Ballina Salvos call on Carindale to help celebrate 125th birthday
Ballina Salvos call on Carindale to help celebrate 125th birthday
24 August 2017
The Carindale Timbrels performed with the band at a local Bunnings during the Creative Team's visit to Ballina earlier this month.
Ballina Salvation Army’s 125th anniversary celebrations this year have climaxed with an inspiring visit from the Carindale Corps’ Creative Ministries Team over the weekend of 12-13 August.
The team from Carindale included the corps band, choir (Harmony in Song), timbrels, a music team and a dance group.
Ballina Corps Officer, Lieutenant Wes Bust, encouraged the Carindale team on arrival by saying they were “not celebrating a building, or a set of officers, but in God’s faithfulness through the years”.
A visit to the local Bunnings on the Saturday was an opportunity for the Carindale team and local corps members to connect with the public and encourage them to attend the “Saturday Night with the Salvos” concert that evening.
“The community outreach at Bunnings was well received by both the staff and the community members,” said Lieut Bust. “They enjoyed the wide variety of music that Carindale band shared during the event.”
More than 100 people attended the concert. Highlights included a stirring introduction of Coronation Fanfare from the band, a beautiful setting of I’m in His Hands by Harmony in Song, and an opportunity for the congregation to get to know Carindale team members through a segment called “The Share Chair”. There were also some powerful moments of worship as the audience joined with the entire team from Carindale in 10,000 Reasons and This is Amazing Grace.
“We always aim to connect with the audience through everything we do as a team,” said Carindale team member Jared Proellocks. “We don’t know the circumstances of everyone in the room, but we do know that we have a great variety, and that God will find a medium to speak into their lives, whether it’s through band, timbrels, drama or choir.” 
On the Sunday morning, Major Michele Terracini, the Carindale Corps officer, led the congregation in worship and a powerful message of God’s mercy in our lives.
“We have been looking at God’s mercy in our sermon series at Carindale, and it was a timely reminder that because of his mercy – we matter to him! Whether we are from Carindale or Ballina, we matter to God, and he has a wonderful plan for our lives, for The Salvation Army, and for our local corps,” Jared said.
Lieut Bust said the Carindale Corps’ visit was the perfect way to end Ballina’s anniversary celebrations.
“We have been celebrating their 125th anniversary celebrations over the last year, and this came to a conclusion with the visit of Carindale Salvos,” he said. “We celebrated God’s faithfulness to his people over the last 125 years, and we look forward to all that God will do into the future.”
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Wonderful to hear that God is still at work in Ballina!
1892...Ballina was a wild place, and alcohol was available from numerous pubs...NSW was still a colony with convicts from England still in our jails!
River street was a wild place, but the next street back was a lot Tamar:)
Communities in those days could ask the Government for a church building, and the Government would supply one...hence all the little churches everywhere, like Uralba.
The positive influence of Christianity in this country cannot be understated. Christian Colonial Governors granting pardon, and freedom to penal detainees...Samuel Marsden a circuit (horse) riding Methodist preacher holding services and marrying defacto couples...Looking at the crime statistics of the time is scary: capital punishment was common, crimes included murder, rape as well as theft! Praise God for Godly people at that time and again today: people like Salvation Army Christian Stuart Diver surviving the Thredbo disaster as he says because of his faith, and knowing God had a future for him.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you, plans to give you hope and a future"... Jer29:11[NIV]
A loving Father in Heaven has a plan for every one of us...He wants to take us to Heaven, and He wants to bring Heaven down to us in the here and now, being born again as Jesus puts it in His famous discourse in John chapter three is all about eternal life with a capital 'L', and abundant life as He continues in John 10:10!
May you avail yourself of God's free gift today: " For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" Rom 6:23 [KJV]
Talk to me, and I will tell you more! God bless you. (If you seek Him you will surely find Him:) Heb11:6 [KJV] describes how: use the faith you've got, and feed it with the word of God!