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STATE LEADER
Josh is the leader for ACC Community Engagement in NSW/ACT. Through this role he leads churches in discovering their unique purpose among the local community using the strengths and assets they do have to reach people that would never normally come to their church.
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Josh lives in Wollongong NSW and has been married to Taleah for 18 years. They have 4 beautiful kids. Josh is a Senior Leader at Lighthouse Church, a church known for its community impact 7 days a week.
Josh is in his 6th season as the team chaplain to the Illawarra Hawks NBL team. He is passionate about making faith accessible to everyone and positioning the church in such a way that it makes sense to the local community around it.
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Josh currently enjoys trail running, taking sunrise photos around Wollongong, and also has a podcast called ‘The Middle Man’ which helps leaders turn vision into reality.
RESOURCES FROM JOSH HAMMANN
The Everyday Church Podcast
Everyday Church Podcast is about sharing stories of the often untold, simple and extraordinary work Churches across Australian communities are doing and why they do it!
This podcast is one way to show the true breadth and beauty of the local church. I am the Community Engagement Leader for the Australian Christian Churches Movement in NSW/ACT.
Elite Encouragements Book
Elite Encouragements is designed to be a book for you to use across a typical season to spend some time with God, prior to a game.
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Each Encouragement follows a flow of Read, Think, Pray & ‘The Bottom Line’. There is also a space to write your own reflections and each encouragement has suggestions of other times in a season that this reading could be used.
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All proceeds made from the sales of this book will go directly to Lighthouse Community Kitchen.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS
​Community Engagement and Discipleship are talked about in the same conversation more and more.
Community Engagement is the playground for great Discipleship to exist. The churches doing discipleship best are those great at Community Engagement. It’s like a match made in heaven.
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Join us for our Community Engagement Roundtable, at Eastcoast Church on May 27th 2025.
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LOVE IS OUR WEAPON
LOVE IS OUR WEAPON, is an excellent tool for empowering everyday people of faith to make a difference around them. The best part is that it is done as a church or youth program, it is free, easy to use and homegrown from one of our South Coast ACC pastors, Charlie Halliday! Charlie and Benaiah Halliday are ACC NSW ACT Regional Leaders for the South Coast region.
Check out Love is Our Weapon here: www.loveisourweapon.com. Community Engagement Leader, Josh Hammann, recently recorded an interview on his Everyday Church podcast with Charlie.
