Perth All Nations Church Becomes South Sudanese Seventh-day Adventist Church
Our church plant journey to a fully-fledged local church, inspires, honours God, and connects with people.
Christian refugees in the Western world often form their own ethnic churches—whether in Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) congregations or Sunday-keeping churches—for several interconnected reasons, both spiritual and cultural. This is not unique to Adventism; it's common across many denominations. Some of these factors include language and communication, cultural familiarity and belonging, shared trauma and healing.
Between 2008 and 2017, a small group of us, mainly Dinka and Nuer speaking individuals from South Sudan and Ethiopia, gathered in a living room and rented community halls with the help of our pioneer church planters Pr. John Horvath, Gordon Ayom and Gatkek Badeng with nothing more than a Bible, a burden, and a vision to plant a church that would bring healing, truth, and transformation to our community.
We thank God for members who sacrifices a lot behind the scenes from from designing the photo View, quitting their fulltime permanent job, availing their homes for accommodation, getting us a new uniform, cooking and offering their resources to keep us together.
The Sabbath worship that doubled as an official church organization was conducted by the WAC President and the Executive Secretary on 07 June 25 that was highly attended by about 200 peoples from the invited representatives from Springvale South Sudanese church in Melbourne, the sister churches, communities, ADRA and individuals around Perth at our current meeting place at Ellenbrook Christian College Gymnasium at 5 Santona Blvd, Ellenbrook 6069. Praise be to God and keep this newborn baby church in your prayers.
