{"id":489,"date":"2017-11-06T01:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvbc.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:16:35","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dvbc.net\/wordpress\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-489\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-489-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-489-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-489-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" >\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>We're a community of a few hundred believers who regularly meet in our Greensborough-located mud-brick building hand-built by church members some three decades ago. We're made up of a cast of characters (much like the Bible), all of whom are at different stages of our relationship with God.\u00a0We are a diverse family of imperfect believers seeking to follow a perfect God, wrestling with what church looks like in 21st-century Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Together we're asking hard questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does church look like in the 21st century...and what <em>should<\/em> it look like?<\/li>\n<li>How do we grow, encourage and support our members in their relationship with Christ?<\/li>\n<li>How can we best serve the community of Greensborough, Plenty and the fast-growing northeastern suburbs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are intensely proud of where we have come from and are excited about venturing into the unknown. 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