Today is the 5 year anniversary of the new St Mark’s Malabar church. Time has flown! All those years ago, I remember being excited, nervous, but in no doubt that it was the right thing to come to Malabar. AABC (Asian Australian Bible Church) had reached the point where we needed a new mission and a new physical home. Looking back, we also needed some older and wiser Christian saints in our midst to help us. We knew a move was going to be challenging but knew God would be with us.
It has turned out to be a fantastic adventure. Wonderful friendships, eye-opening, rich experiences.
We need to thank God for being with us all the way. Thank God for Jesus and his Spirit. He has helped us love each other- a lot has happened in the last five years and God has had his fingerprints all over it. Marriages, babies born, kids growing up fast, new people joined and now ‘part of the woodwork’, so many outreach events (from food nights to big community carols events), growing, striving, and changing. Change is hard for some, and there’s been lots of change. Thank God that he has given our church a humility, particularly amongst those who don’t like change or who can get impatient that change happens too slowly. God has kept us working hard together in love, in the Great Commission- making disciples of all nations.
Looking ahead I can’t wait to see what God has next for us. I have plans galore, but I know God has even better plans and he is Lord. One thing I know he wants us to do, is to be made new in Christ, maturing in Christ, and making Christ known.

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