2020 was a huge year. It started off amazingly as the momentum of 2019 was continuing. In October 2019, I (Aaron) felt the Lord challenging me and the events I was coordinating to slow down. In January 2020, I was thinking to myself this must not be right so kept running hard and fast. That year I began studying towards my Master of Leadership. After one of the first session over afternoon tea, I heard for the first time of this thing COVID-19. I brushed it off as just another scare tactic from some journo. But lo and behold, a few months later, slowing down was all that could be done. Covid-19, like others, forced me to slow down and stop. This stopping pushed me into areas of thinking, leading, coaching, training, and teaching that I had never thought I would ever do. Fast forward and I found myself focused on the discipleship of those closest to me.

As my family and I met regularly as the Church, I began to see a picture of what could be. As that picture became clearer, I spoke with my wife and we discussed the idea of a whacky, different, table ministry focused, weird Church gathering thing with a push towards missional living. After some time, we agreed to take the step faith needed to see what God had instore for us.

Fast forward towards the end of 2021, my wife, a core team member, and I finished up membership at a local Baptist church (that will always have a soft place in our hearts) and were sent on our journey as we set out to work out and do what God was showing us to do.

In 2022, Encircle began. A simple church with the Baptist Union of Queensland that has a vision to see five hundred micro-Churches planted across the Gold Coast filled with Jesus centred members who love their streets, suburbs, and our city by encircling God, each other (the Church), and the societies they find themselves.