Mission Partners

FIEC

The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) is a fellowship of churches and pastors across Australia. These churches are committed to praying for one another and continuing to promote planting of evangelical churches throughout Australia. Their pastors seek to provide support and encouragement to one another. The FIEC began in 2002 when a small group of evangelical pastors had the simple aim of encouraging one another to proclaim Christ and plant more churches across Australia. In 2018, there are over 30 member churches across Australia [of which Wagga Wagga Evangelical Church is one]. The FIEC is aiming, with God’s help, to plant 100 churches across Australia during the next 15 years.

For more information go to http://www.fiec.org.au/

CHURCH PLANTING

Scott and Wendy Mackenzie moved to Singleton in 2009 to lead a church plant. They have been sharing Jesus with the locals as well as with the transient mining population, seeking to grow people in Christ. Wagga Wagga Evangelical partners in this ministry, by praying for and providing money to the Church. Peter Blanch is a part of their Board of Reference. You can find out more about Singleton Evangelical church here: http://www.singletonchurch.org

OCA

The vision of the Overseas Council of Australia is to provide churches in the developing world with the leadership they need. Strategically, OCA focuses on supporting theological colleges in the developing world, to train a steady supply of competent leaders to ensure the church matures in line with the Word of God in a way that is sensitive to the local context.

At Wagga Evangelical church we have a wonderful opportunity to partner with the church in the developing world by assisting with the training of leaders. Currently we support a number of students at the Madras Theological College in India.

AFES STUDENT MINISTRY WAGGA WAGGA

Universities in Australia are full of students who are poised to make life-changing decisions about what they believe and where they are heading. AFES [Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students] works in this God-given window of opportunity to reach students for Christ.

Wagga Wagga Evangelical partners in this ministry locally with the student group on campus at Charles Sturt University, by praying for and giving money to the AFES staff workers as well as to the Christian Student Body “Christian Fellowship”.

SCRIPTURE TEACHING WAGGA

Wagga Wagga Evangelical Church helps resource Special Religious Education (SRE) in our local area. SRE gives students in NSW a safe place to explore and discover the Bible’s answers to the big questions of life. As a partner church locally we provide volunteers to teach in local schools and contribute financially to the ministry as a whole.

PIONEERS AUSTRALIA 

Cameron and Lara Blair both became christians while they were studying at university in the early 1990’s.  They‘ve long desired to serve God working amongst unreached people groups. WWEC partners with the Blairs to do this in South Western Sydney amongst refugees and new migrants through the Christian organisation Pioneers.

Cameron works on campus in South Western Sydney with AFES 3 days a week with a focus on students from migrant families as well as international students. The rest of the week he works with the Pioneers team seeking in particular to reach young adults from new migrant and refugee families. 

Lara is excited to be spending a day a week on campus with Cameron meeting with female students and a day working as a counsellor to gain more experience.  For the rest of the week she will be helping Pioneers set up a Christian counselling centre for new migrants and refugees and possibly starting up a Kids club at the church partnering with the Pioneers team to reach local migrant families with the gospel of Christ.

Their hope is that the people they meet will also find ‘true life’ in Jesus as they reach out to share God’s love to the nations coming to Australia’s shores.  You can find out more about the Blairs at: http://blairs.id.au/author/cameronfeva-org/

LOCAL LEADERS INTERNATIONAL

Local Leaders International (formally Overseas Council of Australia (OCA)) is to provide churches in the developing world with the leadership they need. Strategically, LLI focuses on supporting theological colleges in the developing world, to train a steady supply of competent leaders to ensure the church matures in line with the Word of God in a way that is sensitive to the local context.

MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP (MAF) 

Jake & Liz Newth (previously members of WWEC), moved up to Arnhem Land to serve with the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in 2021.  MAF has been serving isolated people by using aircraft to bring in the essentials of life as well as medical care, emergency food, and Christian hope. Their purpose is to deliver practical and spiritual care to people in places of deepest human need. Jake works for MAF in aircraft maintenance. At the end of 2023 the Newth family moved to the town of Mareeba, North Queensland, to continue their work with MAF.