Home at the Park: A New Season of Sorrow & Joy

It was a sombre Sunday for the ‘Home at the Park Community’ on 5 November 2022. The three year ADRA Community Assistance project had come to the end of its season.

Home at the Park has been an instrumental practical mission field. It not only served the local community needs of the City of Stirling, but contributed to the faith journeys of the volunteers and guests alike, which resulted in the organic growth of the local Church. Home at the Park was also unique in establishing community and unifying the Osborne Park, North Perth and Fremantle Seventh-day Adventist Churches. They worked in harmony together. Home at the Park practically and actively lived out Jesus commission of what is relevant in society today—the call of what it means to be a follower of Jesus as shared in Matthew 25:31-46.

All glory and gratitude to God for empowering each one of our world changing volunteers, consistently serving with their time and passion. Over the past three years they helped serve with:

• Over 50+ hot showers with One Voice,

• 90+ Christmas parcels,

• 150+ food parcels,

• 450+ loads of washing with Orange Sky and

• Over 3,000+ hot meals. The transformative part to remember is that these meals are not simply a quick fix, they are intentional and interpersonal. They involve one on one authentic conversations and from them, with the leading of the Holy Spirit, we have seen lives transformed.

As the Osborne Park Seventh-day Adventist Church continues into a new season, it is my prayer that every Church, group and believer prayerfully seek the wisdom and guidance of the Holy Spirit to ensure we are the hands and feet of Jesus.