FAQ's about local community which effect Christians.
FAQ Community issues
FAQ'S.
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MORAL ISSUES
DOES OUR HOSPITAL DO ABORTIONS?
A Gynecologist says that Queensland does NOT DO abortions in hospital. The Christian
Gynecologist works at Toowoomba Base Hospital. He said "In Queensland you
cannot get an abortion in any public hospital. It does not happen." Date:
4/2002. He also said "Pregnancy Help is a pro-life organisation. Other
states do abortions. Some small places in Qld do abortions for a certain cost."
WHAT WAS THAT FEMALE FLOAT IN THE CARNIVAL OF FLOWERS? In the September 2002 Carnival of Flowers there was a float which only said "Gentleman's club. Country girls." With 20 or so young women, aged 18- 25yo, dancing. These women are from the Norville Hotel in Russel St. Unbeknown to many, they do pole stripping, private party stripping and have bare breasted staff. Hailing from the Gold Coast.
ANY TRUTH TO THE RUMOUR THAT THERE WERE 20 PREGNANCIES AT A CHRISTIAN CAMP?
There were 20 pregnancies at their National Lutheran camp. Also, a pastor's
son got 2 girls pregnant.
WHERE DO THE PROFITS GO AT CAFE FORTE? 29/3/02 $1500/year gets given to chaplaincy
at Harristown State High.
WHAT DOES THE WORLD NOT ACCEPT FINANCIALLY? In the National news the football
club the Bulldogs were ridiculed as their wives we're getting paid $44,000 to
$90,000 for being their secretary.
WHAT DOES THE WORLD ACCEPT FROM PASTORS IN AREAS OF SEXUAL FIDELITY?
A SANDGATE BAPTIST PASTOR IS GOING TO JAIL for protecting a 29yo civil engineer
who interfered with or had sex with a 14yo girl. The Pastor ripped up her diary.
He told the judge he wanted the hearing deferred as he was an outstanding member
of the community having been a Pastor there during the mid- 90's. And he was
also going on holidays. The parents didn't report it straight away. 9/7/02
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CHURCH MANAGEMENT ISSUES.
WHAT WORKS IN TITHING?
A deacon of Range Christian Fellowship said "We can get $2700 but we only
got $1600 this week. I've noticed a few trends about collecting. If there's
a drawn out worship time people will be less inclined to give. If they are standing
they will be less inclined. If they are forced to go out to the front they will
be definitely less inclined. If they collect the last thing after a long service,
which happened this morning, they will also be less inclined to give.
WHAT DO CHURCHES DO WHEN YOU LIVE TOGETHER? 29/3/02 CHRONICLE. AOG New Hope front page chronicle. A leader said "We had a lady in church who wanted to live together with her fiancée and we asked her to step down from leadership and she told the Chronicle and it made the front headlines."
HAS THE LIGHT RADIO STATION MOVED? Yes. The Light moved from Margaret St to
St Lukes Anglican at Herries and Ruthven St premises for slightly more rent
money. "It's bigger and cleaner" they said. They shifted from October
2002 - January 2003.
IS TOOWOOMBA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP SHIFTING NEXT TO TOOWOOMBA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE?
Toowoomba Christian Fellowship have been widely rumoured they are going to shift
soon next to Toowoomba City Church's school Toowoomba Christian College on Crows
Nest Rd Highfields. This is not true. Not exactly. The Pastor's wife who lives
on the property told me these next things. It's a 20 acre property which she
and her husband live on and in only in quite a few YEARS will they be shifting
the church out there. The property is not on the highway but is 1.5 minutes
drive west from the highway. The roadway is just North of Toowoomba Christian
College. Quote of Pastor's wife- "We're very happy in our present building."
"We're from Brisbane and we can't understand how Toowoomba people could
have a problem with driving such a short distance out of town." "The
problem is that there is so little funds available."
HOW CAN I INVITE MY FRIENDS
TO CHURCH USING THIS SITE?
If your an evangelical Christian who likes winning the lost. It's possible to
email friends an invitation to your church by sending them a web site address
of this INDEPENDENT web site. It's far less embarrasing than asking your friends
face to face if they want to come to church! (It works well if your going to
do something special in the church like if your a musician for the first time
or are becoming a member.) Someone could get saved!
(It's free! It's cool! Instead of a "cold call" asking a friend to
church, how about inviting them to church via email using this web site!!! This
is highly recommended. How does it work? All you do is this. Think of someone
you would like to invite to church. 2. ASK THEM their email address next time
you see them. 3. Cut and Paste this text - "Here is an invitation to church
this Sunday, if you'd like to come. It's at my church, details are on this INDEPENDANT
web site directory of churches - you can check out the church and what you can
expect here - www.geocities.com/discoverchurch ";. 4. Send it early in
the week, on Monday so they can mentally prepare. 5. It's THAT simple!
Cool, huh?
So why should I invite them? Cause most people NEVER get invited to go to church!
WHY ELSE? Cause most people come to church BECAUSE someone invited them!
WHY ELSE? Cause on that great judgement day, you can look them fair in the eye
and say "Look, did I NOT send you not one, not two but no less than SIX
invitations!" (It's recommended you do NOT only send one invitation. DO
send them periodically. DO send lots of friends and family an invitation IF
YOUR DOING SOMETHING SPECIAL in the church, like your going to be a PART of
the service.)
WHY IS AN EMAIL BETTER? One> Cause it removes all of the embarrassment. Two>
Cause your also giving them information ABOUT THE CHURCH by providing this web
site. Three> Cause this is an INDEPENDENT analysis of your church- this web
site is not biased for your church at all.
