fresh air, a new beginning, raising the hopes of loyal Israelites for better things ahead. If times had been bad, or the previous king was old and weak, the coronation of another prince promised a new start. But a new king often meant that tax-paying subject nations around worked to throw off the shackles of dependency, or to broker a new deal with the new and inexperienced king. So this enthronement anthem acted as ...
June 26, 2017Who Is GC3?
The aim of GC3 is to enhance mission involvement within the network of Christian Brethren Churches in New Zealand and around the world.GC3's vision statement is "Effective Mission through every Church"GC3 values strategic, shared faith based mission partnerships, empowered by prayerful dependence on God that proclaims the good news of the Gospel, loves justice, and through activities of rebuilding and renewal restores broken communities.GC3 values culturally appropriate accou...
June 13, 2017Giving New Life
Karen and I were married in 1982 and it was one year later in 1983 that we saw the Anastasis, YWAM's first ship, come into Tauranga. We took a tour, heard stories of spreading the gospel around the world, receiving training and extending acts of compassion and mercy to those hurting and we got hooked. Our plan was to leave for just six months, combine some overseas adventure along with receiving Bible training. Well, be careful what you commit to short term! That is how you end up as long term m...
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