Tina Waldrom speaks with Graham Sercombe, a well-known Aussie evangelist who is Adopting Shopping Centres 4 Jesus. Graham has been working in the field of evangelism for many decades and is convinced that shopping centres are a key space to reach secular Australian for Jesus. He spearheads Life Bridge Community Chaplaincy and is the community pastor at Wynnum Baptist Church in Queensland.
Graham’s passion is to see the church bring salt and light to the world outside the walls of the church building. He loves to gather for worship with Christians, but believes that the church is to be scattered throughout the week. ‘Being’ the church in local communities is his passion. For the past few years, Graham has been present in a number of shopping centres and is seeing a remarkable work of Christ take place. His approach to urban mission, so to speak, has been largely informed by the training from Sports Chaplaincy Australia and an online course from Urban Revs.
The stories that Graham tells are extraordinary. Situated in shopping centres, Graham and his team come across people every week and form relationships that would otherwise never happen. People, over time, feel safe and comfortable to talk to Graham and his team of shopping centre chaplains. Gospel seeds and hope are encountering the lives of everyday Aussie each week, it’s a wonderful story.
In this podcast episode, you will discover…
- How Shopping Centres can be the go-to place for evangelism.
- How everyday believers can be a part of shopping centre mission.
- The remarkable difference that being ‘present’ in a community can make.
- How God calls Graham to be an evangelist and the impact of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Australia.
- The need for the church to go where people are during the week.
- How to talk in everyday language about faith and the gospel.
- Ideas to talk about heaven and eternal destiny with Aussies.
- The place of process and partnering with what God is doing in a community.
- How to approach a shopping centre and ideas to become involved.
- Stories of effective outreach in shopping centres and lessons learnt from them.
Watch the short video with Graham and Tina below.
Further Resources:
In the podcast, Graham refers to an online course, that helped him set up the work he now does. Here is the link to that course – click HERE.
To upskill in the area of having faith conversations with people in everyday spaces, check out the online course, On Mission with God @Home – How to Share your Faith Naturally in Conversations.
Other Podcast Episodes Linked to this Episode:
I Left the Church to Be The Church with Cam Butler
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