{"id":221,"date":"2017-08-04T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:16:06","slug":"grow-conference-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"GROW Conference 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church members, Chris Simons and John Weeks, of the Ferntree Gully Seventh-day Adventist Church, attended the GROW Conference \u2013 For Elders and Local Church Leaders, on July 28-30, 2017, at Howqua, Victoria. The conference was organised by the Victoria Conference, Ministerial Association Department..<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker was Dr Emilio Abdala, who is the Director for Evangelism and Global Mission for the Central Brazil Union. Across the weekend Emilio Abdala presented the following topics :<\/p>\n<p>. Our Purpose &#8211; Mission of the Church<br \/>\n. Friendship Evangelism<br \/>\n. How to Evangelise Secular People<br \/>\n. Church Planting in a Secular, pluralistic Society<br \/>\n. Ministries in a Highly Secular Environment.<\/p>\n<p>There were 3 workshops presented :<br \/>\n. &#8216;Joining God in His Work &#8211; the Life-giving Principles of NCD (Natural Church Development)&#8217;<br \/>\n. &#8216;Why Youth Matter&#8217;<br \/>\n. &#8216;Maximising Ministry Effectiveness Through Technology&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The GROW Conference was attended by 140 participants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170729-John-Weeks-Dr-Emilio-Abdala-and-Rose-Hamulczyk-GROW-Conference-2017-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170729-John-Weeks-Dr-Emilio-Abdala-and-Rose-Hamulczyk-GROW-Conference-2017-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170729-John-Weeks-Dr-Emilio-Abdala-and-Rose-Hamulczyk-GROW-Conference-2017-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170729-John-Weeks-Dr-Emilio-Abdala-and-Rose-Hamulczyk-GROW-Conference-2017.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church members, Chris Simons and John Weeks, of the Ferntree Gully Seventh-day Adventist Church, attended the GROW Conference \u2013 For Elders and Local Church Leaders, on July 28-30, 2017, at Howqua, Victoria. The conference was organised by the Victoria Conference, Ministerial Association Department.. The keynote speaker was Dr Emilio Abdala, who is the Director for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}