Community
Expanding our capacity to bring help and hope.
Join us at Church across the month of June as we partner together for the future and discover how each of us can have generational impact.
Our Heart for Expansion
Generosity is at the heart of who we are as Christ-followers - it reflects God’s nature in us. As we give of ourselves, we become more like Jesus, whose boundless generosity changed the world. Proverbs 11 tells us the world of the generous grows larger and larger – not just in resources, but in love, influence, and impact. As we live ‘Presenced’ this year, we’re reminded that His generosity allows us to expand God’s presence around us and advances His Kingdom here on Earth.
Expansion is one of the ways we, as His Church, live out that generosity. It’s how we stretch beyond where we are — making room for more people to encounter Jesus, share in community, and find hope. Expansion has always been about people. It’s about meeting needs, giving hope, and creating opportunity for lives to be transformed by the reality of Jesus.
Thank you for being a part of Expansion. We are so grateful to be building God’s Kingdom with you. Together, we can impact and change our generation and this city with the reality of Jesus.
Ps Dan and Ashari McGaw
Campus Pastors
What Is Expansion?
Expansion is all about ‘extending the tent pegs’ of our church. It’s not about covering the day-to-day operational costs. Instead, it’s about growing our impact to see the Kingdom of God advance here on Earth.
The heart of Expansion is for generational impact. Ultimately, Expansion will always be about people. People like you who carry the vision, and the people we have been entrusted to reach. Together, we’re believing to see our generation impacted and changed with the reality of Jesus.
Our Expansion Offering is a call to partner together financially to bring Jesus to people around us by sowing seed into growing three areas of our church:
The heart of Expansion is for generational impact. Ultimately, Expansion will always be about people. People like you who carry the vision, and the people we have been entrusted to reach. Together, we’re believing to see our generation impacted and changed with the reality of Jesus.
Our Expansion Offering is a call to partner together financially to bring Jesus to people around us by sowing seed into growing three areas of our church:
Facilities
Expanding His house for more people to find a home.
Kingdom
Expanding the reach of God’s Kingdom beyond LIFE.
Catch up on our Expansion messages
Soni's Story
For the longest me I never really gave any thought to the glory of Christ during high school. In fact, I never really knew the name Jesus – all I knew was my big circle of friends, my creativity, my music, my camera, and my dreams. Essentially all the things that you and I both value, but just no Jesus. With that, I became surrounded by a world full of substances, partying, alcohol, and impurity. That was normal for me. I would go to Hindley Street every Saturday night to have fun. I would perform my music on stages in clubs and eventually get paid for it. I would naturally involve myself in drugs and tobacco because that’s just the culture of those places. That’s normal for me. Now, what wasn’t normal, was me going to church. That’s like flipping my whole world upside down. How did I come to find church? My first church experience was when I was in year 11 or 12 (I don’t remember, back then I don’t think I was sober) when my best friend invited to come to youth a few times. Funny enough, that wasn’t the moment I met Jesus, but it was the moment seeds were being planted in my life. I only came a whole 3 times and never came back. I graduated high school and one of my friends at the time found Christ during that season. He invited me to church, and to support him I decided to come with him. I wasn’t there for no Jesus (yet), I was there purely for my friend. Turns out it was the same church as the youth I went to. This day marked the day Jesus, being God, introduced Himself to me. I won’t lie I was way too prideful to see how joyful and loving the church truly was, and God knew my heart at the time wouldn’t see that – and so it was inworship, the start of the service, where Jesus planted visions inside of my mind. Jesus talked to me, and He showed me how good He truly is, and how flawed I am, but also how loved I am. And so, every Sunday I would come back to church, not yet for the preach, or the coffee, or not even the community (not yet!). In this season, I would come every Sunday knowing Jesus would give me a new vision in worship. And He did! That’s how Jesus saved me in the house of God, called LIFE Adelaide. This is my home, and Jesus used this building to start my journey with Him over the course of my life. Now I’m here for the family, the body of Christ – being the church. I get to be creative, make music, lead the year 7 boys, and hold up a camera to serve the Lord, all in the house of God. He turned my dreams into His dream, but that couldn’t have been fulfilled without the church itself. My encouragement to all who attend this house is – think more than just now and think more than just what you see. It took a span of a few years for me to even be saved in the house of God, but without youth being there, without the service, the worship, and even the community, Jesus couldn’t have used it. Think about how many people’s lives and eternities can be impacted, all because of your faithful act of obedience to be a part of and support the church through what’s in your hands. Thank you, Jesus.