Greeting from Sydney and our annual International Day, which is always a lot of fun with food, national costumes and Dean “Machine” Lam from China preaching alongside, Kavindu who is from Sri Lanka, as well as Mason from Samoa (America). Dean’s first service was only last year at our very first International Day, little did he know then that despite not believing in God, he would be preaching about how to believe in God at the next one. This was all on the back of seeing Chidera being baptized the previous week, who is Australian from Nigerian descent. 
As if this was not enough fun for one day, we had our first engagement as a church with Lennox Tweneboa setting out a treasure hunt around Sydney for his girlfriend Kiera Walker, only to end up at the steps of the Opera House to see a giant box wrapped as a present, which Lennox was hiding in. Once she opened the present Lennox got down on one knee to propose. Then a crowd of 100 friends and family came around from behind the Opera House to surprise and congratulate the happy couple. 
We are also very excited to announce the plan to plant the Auckland International Christian Church in New Zealand in January 2017 with Mason and Nathalie Fetelika leading the team. We have the incredible Clagues here in Sydney, Ian is originally from New Zealand and used to be in the ministry and lead the church in the city of Christchurch in our former movement. We would like to encourage all nationals and anyone interested in being part of the mission team to contact Mason by email at semigalio42@yahoo.com as soon as possible to make plans to move to Sydney to build the team.
