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What area of impact are you passionate about?

Operational impact

Providing strong governance and effective operational support

You’re passionate about ensuring organisations run smoothly and effectively by setting up systems and strategies that support their goals. This area lets you make a significant impact by improving how organisations operate, fostering growth, and ensuring resources are used efficiently to achieve God’s mission.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Governance – church board, board internship, subcommittees (policy, finance)
  • Operations – office admin, event admin, kitchen, building, policy, IT support, facilities support, land/building project committee
  • Finances – finance support, stewardship committee to create a financial discipleship culture
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Governance – governing board of other organisations
  • Finances – using financial skills to help vulnerable individuals, missionaries etc.
  • Together For Clayton and Beyond – operational and administrative support for our local network of churches

Gathered church impact

Seeing the gathered church grow, flourish and be mobilised for God’s kingdom

You are passionate about the body of Christ. You believe the church is the hope for the world. You aspire to see God’s people gather to grow in their faith, be empowered to serve and collectively contribute to God’s kingdom work. You long to see God’s people gather around Jesus and believe that we experience and reveal Jesus better together than alone.

You see the importance of strengthening the church’s unity, influence, and effectiveness in spreading God’s love and transforming lives. When the gathered church thrives, it will engage in God’s mission and make a lasting difference in the world.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Sunday Services – worship, audiovisual, safety and security, preaching, design, stage managers, musicians (e.g. drummers), communion leaders, service leaders, coffee team
  • Chapel service – sound and media operator
  • Creative Comms – social media, website, video production
  • Next Generations Ministry – creche, kids church, youth, campus, young adults
  • Life group leadership
  • Gathering Ministry – Women, Men, 55 plus ministry
  • Pastoral Care – Elderly, Sick
  • Marriage – Pre-marriage, Marriage
  • Prayer/Prophetic Ministry
  • Connect Team
  • New believers – mentors
  • ALPHA – facilitators
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Cafe Care Ministry – supporting vulnerable people both spiritually and practically
  • Together For Clayton and Beyond – prayer and church plant initiatives
  • Social media – digital discipleship
  • External organisations e.g. Churches of Christ denomination, Focus on the Family, Missions Australia, Wealth with Purpose

Everyday impact

Representing Jesus in our everyday moments

You want to live out your faith genuinely in your daily life without adding extra tasks. It’s about integrating spiritual beliefs into your routine, turning everyday moments into meaningful opportunities to show Christ’s love and values to others.

By focusing on everyday interactions, challenges, and opportunities, you feel you can genuinely reflect Christ’s love, compassion, and values to those around you, fostering a deeper connection with both their community and their faith.

This passion area encourages a lifestyle where your faith impacts your daily interactions, fostering deeper connections in your community and growing in your spiritual journey beyond just Sundays.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Mother’s group
  • Small business
  • Parenting / Family
  • Workplace ministry
  • Not for profit organisations
  • Playgroup
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Christian singles e.g. Space Between network (Joelle Kabamba)
  • Faith and work e.g. City Bible Forum
  • Families and marriage e.g. Focus on the Family

Local impact

Walking alongside stakeholders to transform Clayton and beyond

You are passionate about making a positive impact in the Clayton community by engaging with local leaders and residents to foster improvement in our neighbourhood and lead others to discover Jesus.

This passion area allows you to build relationships, promote teamwork, and address community issues like social justice and inclusivity, showcasing servant leadership and inspiring lasting contributions that benefit the entire community.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Love Loud You Fit
  • Love Loud Meals – meal coordinator, delivery drivers
  • Love Loud Sow A Seed
  • Love Loud Love Thy Neighbour
  • Encounter English Learning – tutors or teachers
  • Playgroup – helpers
  • Evangelism
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Together for Clayton and Beyond – evangelism network
  • Neighbourhood Houses – Dixon, Nottinghill House
  • Monash Council – interest in serving the Clayton community with your skills

Global impact

Reaching the unreached people groups

You are passionate to make a global impact for God’s kingdom especially among the unreached people groups. You aspire to see the gospel spread to the ends of the earth, especially individuals and communities who have not yet heard about Jesus, and providing them with hope, love and spiritual guidance.

This passion area lets you make a vital impact by spreading Christ’s message globally, bridging cultural divides, and reaching lives untouched by the Gospel, all while answering a call to share God’s love universally and promote unity through faith.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Global committee
  • Pastoral Care for Global Workers
  • Training & Mobilising
  • Short Term Mission (STM)
  • Global worker among unreached people groups
  • Global unreached diaspora workers
  • Financial support/advice for global workers
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Other missions organisations – Compassion Australia, Missions Australia, World Vision, Church Missionary Society

Pioneering impact

Pioneering new frontiers and spheres for God’s kingdom

You’re eager to pioneer fresh ways to spread God’s kingdom, making an impact in various industries and reaching those unfamiliar with the Gospel. This passion involves exploring new paths in ministry, work, innovation, and outreach to bring the Gospel’s transformative impact to uncharted territories.

You aspire to bring bold faith, creativity, and vision to church and community endeavours, innovating to share God’s love and truth in ways that inspire change across different sectors.

Serving Opportunities: In Clayton Church
  • Church planting or church planting team
  • Mental Health workers group
  • Pioneering disciple-making movements in your industry
Serving Opportunities: Outside Clayton Church
  • Together For Clayton – passion to see church planting among our network of churches in Clayton
  • Education Sector – working with Faith Values Organisation to bring the Christian worldview into public schools

Together, we can make a real difference and transform Clayton and beyond with the love of Jesus.