Bishop Darrell Parker’s Presidential Address to the Diocese of North West Australia

Posted on October 10, 2024 
Filed under Australian dioceses

“The life saving and life transforming ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ continues steadily across the North West of Western Australia.

I’m deeply conscious that first and foremost, before we say anything concerning the details of that ministry, we must thank God for his mercies in what has been achieved. He surely is the one who makes this happen and empowers it by his Spirit, so it’s in sincere thanks, gratitude, and praise that I begin this Presidential Report to our Diocesan Synod.

If we together have achieved anything of eternal significance in this last year, our first instinct must be to humble ourselves before our Creator, Saviour, and King, and say ‘thank you’. I say this because ‘our’ works in gospel ministry are firstly ’The Lord’s’ works in gospel ministry. Our gospel acts of service belong to him well and truly before we undertake or even conceive of them. Paul reminds us of this truth in Ephesians 2:10,

…. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

This address is classified into three parts:

(1) Our Ministry Environment
(2) Diocesan Ministry Initiatives and Change
(3) Some Episcopal Observations …”

– Read it all here. A great reminder to pray for ministry in the North West.