{"id":28,"date":"2012-08-18T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:28:40","slug":"our-ministries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/?page_id=28","title":{"rendered":"Our Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpages%2F28&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print-Friendly Version<\/span><\/a><\/div><ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Worship<\/strong><\/span> commences every Sunday at 9:45 am &#8211; we sing songs of praise to God and exhortation to each other, we offer prayers to God in Jesus\u2019 name, we read from the Bible and are taught how to live in harmony with God and others, we remember Jesus\u2019 sacrifice in taking the Lord\u2019s Supper and we voluntarily contribute to the Lord\u2019s work in this area.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bible Classes<\/strong><\/span> are held \u00a0each Sunday morning (except during school holidays)\u00a0 and Wednesday night &#8211; we study the scriptures together to get a better understanding of God\u2019s will for us. Currently these meetings are held on-line via Zoom.\u00a0 \u00a0 Children\u2019s classes are also held on Sundays.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bible Knowledge<\/strong><\/span> courses are offered through the mail or on-line.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>We support financially\u00a0 the ministry of Vani Igo, preacher <\/b>based at the Cairns Church of Christ.\u00a0 He regularly travels to Papua New Guinea (his birth place)\u00a0 and Fiji to conduct missionary work teaching and converting people to Jesus.\u00a0 He also teaches at other congregations of the church in Northern Queensland<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We support 3 Charity groups that are professionally set up to provide food for those who are in need.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Advertising<\/strong><\/span> in various forms are used to interest others in knowing more about Jesus and pursuing a relationship with God built solely on God\u2019s will for us as revealed in the Bible.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Youtube<\/span> <\/strong>&#8211; Sermons are uploaded to this website each week for you to view at times suitable to you<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Zoom<\/span> <\/strong>&#8211; Some of our studies are conducted by video conferencing<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>www.biblebytes.org.au<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0is an internet based outreach program designed to answer common questions that might be asked concerning Bible matters and presented in a brief \u201ceasy-2-read\u201d format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Worship commences every Sunday at 9:45 am &#8211; we sing songs of praise to God and exhortation to each other, we offer prayers to God in Jesus\u2019 name, we read from the Bible and are taught how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/?page_id=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Patnjy-s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19680,"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchofchristbankstown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}