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Christ
Evangelical Centre of Australia (CECA) began as a Cantonese speaking
church in Carlingford in 2001. After two years God grew our church and
we moved into our present site at 8/172 Rowe St, Eastwood, which is the
old Eastwood Library, off Eastwood Plaza.
Once
we moved to Eastwood, the English ministry began with a youth service
and fellowship time. The English youth group, aka H2O+, meets evey
Friday from 7 pm to 9 pm.
On
29th October, 2006, the Adult English service commenced at Eastwood in
the old RSL hall. We have a children’s program for under 12s as well as
small home group meetings weekly. In August 2007 we moved to the
Macquarie Community Centre, but God kept us growing so now we are back
in Eastwood. Now with the redevelopment of Eastwood Centre soon to
start we have moved again to the Epping Uniting Church Building at 40
Oxford St Epping.
CECA
is a Bible based church, committed to the message of Jesus Christ
coming to save humanity and offering an eternally fulfilled life with
God. We believe that Jesus is God’s only begotten Son, that he died for
the forgiveness of sins, rose to life on the third day after his death,
and will return to judge the world and restore creation in justice,
wholeness and love. People will be excluded from this forgiveness and
restoration because we have rejected Jesus Christ as the only God and
chosen to ignore him in the way we live. We believe in the reality of
eternal punishment for those so excluded.
But
the good news is that forgiveness, restoration and wholeness is
available to everyone who chooses to genuinely apologise to God, stop
ignoring him and trust that he really does know the best way for each
of us to live individually and together.
Because
who we are as a community we believe that we are called to bring this message to Asian Australians
to help them progress in their wholeness with God, with other people
and with God’s creation.
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