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Archive for April, 2007

To tithe or not to tithe!!!

Posted by Bessie on April 12th, 2007

This is often an issue for people who have been programmed in traditional church and then move to home church.  There are three ways we can come at this -
1.  Some home churches ‘reinvent the wheeel’ of traditional church when they move into a home church.  They might as well put a spire on the house!  And so […]

Nanny position

Posted by Bessie on April 11th, 2007

Julie  voetberg has emailed OIKOS Australia with these comments:“Greetings!  We are part of a house church here in Washington State(25 years), and that is how we found you.  We have a daughter, the second born of 7 and home-schooled, that would like to find a nanny position in Australia/New Zealand/Tasmania and that is why we […]

From Wolfgang Simson - Re Barna and Australia…..

Posted by Bessie on April 11th, 2007

God is doing a new thing in the United States, and from the beginnings of
the housechurch movement that I try to track there since about AD 2000, I
would reckon about 40-50.000 housegroups (that may call themselves
homechurches)

Home Church and Easter

Posted by Bessie on April 11th, 2007

If your home church celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus last weekend, we would love to hear about it.

The Lord is risen!…….

Posted by Bessie on April 8th, 2007

He is risen indeed!  Hallelujah!

Please pray for……

Posted by Bessie on April 2nd, 2007

Des and Meredith Stewart and Quirindi Christian Fellowship (home church).  Des is a member of the OIKOS Team.  His mother, Elizabeth Stewart died last Wednesday aged 92.  She was ‘Mum’ in the home church.  A beautiful lady who has walked with the Lord all her life.  I will be officiating at the funeral in Quirindi […]