Marilyn’s birthday today; yes I remembered. Marilyn always says that she never married a Pastor, but after nearly thirty years in ministry she has been an amazing support and encouragement. We have had an incredible journey and are thankful for the wonderful church God has given to us.

We would like to thank you all for your support again this year; it has been huge with the building of our new Junior College Campus. We always feel so encouraged and privileged to be your Pastors.
We are so blessed with tremendous Elders who are so supportive and have always been there to encourage the vision of the church.
Thank you to our staff for putting in so much creative energy into our programmes and pastoral care, and making the church such a fun place to work.

We have again put on a special Christmas Production for you this year and will hold two services on Christmas morning at East. I trust that you can attend and join with us as we celebrate our Lord’s birth.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
May God richly bless you,
Luke and Marilyn

It was really sad to hear that Tony Johnson passed away last Saturday after fighting an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease. Tony and Karen joined our team in our early years and headed up our children’s work and oversaw the youth.
Tony had a great passion for children, and developed a programme for us called Touchdown All Stars. It incorporated Sunday services and a holiday programme that attracted up to three hundred children each day. It found huge favour with our community and resulted in many families coming into the church.
Tony also developed a model of mentoring our youth as leaders in this programme, and many of those early Touchdown leaders are now church leaders. He was an outstanding leader.

Tony and Karen were generous supporters and encouragers in the building of the East church. At one stage the contractors, Canam Construction, offered us up to twelve of their top carpenters for free; we only had to supply materials. The problem was that we didn’t have any money until Tony and Karen stepped up and gave us a generous gift.
Karen and the family also made a huge contribution to our music. We are indebted to them. Tony was a great husband, dad and servant of God.