Home Groups

What is a Home Group?

A Home Group is a small group of people who are connected with our church and most get together weekly. They are a great way of getting to know people and sharing life in a more intimate way than in a bigger crowd. These are where most real friendships grow.

What do we do at Home Group?

The key features of our Home Groups are time, prayer, food and the Bible.

• It’s nothing complex but if you’re going to have decent relationships with people, you’ve got to spend TIME together.
• We also PRAY together. Praying is what we do when we want to talk with God. He hears our thoughts, hearts and words and responds to us. It makes life so much more purposeful.
• Everyone enjoys some FOOD in their day too. When our Home Groups get together we eat food. It’s a nice way to just hang out and enjoy the company of others.
• The significance of the BIBLE is that it is our reference book, our guide. It gives so much perspective to every part of our daily life. Reading the Bible is really stimulating and challenges our thinking in so many ways.

Home Groups are a safe place to explore and grow in relationships and understanding.

Let us know if you would like to join, host or lead a Home Group.

Children

Children are a normal part of life at Whitsunday Baptist Church. We love our kids! It’s okay if they make noise and move around during the service.

Each Sunday during school term, part way through our morning service primary school aged children can go out to our fun BapKids program.  If you need more information about it, you can ask one of our team!

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

Our teens generally stay with the adults, but they are welcome to help out with BapKids if they would rather.

Peace of Mind – WBC is a child-safe church.  We take our responsibility to keep kids safe seriously.  We also take having fun seriously.  Our key leaders are trained in child safety and mandatory reporting.  Everyone who works with children is required to have a “Blue Card”.

Youth

We have a youth group that meets weekly during the school term. It is called Youth Whitsundays!

Youth meets from 6pm-8:30pm Friday nights and use 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 with a church-going family, or even live in the area.

It is an exciting and safe weekly program for Grades 7-12. The program varies from week to week, but it is a social program, with lots of fun stuff going on.  It is also a relationship building program that provides opportunities for young people to gain peer & adult support. It is also a spiritual program as we give young people an opportunity to explore issues of life, faith & purpose. 

Peace of Mind – WBC is a child-safe church.  We take our responsibility seriously to keep children and young people safe.  We also take having fun seriously.  Our key leaders are trained in child safety and mandatory reporting.  Everyone who works with children and young people in our church is required to have a “Blue Card”.

Young Adults

We have quite a crowd of young adults in our community. In fact, Airlie Beach area is loaded with them, mostly backpackers. There are many young adults who are a regular part of Whitsunday Baptist Church.

Our program for young adults is not really a program… it’s more of a network. We get together in an organised fashion without it being a regular event. Some of our crew get together during the week, or on the weekends, and often go out to a range of great spots between Mackay & Townsville.

Our young adults are emerging leaders and we want to be intentional in the way we connect with them. It is our desire to offer friendship, development, spiritual growth and opportunities to them. 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.