The C3 Global Fast — 21 days of prayer of fasting from 9th- 28th March 2013 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12 The secret to a major breakthrough in any circumstance is [...]
Empower Your Church in Soul Winning — Nicola Gibb
How to Empower a Church in Soul Winning Soul winning is easy when believers are full of JOY, and they understand HOW to win souls! Many of God’s people have been crippled and silenced through disappointment, which is the opposite of joy. If left festering, disappointments can turn to unbelief. Unbelief is sin! Ouch! BUT… There [...]
Alpha Update — Craig Sparrow
Alpha Report for C3 Church Victory, Newcastle Last year, C3 Victory ran Student Alpha throughout our church. Not only was it a great course with relevant and culturally appropriate material, but it provided the church with an effective tool to reach pre-believing friends. The mandate of the local church is to reach lost people and [...]
NCD: Empowering Your Small Group — Steve White
During the first week of June this year Christian Schwarz, the founder of Natural Church Development (NCD) toured Australia. It was great to meet up with many of our C3 NCD representatives around the country at Christian’s conferences. Christian introduced his new resources that particularly address the quality characteristics of ‘Empowering Leadership’ and ‘Holistic Small [...]
Vibrant Connect Groups — Rob Buckingham
What Makes a Connect Group Vibrant? Why Is It Important To Have Vibrant Connect Groups? What makes them so? Walking into a large auditorium where you don’t know anyone can be rather daunting at the best of times. If that auditorium is a Church, where yes, you may get a welcome from a few people [...]
People & Places to Connect — Claude Carrello
Connect Group Makeover Three years ago we realized the need to change our approach to building Connect Groups in our church. They were not working and we knew we had to think outside the box of the past. In the past our Connect Group ministry had created social connections and a place for friendships to [...]
Small Groups — Julie Williams
Connect Groups in our church have always been an integral part of the way our people are cared for and connect to God and His family. The core values in our church are LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE, SERVE GOD, SERVE PEOPLE and Connect Groups are an expression of the LOVE PEOPLE section. Loving people in our church family [...]
Spiritual Vitality (II): Keeping Your Church Alive — Mark Kelsey
Fun, Humour and Life I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me! That was a joke…a pretty good one I thought! If you are not laughing it’s because you didn’t get it or you need to laugh more often!! Especially at my jokes! There is no doubt that life can be…and [...]
The Know: March 2012 — Gordon Moore
Welcome to 2012 C3 Church Australia! This is going to be our best year ever. In this addition of The Know we are focussing on “Keeping your Church Alive”. One of the most important concepts to understand about the church is that it is not an organization, it is a living organism because the church [...]
Spiritual Vitality: Keeping Your Church Alive — Phil Pringle
Prayer is the Engine Room You will have heard me say many times that ‘anything that grows lives and anything that doesn’t dies’. For the last few years it has been my mission to get prayer out of the basement, the weird zone and onto main stage. I have sought to have it focused and [...]

