Who We Are
Hope4 Pakenham is an inspiring church with genuine people who love people and love Jesus. Our Sunday night worship meetings have solid, challenging sermons to empower you to live life to the full, an authentic, simplistic worship experience to refresh your heart, and genuine loving friendships to encourage you.
Who We Are
Hope4 Pakenham is an inspiring church with genuine people who love people and love Jesus. Our Sunday night worship meetings have solid, challenging sermons to empower you to live life to the full, an authentic, simplistic worship experience to refresh your heart, and genuine loving friendships to encourage you.
Our Values
PRAYER: For a life changing relationship with God, prayer is vital. We pray that God would do in us what we ask him to do in the world around us, knowing that we are all works in progress, and that He loves us every step of the way. Of all the wonderful things that Jesus did and said, the one thing His disciples asked Him to teach them was how to pray. We are a praying church.
PEOPLE: We are a church that seeks to reconnect people with the source of hope, Jesus Christ. Knowing Him as He is and experiencing all that He has for us in a lifelong intimate relationship is the only way all people everywhere will find true and lasting hope. God loves people, so we love people.
HOLY SPIRIT: We are a Wesleyan Methodist Church that seeks to be more sensitive to the Person and work of the Holy Spirit and His daily leadership as we live in faithful obedience to Him.
Our Values
PRAYER: For a life changing relationship with God, prayer is vital. We pray that God would do in us what we ask him to do in the world around us, knowing that we are all works in progress, and that He loves us every step of the way. Of all the wonderful things that Jesus did and said, the one thing His disciples asked Him to teach them was how to pray. We are a praying church.
PEOPLE: We are a church that seeks to reconnect people with the source of hope, Jesus Christ. Knowing Him as He is and experiencing all that He has for us in a lifelong intimate relationship is the only way all people everywhere will find true and lasting hope. God loves people, so we love people.
HOLY SPIRIT: We are a Wesleyan Methodist Church that seeks to be more sensitive to the Person and work of the Holy Spirit and His daily leadership as we live in faithful obedience to Him.
Our Vision
Our vision is simple…to see real people getting real with a real God. We love to see people living empowered and victorious lives through authentic and simplistic worship, with inspiring and Bible-based teaching, in the midst of honest and genuine community, with Jesus at the centre.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Wesleyans believe in one God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Saviour of all who put their faith in Him alone for eternal life.
We believe that those who are made new in Christ are called to be holy in character and conduct, and can only live this way by being filled with the Lord’s Spirit.
We believe in the Bible and its sufficiency to establish our faith and conduct.
We believe God wills for people everywhere to know Him and be made new in Christ.
We believe that the purpose of the Church is to worship God in spirit and in truth, and to reach a lost and fallen world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through its worship, witness, and loving deeds.
The following are terms descriptive of who Wesleyans are and why they do what they do. They describe the “soul of the Church”:
BIBLICAL AUTHORITY: The Bible is God’s holy Word. It uniquely and infallibly reveals God’s plan for His people and how to live out that plan, individually and corporately. Beliefs, practices, priorities, and our mission are to be anchored in clear biblical teachings.
CHRISTLIKENESS: Jesus Christ is the defining feature of God’s will and relationship with all humankind. In Christ is found both newness of life and the highest and clearest example for godliness. People made new in Christ find Him to be the source of faith, hope, and love in both the inner life and in our outward actions engaging a world desperate for hope and life.
DISCIPLE-MAKING: Making disciples is a clear mandate from Christ. This requires a strong missional focus on evangelism and training in spiritual growth and holy living. Done effectively, this will produce and promote growth and health in and among the churches.
LOCAL CHURCH CENTRED: The denomination exists to help local congregations grow and multiply, be more healthy, and more authentically reflect God’s plan. Local churches are the most fundamental and strategic points of evangelism and discipleship. The challenge of the denomination is to keep finding the best ways to serve, strengthen, and multiply congregations.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP: Wesleyans respect leadership that is placed over them, while realising that the authority and effectiveness of spiritual leadership is not primarily bestowed, but earned, and is characterised by a loving and willing heart of obedience that serves God and mankind gladly. Wesleyans desire to be leaders in serving.
UNITY IN DIVERSITY: There is intrinsic value in every person. Biblical unity becomes all the more important and beautiful in the light of the wide-ranging differences in personalities, cultures, races, languages, talents, and perspectives. Finding unity and mutual love in Christ eliminates devaluation and deprivation of life to one another.
OUR TEAM
CHURCH LEADERSHIP
Rev. Iain & Sonia McGill
Senior Pastor
Kirsten Hampson
Hope4 Youth
Rose Richardson
Treasurer
Barb Wilson
Secretary
OUR HISTORY?
Hope4 Pakenham Church had its humble beginnings in 2015 as a few believers met in loungerooms for prayer and worship, seeking God for His vision for Pakenham and the surrounding areas of the Cardinia Shire in Melbourne’s expanding South East. We had a collective desire to be a church where people were free to be genuine about their faith and struggles as we journeyed together in community worshipping Jesus and following His ways and words. We began meeting in Outlook Community Centre in 2016 and have since found a spiritual home for our Sunday night worship service in the chapel at Lakeside College, Portobello Road, Pakenham. God has brought real people across our path who are sincere about their journey with God, and who seek to grow in their knowledge and love of Him in their everyday life.
WHAT IS A WESLEYAN?
We are a gathering of local churches and ministries from around Australia serving together under the umbrella of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia. We find our roots dating back to John Wesley who was a key component of 18th Century revivals in England. His desire was to spread the message of Scriptural Holiness around the world. This is our mandate today. From these beginnings came the ‘Holiness Movement’ and at its heart is the message of perfect love, which is to love God with all our heart, with all our mind and with all our strength and our neighbour as our self. (Mark 12:30-31 NIV)
We, the Wesleyan Methodists of Australia, are a part of a wider church that is connected together under the name, the Wesleyan Church. We are now found in over 80 nations. In 2011, worldwide Sunday morning worship attendance was 475,000 persons in more than 5,000 congregations. Worldwide total membership was 368,000.
In 1946, the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was officially formed in Melbourne under the leadership of Kingsley Ridgway. While the initial beginnings were slow, we have now spread across the country with around 95 churches. Our people come from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and communities. While we do celebrate our diversity, we also acknowledge the values that hold us together – such as our love for the word of God, the bible, our commitment to Christlikeness, our passion for disciple-making, and our call to servant leadership.
The message we share is a message we are experiencing everyday.
It is a message of hope, it is the message of love, and it is the message of life.
It is the message of Christ and the Cross.