What is Growing Disciples?

Growing Disciples is a year long course that promises to grow us as disciples of Jesus Christ. Rather than merely 'knowing about' God, we will be helped to know him personally and relationally. This happens as we build a daily habit of 'slowing down' to intentionally focus ourselves on God, reading the bible and praying.
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About Growing Disciples

What's involved?

Growing Disciples is a free, self-paced, program of Bible reading, Prayer and Growth Exercises. It works best when you commit to doing it together with a group of friends so that you can discuss what you're learning, compare notes, and keep each other going. The Bible reading component of the course aims to read through the whole bible in a year. It is broken down into parts so you decide how 'deep' you want to go-- (i) a short daily devotional, (ii) just the "Key Moments" or (iii) read every verse of the bible in a year.

Bible: Daily Devotionals

Every weekday the Growing Disciples team posts a 10 minute 'daily devotional' covering a small part of the bible text, following biblical narrative throughout the year...
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Growth Exercises

The Growth Exercises in this course are intended to strengthen us spiritually, often by creating new patterns or habits in our life with God...
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Bible: Reading Guide

Going a little further in reading the bible, each month the Growing Disciples team publishes a Reading Guide for the current part of the biblical narrative, starting from Genesis and finishing at Revelation...
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Prayer

The currency of any relationship is communication. Prayer— our responsive communication with God— is therefore central to the life of a disciple...
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Meet the team

The Growing Disciples team for 2023

Growing Disciples is brought to you by a team of volunteers from a combination of churches. We all have formal ministry and theological training and most importantly are excited to walk along side you as we look to grow as disciples of Christ.
Stuart Holman
St Swithun's Pymble
I'm all about seeing people transformed by Jesus Christ. I created this course because of my experience of learning to know God personally, day-by-day.

It's changed my life, although I'm definitely a fellow traveller on this journey. I believe that God will do the same for you as you commit to this course.

Senior Minister at St Swithun's Anglican Church in Pymble, I'm married to Cate with three adult children and Joey the dog.
Mal York
St Andrew's Roseville
I'm the Senior Minister of St Andrew’s Roseville and am married to Heather and have 4 adult children. I love good coffee, music and sport.

l am passionate about seeing people grow as Disciples of Jesus Christ and have God’s word, by his Spirit, impact their heart, soul, mind and actions. Through this, seeing people grow in their intimacy with God and each other; fulfilling God’s purposes of being a blessing to the world and the growth of his Kingdom.
Vanessa Hughes
St Andrew's Roseville
My name is Ness Hughes and I'm Associate Pastor at St Andrew's Roseville. I love ministry and the way that my life, faith, work and friends blend into one experience for me and my family.

Walking alongside people and sharing life and faith is what is most important to me, coming around God's word with others as we learn to trust him more and more each day. Growing Disciples is such a blessing as it provides the resource for us sit under God's word together each day and I am looking forward to being part of it again this year!
Andrew Bell
St Swithun's Pymble
As a follower of Jesus, and an Assistant Minister, I believe that growing as a disciple is key to my Christian walk. Being a part of the Growing Disciples team is a great chance to help other Christians grow in their faith, maturity and wisdom as we all become better followers of Jesus Christ.

My hope and prayer for this year is that, through Growing Disciples, we can help more people know God, and help them to be Christians who disciple other people too.
Nigel Gray
St Swithun's Pymble
I'm originally from Northern Ireland but I became a Christian in the Northern Territory while backpacking around Australia. Some years later, I came back to Australia after meeting my wife Delia. We have two teenage daughters, Ashleigh and Emma.

I've been serving on the staff of St Swithun's for 8 years now, and am currently heading up our Outreach team and pastor our 6pm congregation.
Scott Warner
St Andrew's Roseville
I'm the new Maturity Pastor at St Andrew's Roseville and am looking forward to learning and exploring the Growing Disciples course throughout the year.

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Please feel free to reach out if you have any thoughts or feedback. If you'd like to share how you have been growing personally as a disciple, we'd love to hear from you!
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