About Us
The church on the hill exists to glorify God by loving and serving him.
What Is Our Mission?
Our church exists for one reason, and one reason alone—to glorify God. The missiologist, John Ewart, says to church leaders, “Our ultimate Mission must be to bring glory to God, not to build our own church or kingdom… The members in your church must truly understand it and know what it means and looks like in their daily lives” (Ewart, A New Normal, 25).
Our mission statement reminds us why we walk into the building. It reminds us why we exist outside the church building. The church on the hill exists to glorify God.
VISION
Our vision statement is based on Titus 1:1.
Vision Statement: “Enabling faith (sharing our faith), knowing the truth (learning the gospel), pursuing godliness (growing to become more like Jesus).”
The vision of this church is to deliberately, intentionally, and carefully cultivate hearts and actions that brings God glory. We need to do something, and that’s listen to and obey the words of Scripture. The church on the hill is a community who prompts its members to live in a way that glorifies God. The Lord calls us to be holy, so make it is our business to grow in holiness.
VALUES
Our values are the distinctives of our church that matter to us:
- The fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-26)
- Biblical pathways for dealing with conflict
- The importance of belonging to a small group
- Supporting our preschool as a mission of this church
- Supporting missionaries in Australia and overseas.
Meet Mark
Mark has been in pastoral ministry for thirty years, having spent the last eight years in Tamworth. He is married to Janette and they have three grown up sons. Mark loves to see churches grow in health and vitality as members are discipled as followers of Jesus.
Mark enjoys soccer and is an avid supporter of the Western Sydney Wanderers… just don’t ask him how the team has gone over the last few years. Brought up on the northern beaches of Sydney, Mark was a civil engineer for ten years before God called him and Janette into pastoral ministry. Mark is currently completing his online doctoral dissertation on church health and revitalisation at Liberty University Lynchburg, Virginia.