With their church building now out of action, Annandale Community Church are running five Introducing God courses in members’ lounge rooms after their Start the Ultimate Relationship mission week.

Annandale and Naremburn-Cammeray Anglican Church – both recipients of grants through the April appropriation of $20 million from the Diocesan Endowment – carried out their missions days before major building work began on their church properties.

In fact, Annandale’s rector, the Rev Dominic Steele says the bulldozers moved in on both parish properties on the same day.

As over 20 people took a whole week off work for Annandale’s mission, Mr Steele says the pending temporary move to Annandale Neighbourhood Centre gave the week a different focus.

“Our focus was less on holding events in our building… and more on connecting and building a relationship with people and bringing them into the Introducing God course,” he says.

“Next year when we open our building, we’ll probably do the exact opposite.”

Meanwhile a team of 42 – not including staff – took one or more days off work to help out with Start the Ultimate Relationship at Naremburn-Cammeray Anglican Church, and assistant minister, the Rev Nigel Fortescue says the week was “beyond what we’d hoped for”.

The parish is currently following up over 50 people, who are both contacts from doorknocking and visitors who came along to events.

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Originally published on SydneyAnglicans.net by Natasha Percy on 20 August 2008.