Chinese Ministry Network

Chinese one-room church planting to make disciples for multiplication and transformation of the community, as well as mentorship for Moore Theological College students for better evangelism and discipleship outcomes.

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One-room Chinese Church, under the Revelation 7 Church Network of Chester Hill Anglican Church, is in the associate partnership with ENC, trying to make Chinese disciples in Chester Hill and beyond, to start a generation growth church structure in the South West of Sydney.
We want to see the gospel of Jesus in grace and truth to transform the culture, values and life of the Chinese people in the community. We want to make Chinese disciples who can reach out in their own social and family network to share the good news of Jesus and make other disciples. We want to form the one-room church that has three-thirds of Stop, Listen and Go in our gatherings to nurture fellowship and accountability, to be centred on the Word of God with discussions and sharing, and to encourage action in our daily Christian lives.
We are eager to see this simple form of church be multiplied in the community to make more disciples for Jesus, and try to explore a way of reaching broad and deep into the Chinese community to raise up many more lay leaders for the needs of church growth and planting.
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Tom Zhang

Tom originally came from China, became a disciple of Jesus through campus ministry in Sydney and was always interested in discipleship and disciple-making. He later came to Moore College to be equipped with a good Biblical foundation in making disciples, and personally saw that evangelism and discipleship should go together in bringing up mature disciples for Jesus to fulfil the Great Commission.

After College, Tom came to Chester Hill Anglican Church as an evangelist and caught their vision to reach all nations in the South West through disciple-making communities.

During Covid, the church established small churches (one-room churches) as a better way to mature people in the epidemic and reach out to all nations. As a result, Tom became the One-room Chinese church Leader to multiply small churches. After 5 years of church planting, we saw 10 people become believers and actively seek a way to grow them into maturity and challenge them to serve in a team to reach out to their neighbours and friends. Currently, we are trying the Chinese Alpha course and want to use this course and other similar courses to build up the team and make friends with the community by attending to their felt-needs.

After 2 years with ENC for both the Chinese Ministry at Chester Hill and mentoring at Moore college, Tom is now employed under Chester Hill as a Part-time assistant minister who still looks after the Chinese Ministry and one-room church as well as helping the senior minister for the English 9am congregation and other new initiatives.

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One-room church is an easy form for lay people to lead, has the potential to reach out to many people in the community through social and family networks, and communicate the gospel clearly to different subcultures of Chinese people who rarely come to visit traditional churches.

It also has the potential for church planting in the South West to reach out to many cultures in different languages and people groups. It is a new way of thinking about the church planting that was evidenced in the Acts before the institution of churches.

If you want to see how this new form of church can be used and multiplied for the Kingdom of God, please kindly support us in both prayer and giving.

Your giving will mainly support Tom in his family and ministry needs to realize this idea of one-room church at Chester Hill for Chinese ministry multiplication and growth.

Your investment and prayer will help Tom and his team to reach out to the local Chinese community under God,  for a transformation of the people in their daily lives to live out for Jesus as salt and light, and share the good news to a wide Chinese community in the South West.

Encouragements from Tom, our Chinese Ministry Evangelist