Our Team
City Life CRC Church believes as Jesus taught ‘go and make disciples.’ Our team believes in dicipleship and leading by example in the way Jesus showed us in the gospels.
We believe our core team is given by the Holy Spirit to lead in this way and to help in the raising up of up and coming leaders, by this same example.
Meet Your Senior Pastors
James and Dorcas Mwendwa
James and Dorcas are originally from Kenya, East Africa. We have dedicated our lives to discipleship and spiritual growth through fellowship, God's Word, and prayer. Our passion is to be truly qualified witnesses of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, empowered by the anointing of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), as we disciple and equip others for ministry. We draw deep inspiration from the example of Jesus Christ, a servant leader whose service was marked by love, compassion, and a commitment to empowering others.
James and Dorcas are actively involved in church planting, Bible teaching, and prophetic and healing ministries. Their mission is to equip the body of Christ for the end-time harvest. As a result, they travel frequently and extensively to minister, train, and inspire leaders. They encourage others to pursue the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ diligently, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, so that all may be continually filled with the fullness of God (2 Corinthians 13:14, Ephesians 3:19) as they serve Him.
Meet The Associate Pastor
Isabel Baker
My first memory of Jesus is as a 4-yr old being taken by a neighbour to Methodist Sunday school and seeing the parable of the good Samaritan being acted out with dolls in a sandpit. As a 12yr old my school friend asked me to a Church of Christ girls camp and there I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. In the third year of my nursing training another nurse invited me to attend a healing meeting at St Andrew Anglican Cathedral in Sydney where I met a group of young people who were Baptised in the Holy Spirit. Soon I too experienced the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
in !978 my husband and our small children followed a call to leave Melbourne and join Now Ministry church in Wagga which over time has evolved in City Life CRC. For over 55yrs I have continued to grow in my personal relationship with God. I have taught Sunday School, ran youth group, home group and prayer in the church. I was involved with combined churches activities run by Inter School Christian Fellowship and Fusion sharing the gospel message. I raised my family as a single mother from 1987 while worked as a specialist dementia nurse and I recently wrote “A to Z of Dementia Care”.
Since 1992 I have been involved in short term missions both here and overseas. Beginning with SU beach mission at Bermagui and then from 2000 Children’s camp ministry in Russia and Estonia, I also went on ministry trips to Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines and China. In 2003 I was ordained as a specialist Pastor in the CRC. I continue to preach, teach and share the good news of Jesus love for all mankind.
What We Believe
Here at City Life CRC Church, we understand that God wants each of us to GROW and FULFIL the potential within our lives, so that each one of us can take our rightful place in the body of Christ and contribute to expanding the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth.
God expects that we continue our spiritual journey once we are BORN AGAIN. Colossians 1:28 says, “So that we may present everyone perfect in Christ”. Ephesians 4:13 “until we all reach unity in the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining the whole measure of the fullness of Christ”
He wants us to grow, to mature, to become perfect, attaining the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. The ministering team in our church family is to support every person in this process of spiritual growth and maturity. We all have a journey that we are on, and we want to assist each person in reaching the potential that God has given them.
Your spiritual journey begins when you BELIEVE in Jesus and accept Him into your life. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whoever BELIEVES in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” To this end, we have outreach activities and events throughout the year in different parts of the world.
We encourage people to continue their journey by joining a community of like-minded believers and start growing in their faith. This is where we begin to BELONG. Where can we learn and grow together in our faith and hope in God. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other (Romans 12:5).
As we grow and mature in God a natural reaction is that we want to start using the gifts that God has given us to serve others. This is how we BECOME all that God wants us to be. We start to fulfil the destiny that God has for our lives and use our gifts and abilities to help others in a way that brings honour and glory to God. This is what Jesus said: “Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men” God knows that each of us are at a different stage of our spiritual journey, and he wants us to keep growing.
You are welcome to join us in this noble task. You can participate in different ways. Please get in touch