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Everyone is welcome to come to join in our friendly church community

If it is your first time visiting HTK Church, we would love to get to know you!

The best way for us to get to know you, is for you to join us at our Sunday service at 9:00am.

This is where you can meet members of our friendly Church Community, and then stay after the service and join us for a tea or coffee.

Everyone is WELCOME!

HTK Vision and Mission

Our Vision

  • HTK is a vibrant church family with a heart and soul for people and God. God has given us a vision to be a family filled with love, joy and peace, passionately seeking to love God’s people as an outworking of our love for God.

  • We are a people who believe that discipleship is an all or nothing response. It is all heart and all soul, or it is nothing, that we are a people called to love God with ALL our heart, soul, mind and strength and our neighbour as ourselves.

  • To fulfill this sense of vision we need to develop a mission statement which is the ‘HOW’ we will fulfil our vision.

Our Mission

Our Mission is Living and Sharing the Jesus Life. We do this through

  • Loving God passionately through Worship (Worship in all forms of honouring and exulting God).

  • Learning, teaching and growing in faith;

  • Being Christ-like in the way we live to make Jesus known;

  • Loving people through belonging and caring for the community; and

  • Sharing God’s hope and promise with the world.

A word from Fr Steve

Sometimes things only seem to get worse......

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We can have the paths of our lives all mapped out. We can know exactly where we are going. Yet, there are times when we too can lose our way and crash land. An investment fails and a good deal of the money in the bank is eaten up. A redundancy hits you and you are left without a firm career path. A child rebels and causes great strain on the family. A serious illness strikes and the news comes that you mightn’t reach 50 let alone retirement.

None of us are immune from getting lost. The Bible tells us that it is part of our natural human condition. When life bottoms out for us and we crash, what can we do? Some people try harder, some people try all sorts of remedies, some people try to make more money, some people take a new career path, some people cut themselves off from the child who rebelled, some people run away from their problems, some resort to alcohol or drugs. But, in all these solutions, there are no guarantees that things won’t crash again. In fact, with some of them, life can only get worse.

God saw this condition in humanity. He saw us battling on with life’s problems and challenges. So, He sent His Son Jesus to help us and rescue us and turn all of those crashes of life and make them the means by which we would find the way. He did this by His death on the cross. Jesus came to show us God’s way to live and to cope with life.

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When life throws you a hard one and you crash and even burn, don’t forget that you are not alone. There is a way out. There is a way to get your life back on track again. It is by looking for that true God and true man Jesus, in the midst of your strife and following Him, out of the darkness into the light, as He leads you to the shelter of the arms of your heavenly Father who will give your life once more - direction, purpose, encouragement and fruitfulness always.

Being a Christian

Being a Christian is about having a relationship with Jesus.

But what does this mean?

Is it about going to Church every week? Loving my neighbour as myself? Making sure I regularly read my Bible and pray? Give money to the poor? Be a person of good moral character? Obey the law?

While many Christians may demonstrate all of these behaviours, these works alone do not make someone a Christian.

What we do does not save us from sin or make us “Christian”. Being “Christian” is about accepting Jesus’ death on the cross as payment for our sins and His resurrection as proof of His power over death.

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This is about way, way more than just being a good person and doing things for other people. This is about a whole new life with a whole new perspective.

When we enter into a relationship with Jesus, our hearts and minds are transformed. Our purpose changes and we become a new creation whose foundation, inspiration and expression come from the very heart, nature and being of God: the Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit. We become “Christian”.

Further information about Being Christian, Being Anglican, and the Bible can be viewed at the Anglican Church Southern Queensland website.

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Why HTK?

HTK is an Anglican Church which is Comprehensive (everyone is welcome), Christ-following (we seek God first to guide and direct our decision making) and Compassionate (we support each other as the Holy Spirit transforms us through God’s mercy and grace.

So what does this mean?

  • we are Christian

  • we are Anglican

  • worship of God is central to our faith

  • we celebrate the Eucharist (Holy Communion)

  • we read and meditate on the Bible

  • we acknowledge three persons in one God: who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

For more information about being Anglican we invite you to visit the Anglican Church Southern Queensland website.

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