Brendan and Laura Hurley
Brendan & Laura Hurley have served with BCA since early 2019; at St George’s Bluff Point (WA) and now as the Senior Pastor of Saltbush Evangelical Church in Broken Hill.
The Hurley's Prayer Points for May 2023
Please pray that at Saltbush we can worship Jesus in every aspect of our lives. Ask God to help us to take our holiness seriously. Pray that we will encourage each other to put sin to death and to live for Jesus.
Pedro and Joy Oliveira-Woolmer
Pedro and Joy, along with their 3 children Mark, Zoe and Emilia serve with CMS in Montevideo, Uruguay, where they are seeking to minister among university students.
Roger and Noriko Dethlefs
Noriko and Roger are staff workers with KGK in Tokyo, encouraging university students in their Christian faith. Noriko also helps missionaries, including Roger, with language learning. They are involved in a Japanese church.
Church Missionary Society
We support CMS who works with churches to set apart, support and equip long-term workers who cross cultures to share the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Moore Theological College
We support Moore College whose vision is to see God glorified by men and women living for and proclaiming Jesus Christ, growing healthy churches and reaching the lost.
Anglicare
We support Anglicare in the work it does to support people at all stages of life in our community. Our partnership involves hosting the Mobile Food Van once a fortnight on our church site, the provision of essential food and social support at our weekly ‘Food and Friends’ ministry, and the running of an after-school ‘Youth Connect’ programme in one of our local schools.
AFES
We support the work of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES) as it seeks to make Jesus known on university campuses across Australia.
WCCEB
We support the work happening in our local secondary schools through the Wollongong Combined Churches Education Board. Our partnership involves our own youth minister James Ulrich teaching SRE in one of the schools.
Red Frogs Australia
We support the work Red Frogs does in providing safety and care for young adults who may find themselves in vulnerable situations, both locally here in Wollongong and nationally during ‘schoolies week’ on the Gold Coast.
Compassion Australia
We support the work of Compassion Australia, particularly through the promotion of its child sponsorship programmes happening across the globe. A number of our church family are sponsors helping to provide financial, social and spiritual support for the most needy.