Open Hands, Open Doors
Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond at Windsor Park Baptist Church.
2025: Embracing the NOW
Growing Together: Our 2025 Budget
In 2025, we are called to respond to two significant needs - one visionary and one practical.
Welcoming Aidan Wivell Full-Time
We are thrilled to announce that Aidan Wivell, who has served part-time while completing pastoral leadership studies, will join our pastoral team full-time in 2025! Aidan will continue investing in our young adults while taking on a vital role in developing and supporting Windsor’s teaching and preaching ministries. His energy and insights will enrich our community, and your support will ensure his ministry thrives.
See Our Full Staff TeamMaintaining Our Space for Ministry
On the practical side, rising insurance costs (now $79,000 annually – yikes!) and essential repairs for our aging property require our attention. These are less glamorous needs, but as the 2023 floods have demonstrated – they are much needed, and they are crucial for stewarding our building well, and for providing a safe and welcoming space for all who walk through our doors.To meet these budget goals, we need to increase our personal giving by 12% compared to what we’ve achieved in 2024. This is a step of faith, but it’s also a reflection of our commitment to God’s work here at Windsor. If you’re able to increase your giving, or start giving, thank you. Every contribution matters.
Giving at WindsorExpanding our Kids’ Ministries
For nearly five years since the start of the Covid season, we’ve been waiting for the right moment to bring back kids’ ministries to our 10.45am service. With our 9am kids programme full to the brim, that moment is here! Starting from Sunday, February 16th 2025, we’ll be reintroducing pre, primary and intermediate programmes to this service.This is more than just filling a gap - it’s also a chance to open our doors wider and create a space where all generations worship and grow together. To make this vision a reality, we need your prayers, participation (coming along to the 10.45am service and volunteering in it), and invitations to friends and neighbours to come along to church. It’s not about the numbers game, it’s about seeing people in our community encountering Jesus and being transformed by His love, peace and goodness. If you’re willing to use your skills and talents to serve at this service, you can sign up to volunteer, or find out more about serving below:
Volunteer Opportunities2025+: Building the FUTURE
Redeveloping Our Site
While we seek to care for and steward well a now 50+ year-old purpose-designed pub that has been converted to a church, we’re continuing to look to the horizon and pursue a due diligence process around redevelopment of our site that will provide excellent facilities for the benefit of the next generation of leaders, and those that come after them. While we’ve been on this journey for a few years now, we know it’s a complex and significant project, particularly during a time when the economy hasn’t provided the stimulus we need for such an undertaking. Of course, this means it’s the best time to be doing due diligence as when conditions are more favourable, we’ll be better placed to make sound decisions. We’ll continue with due diligence during 2025 with support from our external consultants, Strategic Property, and will report back as the project inches along towards its goal.
Growing the Endowment Fund
Last year we established the Windsor Endowment Fund - a future-focused initiative to sustain our mission for generations to come. Our endowment fund has for the most part been built up through legacy giving, however this year we received our first ‘live’ donation from folks who believe in what an endowment can achieve in the long term. With $70,000 already in the fund, we’re dreaming big: Could we grow it to $500,000 or even $1 million? In 2025, we’ll share more about this opportunity, and encourage you to consider how you might contribute, either now or through legacy giving. This fund represents a lasting investment in God’s work through Windsor.
Find Out MoreMoving Forward Together
These goals are ambitious, but they are rooted in faith and our shared vision of building God’s kingdom. As we journey together, I invite you to pray, reflect, and take part in what God is doing through Windsor Park Baptist Church - whether by giving, serving, inviting others, or sharing your ideas.
Thank you for being part of this community and for the many ways you contribute to its life and mission. I look forward to seeing how God works through all of us in 2025 and beyond.
Yours on the journey,
Grant Harris
Senior Pastor
Windsor Park Baptist Church