INC EMAG 2026Q1 2 - Flipbook - Page 34
MUD ARMY
BUNDABERG
ALIVE CHURCH
When 昀氀oodwaters swept through Bundaberg in
able to activate an army to respond to people
March, the Mayor personally called Senior
on their hardest days is invaluable. This is what
Pastors Adam & Joey Ryan to coordinate
community and loving your neighbour should
volunteer clean-up efforts. The Bundaberg
look like. Mates helping mates.” With many
Regional Council nominated Alive Church to
homes devastated and homeowners left
lead the charge and with that a website was
navigating the wreckage of everything they’d
built over night by church staff and they saw
built. Into that devastation walked the Mud
community donations come in thousands and
Army, volunteers ready to get their hands
330 people sign up to serve - the response
dirty for their neighbours. A public comment
was extraordinary. “The Mud Army was met
on the church facebook “This church actually
with tears from homeowners as they navigated
does what it preaches” is what’s it all about...
their devastation,” Pastor Joey shared. “To be
reaching our world for Christ.
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