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QUASHING RUMOURS
DID THE MURPHIES CREEK
MURDERED BROTHER GO TO NEW HOPE AOG? On Christmas 2001 there was a much publicised
murder case at Murphy's Ck.
It was rumoured this family went to New Hope AOG. This was confirmed to be true.
The murdered guy sang in their church choir and was a regular attendee with
brother and mum.
IS IT TRUE THAT IN 2003 RHEEMA ARE BUILDING A CHURCH COSTING 28 MILLION? I spoke to Ps Steve at Dr Sasha's church and he said "A property developer is building a huge church directly opposite Bond University on the Gold Coast and it will cost $28 million. All these other property developer friends got saved as well and go to the same church.
IS IT TRUE PS FRED EVANS IS STILL ON ANTI - DEPRESSANTS? Not true. Senior Ps
Fred Evans stated publicly late 2002 that he was no longer on anti - depressants.
(Apparently, he had trouble with staff at Yukana Retirement Village.) 12/02
SO WHAT WAS THE REAL PROBLEM WITH YUKANA? The Chronicle reported that none of
the staff would talk to the Chronicle. However, it was reported by the church
that Yukana Village was not making money and there needed to be some hard decisions
being made, so some staff had to be let go to change everything around. One
lady who was dissmissed personally wrote down all the names of the staff displayed
at church. For example, some kitchen hand person now works 12 hours minus a
1.5 hour break. 21 11 02
WHAT HAPPENED TO PASTOR ALAN MAXWELL FROM THE BASEMENT CHURCH AT TOOWOOMBA CITY
CHURCH?
ALAN MAXWELL WAS A YOUTH FOR CHRIST DIRECTOR. Jim Lyons was retrenched some
years ago. Alan Maxwell resigned from Toowoomba Youth Mission in August 2001.
TYM makes furniture and is an arm of Toowoomba City Church with Ps Ian Shelton.
Allan stopped fellowshipping with TCC some 5 months prior and goes to Shiloh.
Allan stopped Pastoring the Basement church at TCC at the end of 2000. He was
running fund raising dinners (1 Sept 2001 $35 Burke and Wills) to get his ministry
off the ground. MAXWELL was alleged to have raised $24,000 at a dinner of 150
people and he received free office space. 1 Sep 2001. As of May 2003 Maxwell
he is no longer with Youth For Christ. He is doing renovation work on his house
and other similar work and instead of going to Shiloh church, he runs his own
small house church.
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REGARDING MUSLIMS
WHAT DO MUSLIM'S DO TO OUR AUSTRALIAN MEAT BEFORE IT IS SHIPPED? The Lutheran dad of a worker at Beef City, near Toowoomba, said "My son told me that Muslim religious men are used to pray for the carcasses before it leaves Australia for export. They sacrifice the animals before Allah. The Muslim religious men are not payed only for this religious work."
IS THE KEBAB SHOP IN EAT ST OWNED BY MUSLIMS? No. There is a Kebab food shop
in Eat St Toowoomba that looks Muslim as it had Mosques painted on their signs.
The owner said he was not very aware of the Mosque building in his logo design.
He comes from a country that isn't Muslim. He's a Catholic and has gone to St
Patricks Cathedral for the last 4 years. As of April 2003 the signs had been
replaced due to people complaining.
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WHICH CURCH DOES THIS?
WHO IS BEHIND THE JUNK
MAIL "PRESENT DAY EVENTS?"
There is a very regular world wide junk mail piece called "Present Day
Events" It's all about Jersusalem which doesn't have a name on it. These
are the Christadelphians.
ARE THERE ANY JEWISH SYNAGOGUES? There is a brass plaque on the footpath at
Redeemer Neil St. In 1876 the first Jewish church was built and in 1929 Redeemer
Lutheran took over.
WHICH CHURCHES ARE FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY OR PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED? None as
yet. Some Pastors have challenged children, like at AOG West, St Barts and Uniting
South/ Middle Ridge "Toowoomba Garden Settlement" has challenged patients
who attend church. Friday nights at Shiloh is good for intellectually challenged
adults.
ARE THE AIMISH IN TOOWOOMBA? A resident of Toowoomba reportedly saw at Wilsonton
shops in 2001, a married woman with full black clothing and without buttons,
with clothing covering almost all of the body. The children were dressed similarly.
My friend used to live in America and recognised the clothing. She got invited
to their farm south of Toowoomba and they had a car, electricity, but few mod
cons at all. The husband talked incessantly about his religion and how they
came out of the Anglican church some years ago due to scriptural reasons. He
works in Endeavour supervising mentally challenged people. An American Armish
bishop came to their house in May 2000. They may be holding small meetings in
the future.
WHY DID CHURCH OF CHRIST MOVE THEIR TWO SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES FURTHER APART?
Church of Christ Hume St moved their services 30 mins further apart due to congestion
between their two morning services in Dec 2002. It was 10am and 8.30am and it
got moved to 10am / 8am.
DID THE BAPTISTS LOSE A HUGE AMOUT OF MONEY IN COURT? Kenmore Baptist church
with Ps Ric Benson (Ric hosts 11.30pm Wednesday nights on free to air TV) went
to purchase 5 and 12 hectares of land close to where they are now. However,
the council wanted a "green belt." The church took them to court and
lost. A considerable amount of money was involved past a 6 figure sum. 16 10
02
DO CATHOLIC PRIESTS ONLY GET $8,000 A YEAR? Yes. However, their accomodation,
food and a car is also provided. They also have a chef, alcohol is sometimes
provided too.
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