engage

2010 - Working for Good
These talks will be available to download by the 1st September, 2010.

Our speakers are Tim Blencowe & Steve Timmis.

Tim has been around for 36 years: 12 overseas, 8 in lectures and 14 in full time work. Tim & Susan and their three children are part of Macquarie Baptist Church, in connection with Macquarie University & Morling College. Tim is a member of the engage team and is committed to seeing young workers realise their significance in the mission of Jesus.

Steve has been married to Janet for 30 years and they live in Sheffield. They have four children and three grandchildren. Steve is the Director for Acts 29 Western Europe. He also directs The Porterbrook Network - a training initiative aimed at equipping the church for mission and church planting. Steve is an elder in The Crowded House - an international church planting network. With Tim Chester he co-authored the book Total Church.

2009 - A Faith that Works
Our speakers are Matt Chandler and William Taylor

Matt Chandler comes to Engage all the way from the States. He serves as Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. Matt is involved in Church planting efforts both locally and internationally through The Village and various strategic partnerships.

William Taylor was brought up on a Farm in the West Country of England. He studied geography at Cambridge University and served in the British Army as an officer from 1983-88 before studying theology. He currently works at St Helen's Church, Bishopgate, in the City of London, reaching city workers with the gospel of Jesus.

2008 - So, is this it?
You've got the job you wanted, but you're still restless.

You're earning good money, but you're not satisfied.

You know the Bible has answers, but you've still got doubts.

So, is this it?

Where is the joy we're all meant to have? Where's the contentment? Get some answers at engage.

It's a new conference aimed at bridging the gap between Christianity and working life.

Burn Your Plastic Jesus
kcc has a passion to transform our nation by confronting people, Christians and non-Christians alike, with the lordship of Jesus Christ through the powerful preaching of the Bible.

As an interdenominational ministry, kcc has been encouraging Christians through Bible preaching conventions in Katoomba for over 100 years.

For many people, although the gospel of God was once gratefully received, Jesus has since moved from being the person at the centre of our lives, to being simply something that conveniently fits around us. This is a “plastic Jesus”: a Jesus who is accommodating and soft and not at all demanding – and not at all real. Instead, the Jesus we meet in the New Testament is challenging and tough and confronting, and He calls people – you and me – to take up our cross and follow Him.

kcc is delighted that Mark Driscoll has agreed to join us tonight. Mark is the Teaching Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, a church that he founded just over 10 years ago with a dozen people.

Today, Mars Hill has 8000 people attend church services each week. Mark is a gifted author, preacher and teacher and we are blessed to have him join us for this special evening. Mark is going to challenge us to get rid of the plastic Jesus, and instead engage with the real and powerful Jesus of the New Testament.

Again, let me thank you for joining us tonight. Our prayer is that you would come to know – or even rediscover – the true and powerful Jesus who died to save us. To Him be the glory!

2007 - Come up for Air
The ENGAGE 2007 conference was the first ever KCC event especially for workers and it was a sell out.

It was created to help bridge the gap between church life and work life. And according to the workers who came, ENGAGE delivered! People left ENGAGE refreshed and inspired to love God and serve him in every part of their life - especially their work.

Both speakers - Chris Chia from Adam Road Presbyterian, Singapore and Justin Moffatt from Christchurch, New York - spoke powerfully from God's Word of the highs and lows of living out our faith in Christ in the workplace.