Asked about the Friday night meeting that was held at Percy and June Mole's home in Coal Street at Bundamba; and about the timing of Christian Life Centre Ipswich beginning above the UFS Dispensary, Evan wrote:
"Actually it was a prayer meeting and sometimes Bible study to begin with. John Van Kempen took me along one time and that's how I got to become a part of it. A fellow named Bob Knight, Laury Carsons, John Van Kempen, Percy and myself were the members. It was from this prayer meeting that the desire to have something more came from and that was what a lot of prayer went into. A cell group then started at Percy's place from memory and that's around the time your dad came on the scene and a second cell group started with your dad as the leader. It was after probably a year or so that we started the Sunday service above the UFS dispensary."
But the meeting at my dad's place - Bruce and Lynette Edwards's place - wasn't officially a cell group of Christian Life Centre Brisbane. My parents were still attending their evangelical, mainline denominational home-church when they started their home-meetings - it was just a home-meeting for anyone seeking deeper fellowship in the Spirit.
When the decision was made to launch CLC Ipswich, in rented premises above the UFS Dispensary however, a number of those who were attending Bruce and Lynette Edwards's home-meeting did soon start attending CLC Ipswich and made it their home-church - just as a number of those who had been attending the home-meeting at Percy and June Mole's home-meeting were part of the new church.
"Actually it was a prayer meeting and sometimes Bible study to begin with. John Van Kempen took me along one time and that's how I got to become a part of it. A fellow named Bob Knight, Laury Carsons, John Van Kempen, Percy and myself were the members. It was from this prayer meeting that the desire to have something more came from and that was what a lot of prayer went into. A cell group then started at Percy's place from memory and that's around the time your dad came on the scene and a second cell group started with your dad as the leader. It was after probably a year or so that we started the Sunday service above the UFS dispensary."
But the meeting at my dad's place - Bruce and Lynette Edwards's place - wasn't officially a cell group of Christian Life Centre Brisbane. My parents were still attending their evangelical, mainline denominational home-church when they started their home-meetings - it was just a home-meeting for anyone seeking deeper fellowship in the Spirit.
When the decision was made to launch CLC Ipswich, in rented premises above the UFS Dispensary however, a number of those who were attending Bruce and Lynette Edwards's home-meeting did soon start attending CLC Ipswich and made it their home-church - just as a number of those who had been attending the home-meeting at Percy and June Mole's home-meeting were part of the new church.
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