Grosey's Messages

My first church service at the newly formed Kiama Baptist Fellowship in February 1984 was a service of induction conducted by Rev. Reg Baggs a very godly returned WEC missionary retired but preaching for the fledgling church's Sunday evening service held at the Kiama Council Chambers. The church had been meeting there only in order to see if there were any folks attending other churches in the area that might be interested in forming a baptist church. Ken (a TAFE teacher) and Beth Faulkner and their five kids under twelve years old, the Devlins (a retired headmaster and his physio therapist wife) played the organ and the Hermawens (returned WEC missionaries from Indonesia), made up the congregation. Oh and one big blowfly that sat on the top of Reg's bald head the entire time he gave his solemn charge to me about the ministry I was to undertake. It was very hard to not laugh at the absurd picture of the solemn charge delivered by round Reg Baggs with a big blowfly sitting on top.