AN INTERESTING WORLD RESEARCH STUDY OF EVERY CHURCH IN ONE SAMPLE CITY, FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SEE INFORMATION ABOUT CHURCH.
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1. 57 people.
2. 70% capacity.
3. Type: Scriptural, fairly smart dressed hands on workers.
4. Socio- Economic Status: Blue collar electricians.
5. Kids? Mostly young families
6. Ages? 0-70
7. Men 50%
8. Weekly offering? -. (They give $1500 per month to 2 Overseas and 3 Australian
missionaries!)
9. Lateness of people getting to church. -
10. Any other interesting information. These are not closed but open Brethren,
everyone is welcome.
11. Time AND date. 21/5/00
12. Time service went till. First there is the 9.30-10.30am Bible Study where
most people go and continue to the 11am Worship service 60 people which goes
for an hour with a cup of tea time for 30 minutes at 10.30am.
13. This and other service times. Only a handful only came to the 11am service.
14. Preacher. There are no "Pastors" in any Brethren church, only
elders (unpaid).
15. Feeling of building. Old but warm.
*16. Estimate style of belief. Strongly evangelical which any Baptist, Church
of Christ or Charismatic person would enjoy. All Brethrens look at you clueless
if you start talking about Charismatic gifts.
*17. Dress to not stand out. Men do not have to wear business attire. Women
do not have to wear a head covering like a scarf or hat.
18. Travel along Drayton Rd, go past South St, turn left into Violet St.
5pm/ 6.30pm BRETHREN CHURCH. HARRISTOWN ASSEMBLY.
1. 50 PEOPLE.
2. 80%
3. Seemed to be lots of kids and family.
4. Socio- Economic Status: -.
5. Ditto. 6. Ditto. 7. Ditto. 8. Ditto. 9. Ditto.
*10. Any other interesting information: This dinner is a very popular event
and the event goes over really well. The Elders change things till they find
something they all like.
11. Time AND date. 2/7/00 40 mins.
12. Time service went till. 6.30pm.
13. This and other service times. 5pm-6.30pm Family tea /dinner 2/7/00 1st Sunday
of month followed by meeting at 6.30pm. Weekly meetings 6.30pm for an hour.
*14. Preacher: Industrial Evangelist Geoff Vines (Ex-biker, goes as an "Industrial
Chaplain" to small firms too, not big ones. He works with 2 organisations
and has a very fruitful ministry resulting in some indirectly coming to Christ.
Tells the snake who swallowed the hard boiled egg story and killed himself and
an alcoholic came to Christ. He gets called if there's a death and goes to Gladstone
Comalco twice a year and does Northgate, lives at Logan.)
15. Warm, bit old but clean.
16. Estimate style of belief: -.
*17. Dress to not stand out: Don't have anything to do with Closed Brethren.
The rules are women to wear hats but they don't. Men do not have to wear business
attire. So women do not have to wear a head covering like a scarf or hat.
18. Travel along Drayton Rd, go past South St, turn left into Violet St.
1. NUMBER OF PEOPLE: 30 on 13 Feb 2005. (32 on 6 Apr 2003)
2. NUMBER OF CHAIRS: 45.
3. Type of person: A mix of ex AOG Spring, Trinity, Agape and non- churched.
4. Socio-Economic Status: -.
5. Amount of kids: Six.
6. Ages of people: 6 were 60+.
**7. 50% are men. There were exactly 13 men and 13 women, not counting
children. Normally churches have one-third male congregations but this was a
first service. If things are perfect, the men tend to stay.
8. Weekly offering published: -.
9. Lateness of people getting to church: 4 at 10.30am.
**10. Any other interesting information: This was the first service of
this church. 6 Apr 2003. 3 people were saved, 3 non- church goers got prayer.
Pastor said "One woman's operation was cancelled for a mastectomy on Tuesday
after we prayed for her on Sunday. She had a pile of test results but the Doctors
said the tests were wrong." Also said "We were originally from Toowoomba,
we had been living in Perth for years and I believe God has sent us here to
act as a BRIDGE between Jesus and anyone who needs a miracle of healing."
A medical doctor became a Christian there and testified that she'd swear in
a court of law that her foot got miraculously healed the improvement was that
noticeable.
11. TIME THERE AND DATE OF VISIT: 30 on 13 Feb 2005 10.15am - 1pm. (32 on 6
Apr 2003) 9am- 2pm.
12. Length of service: 2 hours.
13. This and other service times: 10am.
14. Preacher: Rev Dr Clive Smith. (Australian evangelist to 3rd world.) (The
Pastor is Ps John Burgess. John was a Pastor with the Toowoomba Potter's House
from 1993 till 1997. He returned to Perth where he separated from the Perth
based Potter's House movement in 2001 where he then evangelised around the world.
15. Feeling of building: Good.
16. Estimate style of belief: That anyone can be healed of diseases. Charismatic.
Not specifically Toronto Blessing style. Rev Dr Clive Smith said Feb 2005 "As
I did, Potters House came out of Four Square Gospel Church USA, founder Aimee
Semple McPherson from Oakland, California in July 1922."
17. Dress code so as not to stand out: Very casual to slightly formal.
18. How to get there: Travel along Hume St and park at the side of the church.
*25. EMPHASIS OF MINISTRY: Healing of hearts, diseases.
Demonic oppression.
*28. KNOWABLE SONGS: Quite. (Virtually no Hillsongs, Pastor said he once went
into a church and Jesus name was not mentioned once in six songs.)
29. Quality of sound system/ loudness: Rented from International Music.
30. Quality of preaching generally: Quite good
34. Amount of home groups: One. John had a home group for several months before
starting. (7pm-8pm home group at Pastor's house where "everyone gets their
twenty cents worth and there's lots of fun.")
38. Estimate percentage church owned / rented?: Rented.
39. Estimate age of building: 70yo.
40. Dowdiness of building outside: Fair.
41. Inside?: OK. Plastic chairs.
**42. Have sister churches where? None. It's an independent Charismatic
church, not associated with any denomination. John would like to see sister
churches come from this church without it being a bible college based program
but being more hands on.
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