About Us

The Association of Christian Community Churches in Victoria and Tasmania (CCCVaT) is a movement of like-minded local churches, predominantly of a Christian Brethren heritage, that have united under a common vision and mission, set of beliefs and core values. The movement is driven by the Great Commission of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20), and is committed to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people and to provide a ministry of discipleship for each new believer, that they will become all that God has designed them to be.

CCCVaT’s core objective is to aid and assist local churches to more effectively reach and serve church and un-churched communities, develop ministry capacity and make disciples of Jesus. Through networking, leveraging of resources and fostering a greater sense of belonging, the movement continues to grow into a mutually supportive Kingdom-advancing network of churches that has ever increasing capacity to impact all in our circle of influence with the Good News of Jesus.

Vision
To advance the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Mission
To aid and assist churches grow the Kingdom of God.

CCCVaT serves its churches by offering:

Prayer ministry and support.
Church revitalisation and planting.
Equipping ministries.
Grants to or for:
- Employ university students.
- Pastoral Support.
- Church Activation, Renewal and Equipping.
- Short Term Mission.
- Community Outreach.
Leadership equipping training and networking.
Mediation.
Nominating authority for marriage celebrants.
Child Safe Australia national licencee for all Brethren and approved Churches
Policy and guidelines development and maintenance.
Employer of School Chaplains under the NSCP and CCTI programs.

MEMBERSHIP of the association is open to all Christian Brethren Churches and other Christian Churches as approved by the board and members, that are located in Victoria and Tasmania and agree to the association's 'Distinctives', 'Statement of Faith' and 'Doctrinal Statement'.

These statements can be viewed in the guidelines and policy section in this website, along with the application to join the association.

ADDRESSSES:
STREET - 3 TAMAR STREET, RINGWOOD NORTH VIC 3134
POSTAL - PO BOX 2624 Ringwood North VIC 3134
EMAIL - office@cccvat.com.au
PHONE - 03 9017 3499

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David Wraight

Director of Ministry and Mission

David provides leadership to the movement, developing resources and initiatives that equip and enable local church leaders and communities to advance the Kingdom of God, grow the Church, reach and serve the unchurched and plant new churches. David also devotes time to mentoring and coaching global ministry leaders and assisting mission organisations to navigate change and renewal. Prior to his current role, David served as the International President of Youth for Christ (YFC) and for ten years resided with his wife Jenny in Denver, Colorado. YFC is a global movement that targets unreached and unchurched teenagers. During the time David led YFC, it expanded its reach into 140 nations, connected with over 50 million teenagers, developed a prayer movement involving 235,000 prayer intercessors and grew its staff to 35,000. David is the author of two books: The Next Wave, which describes how the world can be reached through empowering young people; and Kingdom Come, which explores what happens—or what should happen—when God’s Kingdom comes in a person’s life, in the Church and in the world. David and Jenny have three children, four grandchildren and are members of Southern Cross Community Church

Paul Gould

General Manager

Paul is responsible for budgets, church support and grants, compliance, marketing, meetings, polices and guidelines, systems and various other tasks as part of CCCVaT’s mandate to aid and assist its churches grow the Kingdom of God. His past experience includes various general, marketing and merchandise management roles in fast paced automotive and recreational vehicle industries, loyalty programs, retail franchising and the chemical industry. The experience gained in these roles has equipped him to provide the expertise needed to serve and develop these ministries for CCCVaT. Paul is married with four children.

Andrew Hodgson

Emerging Leaders Coordinator

Andy has been a Christian for most of his life and is currently serving at Ringwood Community Church. He is a gifted singer and guitarist and has a passion to develop and deploy the youth and young leaders of our churches in the Kingdom. He is married to Rachel and together they have three children.

Ann Morison

Children, Family, Women & Prayer Ministries Coordinator

Ann has a heart for advancing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, having served in church, schools and radio, using the music she writes, records and sings. She also leads children and women in connect groups and ministries.

Conrad Parsons

Church Planting & Revitalization Manager

Conrad was born in Sydney and grew up in Adelaide and in the Blue Mountains. He became a Christian in 1986 just before entering training as an evangelist. In 1991, he married Wendy in Bathurst. They moved to London in 1996 following the publication of his first book, Understanding Evangelists. In 2001, after launching an international ministry, Conrad visited Vanuatu on a three-week mission. His love of people in the Pacific Islands has continued since that visit. He has three ministry degrees including a Doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and Wendy, and their children, live in Melbourne. Conrad started coaching evangelists in 2001 and now continues to teach evangelists and trains leadership coaches globally. He will be responsible to identify, equip, mobilize, and providing ongoing support for pioneer church planters to plant church-planting churches, as well as catalyzing and facilitating existing churches in the movement to revitalize and plant new congregations and churches with CCCVaT.

Pynqi Gorgonia

Communications & Events Coordinator

Pynqi will be assisting the General Manager in a variety of duties to serve our churches more effectively. She has a wealth of experience, especially in graphic design having worked in a studio in New York and with be conversant with a number of applications of CCCVaT shortly.

Raelene Gould

Accounts Officer

Raelene provides regulatory support and compliance for churches and manages accounting and payroll functions for churches that have subscribed.