One of the key identities of Kingsford Church of Christ is that

we are servants, and as servants we give.

We give to one another, sharing our gifts, resources, time, energy, finances and anything else we have at our disposal so that we can faithfully steward the varied grace that the Lord has given us.

We do this out of earnest love for one another, because we have experienced the earnest love of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Peter 4:8-11).

Our hope with serving at Kingsford Church of Christ is for each of us to serve one another in some capacity,

serving in areas that help us to both grow and flourish. 

 

BELOW, YOU WILL FIND THE AREAS TO SERVE IN:

Click the link to register your interest in serving https://kingsfordchurch.elvanto.com.au/form/6b789074-6c52-4479-a147-0f0636928b7f

• Sunday Club/YAK
  • This role requires you to help support the childrens ministry. You'd need to be there early, and you would miss out on the sermon for that week. Some training is required as well as an up-to-date Working with Children Check.
• Table@399 - Faith|Food|Friendship
  • There are 3-4 main areas to choose from. They are:
    • Preparation - Packing bags of fruit and vegetables delivered by OzHarvest
    • Serving meals - During the afternoon dinner, meals are lovingly served to those who attend
    • Clean-up - This may involve packing chairs and tables, and general cleaning duties
• Music Team
  • This role requires you to have a decent measure of musical ability either in singing or playing an instrument. You will be required to arrive early for rehearsal and work with the team.
• Tech Team
  • This is running the sound desk or putting the lyrics on the screen or controlling the camera. The sound desk requires a bit of knowledge and experience, whereas the lyrics and camera operator are pretty straight forward. You would need to be there early on the day that youre rostered on.
• Muscles & Maintenance
  • This role requires you to assist with general maintenance of the church facility, and may include tasks such as gardening, general cleaning, or moving items like chairs and tables.
• Smiles
  • First impressions are important, and feeling welcomed is often the difference between someone staying at a church or leaving. You need to know how to smile and make small talk.
• Sunday Fellowship
  • If you like to entertain and ensure there is more than enough tea, coffee, and food to go around, you will be a great fit.
• Life Group
  • As much as we want you to serve in community, it is also important to receive in community - friendship, faith (and sometimes even food)!

HOW WE DO ALL OF THIS:

There are a few principles that guide the way we want to serve:

1. Serving should be both a challenge and a joy. Jesus Christ served us by giving his life to us for the joy that was set before him. Serving ought to be a joyful experience. To that end, we always encourage people to nominate an area that they would really enjoy serving as well as an area that would stretch them. 
2. Church isnt a machine, and were not cogs. We dont want to be burning one another out with our expectations, so while its important that we are serving at least once per month, its our policy that no one should be serving more than twice per month, and where we can help it, we try to not let someone serve two weeks in a row. This can't always be helped, especially when people are unavailable or when there are five Sundays in a particular month, but we do our best. 
3. Good structures protect people. We want to be as organised and as diligent as we can because a good and well-maintained structure allows us to keep these principles. We use an online platform called Elvanto which helps us stay organised, and our simple request is that we do our best to reply to serving invite emails, and keep our unavailabilities up to date. That might not make sense now, but when you start using the app, it will. 

Dear Church Members

 

Would you please note that a Special Members Meeting for our church will be held on Sunday 1st June 2025 after our morning service at 11am in the lower hall.

Members are required to vote either Yes/No on the two resolutions below :-

Resolution 1

Approving the church name to be changed from, “Kingsford Church of Christ” to, “Kingsford Church of Christ Incorporated”.

Please refer to the attached Notice – Special Members Meeting (Name Change)

 

Resolution 2

Approve the redevelopment of the church site, the overview of which is below:

 i.        Authorising The Churches of Christ Property Trust (“Property Trust”), as the owner
and trustee of 399 Anzac Parade, Kingsford (“KC Land”), to enter into an irrevocable agreement with an adjoining landowner and developer (“Developer”) to transfer the KC Land to the Developer, and for the Developer at its cost, to construct:

 

· multi-storey student accommodation (that is, when completed, to be in a stratum owned by the Developer); &

· a church building (with car parking), community space, and retail area for the purposes of KC (that is, when completed, to be in a stratum owned by the Property Trust and held on trust and for the benefit of KC);

and

 

ii.         Delegating authority to the KC Board to provide instructions to the Trust for all matters related to the above;   

 

Please refer to the attached Notice – Special Members Meeting (Redevelopment) which explains the resolution.

 

It is noted that members must appear in person to cast their vote by secret ballot on the above 2 Resolutions on the 1st June 2025 at the above meeting.

 

INFORMATION MEETING – SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2025 – 3pm

In order for our church members to be informed, people are invited to attend an information Q & A meeting at the church on Saturday 17th May at 3pm on the proposed redevelopment of the church site.

Mr Michael Radovnikovic (9Springs Pty Ltd), our project management consultant who is handling the negotiations with the Developer (Avenor) will be giving us the essential details of the redevelopment.  Mr Matthew Young (Churches of Christ NSW/ACT) who is involved with the redevelopment has been invited to attend.

 

Yours in His Service,

Gregory W Won

Church Secretary