“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, & you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem & in all Judea and Samaria, & to the ends of the earth.”
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Our local church family are provided with regular opportunities for growth, training and equipping. From time to time we have 'church together' where all our connect groups meet together at the church for training and fellowship. Our leadership meet for training and mentoring monthly. We run various other courses from time to time such as Loving Your Kids on Purpose, The Alpha course and others. Rudy runs training and mentoring times at regular intervals on a variety of leadership subjects including preaching and Homiletics. New families can also do our welcome course to understand our values and DNA.
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We love the church in the city and have been working together with the City Wide church for over 25 years. Including Citywide leadership training times, combined Youth events. We've also run Citywide seminars and conferences such as the Leadership training, Marriage events and other Saturday morning seminars and training times.
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We enjoy relationship with a number of NCMI churches across the region and interstate, joining with them for Leadership training times (LTT). We have hosted Equip times at Liberty, taken teams to help run equips/LTTs in other areas and attend Equips they host.
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Annually, we host Leadership training times (LTT) for other Pastors and Youth in Medan Indonesia with our network of over 300 relating churches and across smaller territories of North Sumatra we host Geographical training times. We regularly take teams to New Zealand and are believing for new nations to open up to us post Covid restrictions.
"Vision is a future orientation, an art of seeing things invisible".
“Put simply, we want to reach our Neighbours and the Nations with the Good news of Jesus.”
— Rudy Furlong
Our vision at Liberty is achievable through a band of brothers; a family of believers who, through the values of friendship & partnership, enjoy similar values and journey together in seeing our vision accomplished.
“We see...”
- "People who know Jesus and make Him Known."
- We see a vibrant church that embraces organic life over organisational life. It requires a flexible church 'wine skin' (attitude). (Matt 9: 16-17)
- We see a vibrant church that opens its doors to the community in practical ways, a church that desires to be a healing community where people are loved, accepted and forgiven. (James 2:14-18)
- We see a vibrant church that loves our city and the wider church community (Matt 9: 35-38 & John 17: 20-22)
- We see a vibrant church that models a kingdom culture - the majority serving the minority, (1 Thess 1: 1-10 & Eph 4:16)
- We see a vibrant church that trains, equips and empowers believers to be all that God has designed for them. (Eph 4:11-16 & 2 Timothy 2: 2)
- We see a vibrant church that reaches the nations and disciples them as Jesus commanded. (Matt 28: 19-20)
To know Jesus and Make Him known.
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Creating a Spiritual Home for believers Adding and discipling New believers
Releasing Leaders
Planting Churches or satellite congregations
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Combined Worship Services
Outreach to the City
Build relationship with Ministers
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Leadership Training Times
Mentoring Relationships
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International Ministry Teams
Conferences & Resources Street out reach Ministry to Orphans and Widows, Drug rehabilitation centre
Discipling a Nation
Annual Blue Lake Carols - Over 75 years in the city.
The Blue Lake Carols is an annual Christmas tradition in Mount Gambier.
Organised by the Mount Gambier & District Ministers Association, this one-night-only event invites everyone to come and witness a magical night of festive Christmas carolling. This beloved community event which is co-ordinated and grown under the leadership of the Mount Gambier Minister’s association has been hailed as one of the best community events in the region. Each year, local artists share their talents singing favourite Christmas songs, every year the name of Jesus is lift over the city and the gospel is boldly shared. From humble beginning in the Cave Gardens +75 years ago the event has grown to +8000 people attending at the Rail lands in 2019. With the impact of Covid19 restrictions, the Blue Lake Carols team ably lead at this time by Rudy and with many of our Liberty family supporting, pivoted to an online format. In 2021 the event was broadcast Live via Youtube, Lime FM in Mount Gambier and Life FM in Adelaide. The event continue sto Live stream on Youtube and on Lime FM.
This video show the presentation of the Community Event Award at the 2022 Australia Day Awards.
Rudy Furlough receiving the 2022 Australia Day Community Event of the Year Award for the Blue Lake Carols .