Home Groups

What is a Home Group?

Home Groups are a great opportunity to “live” the Christian life, which revolves around community, sharing and learning.  They are one of the keys to developing and strengthening us personally and collectively and are also a great way of getting to know people on a more intimate level. Accordingly, each week we come together to spend time digging deeper into the weekly Sermon by having an in depth discussion on God’s message and how it relates to our lives. As such, Home Groups are ideal for those looking to develop and grow their relationship with God and relationships with others too.

Children

Here at WBC we welcome all children to attend our Sunday Worhsip Service. Or if you prefer, we also have Bapkids, our children’s program for young ones to Year 6, which runs during the Worship Service throughout the school term. During the school hoildays we provide acitivity packs as needed.

While we don’t have a current creche program, we always have a box of toys available for young children.

Peace of Mind – WBC is a child-safe church.  We take our responsibility seriously and as such all of our Bapkids Leaders are trained in child safety and have a working with children Blue Card.

Youth

Youth Whitsundays meets from 6:30pm – 8:30pm Friday nights on a fortnightly basis and uses the facilities at St Martin’s Chapel (St Martin’s Road, Cannonvale). The program is run for any high school age student. Note: Students do not have to be connected to a church family, or even be a local member of the community.

The program varies, but it is a ultimately a social program full of fun games and activities for teens.  More importantly, it is also a relationship building and spiritual program, which provides opportunities for young people to gain peer and adult support, while exploring issues of life, faith and purpose.

Peace of Mind – WBC is a child-safe church.  We take our responsibility seriously and as such all of our Youth Leaders are trained in child safety and have a working with children Blue Card.

Young Adults

We have quite a crowd of young adults in our community, mostly backpackers, but there are also many young adults who are a regular part of Whitsunday Baptist Church and our young adult program.

That being said, our program for young adults is not really a program… it’s more of a network. They get together in an organised fashion, without it being a regular event, sometimes during the week or on weekends to just hang out or participate in a wide range of acitvities in the Whitsunday region and/or further afield.

This network of young adults are our emerging leaders and we want to be intentional in the way we connect with them by offering friendship, development, spiritual growth and opportunities within the church and community at large. As such, WBC is a great place to connect with other young adults and it’s a great place to be a young adult.

Membership

At WBC we encourage participation from anyone. We have a healthy community and we love doing things together.

After being part of our community for a while, you may find you want to get more involved. You may be looking for a greater sense of belonging, or to be able to have a greater say, or maybe you want to be influential by serving in our leadership team(s)?

An important step is membership. The bottom line is, everyone who believes in Jesus, and follows his ways, automatically becomes a member of the church in a universal sense. Locally though, you will need to show your commitment to the local Christian community at WBC. This helps maintain our spiritual and functional integrity, it helps maintain a safe environment for children and the vulnerable, and it also complies with the legal requirements for organisations in Australia.

What are the requirements?

1. Born again believer dependant upon faith in Jesus Christ for your salvation
2. Baptised (as an adult, or infant where that tradition has some form of adult confirmation)
3. Committed to this local church expression known as WBC
4. Agree with the statement of belief contained in our constitution
5. Seeking to live a holy & righteous life

Would you like to become a member? If your interested in exploring this option there are three pathways:

1. You can speak to our Senior Pastor – call our church office or contact us via email.
2. You can print off a membership application form here and submit it.
3. You can take your time and explore WBC a little bit more by reading our constitution; it will provide some information on what we believe and how we are governed.