Church Army Australia

Church ArmyAustralia

Australia is a sunburnt country, a land of drought and flooding rains. It is an iconic description, not only of our landscape but our soulscape too.

As I travel around our nation, I see too many bone-dry neighbourhoods where the local Christian community dried up and cleared out long ago. Our nation needs water, especially the kind of abundant and life-giving water that Jesus promised (John 4.14-15). Church Army Australia is committed to bringing Jesus’ water to our dry and sunburnt land.

Local mission is the business of Church Army Australia. We are therefore an organisation dedicated to raising up a new generation of leaders for local mission in parched neighbourhoods. We train and support local people to work in places where the conventional church doesn’t. We are developing a new generation of leaders who go out with an offer, not an invitation, who say we’ll come to you and stay and if you want, help to start a church in a way that suits you, in your style, not ours. We call these places fresh expressions of church and they’re for folks who don’t and would never belong to an existing church.

Church Army is in the business of local mission so that all may drink and never be thirsty again.

You can find out about our leadership development activities around Australia through this website. All the news and information, prayer points and stories of hope are here too. Jump in, drink up – the water’s great.

In his grip and grace,

Tim Scheuer

What does L’Abri, Iona, Taizé and Kihilla have in common? They are all intentional Christian communities where God’s word is heard, healing is found and learning happens.

Although Kihilla may not be in the same league, a strong commitment to community has taken root.

‘Community’ is a buzz word that’s regained currency, as a new generation yearns for a spiritual life beyond Sunday worship, one that’s integrated with work and connected with others.

Kihilla finds itself in community by being dedicated to the kind of holistic local mission practiced by Jesus (Matt 4.23f). He combined proclamation, healing and teaching so that people experienced God’s Kingdom directly.

“Too often these aspects get spun off as different ministries,” says Tim Scheuer, the National Director and interim Lawson leader, “but at Kihilla, we’re putting them back together.”