Welcome to our Summer 2024 issue of TOGETHER – stories from around our Victorian Baptist Union.
This issue is focused around Celebrations! As you will see as you move through the pages of this magazine we are celebrating milestones, events, programmes, services and people across the union throughout 2024.
We begin this issue by celebrating and farewelling Rev Meewon Yang, our longest serving staff member at the BUV Support Hub. We also take the opportunity to celebrate some significant intercultural milestones and events that Meewon has contributed to. You’ll read a wrap up of October Gathering events and join with us in celebrating our newly ordained Pastors.
In addition, you’ll read some case studies of excellent leadership development journeys and some wonderful stories of mission focused community engagement. An Advent resource is included that has been developed by Crossover Australia and, as usual, we check in with a couple of our agencies, update you on pastoral movements and provide some key dates for 2025.
And as we look forward to 2025, we are looking forward to the biggest celebration of Baptists Australia we will see for some time at the Baptist World Congress in July of 2025. We hope you are planning to join us in Brisbane in July next year!
Thank you for whatever part you have played in our Baptist Union of Victoria in 2025 – whether that be as a church member, a pastor, leader, volunteer or staff member. We value and appreciate each one of you and my prayer is that you would be blessed as together, we celebrate the advent season and the miracle birth of our King Jesus.
Daniel
