Roger Osborne
Ministry C.V.
Received Christ as Lord & Saviour at Christian City Church (C3) Cromer 15th March 1985. Where we were members of C3 Church for 34 years, 1985 to 2019.
1985 Joined Dee Why Christian Surfers and served as a Leader and Treasurer for 2 years.
1986 Christian City Church Part Time Bible College for 1 year.
1987 Birthed a House Church which continued weekly for 18 consecutive years.
1987 Christian City Church Full-Time Ministry Training College. Diploma in Leadership and Ministry
1988 January 24th married Vanessa Noonan at Christian City Church(C3)
1988 Founded Christian City Anglers (CCA) – A Christian fishing club reaching out to the fishermen of Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Some weekly club meetings had 80 – 100 men and women in attendance. A message from the bible would be preached at these meetings.
CCA held weekly club meetings at Warriewood Surf Club and a monthly fishing competition featuring Deep Sea, Rock and Beach sections.
CCA was sponsored by Daiwa fishing tackle and was featured in the local newspaper “The Manly Daily”
After 10 years serving as the leader of CCA, I stood down to focus on our young family of 3 boys and building a catering business.
1989 Two week missionary trip to Central India preaching in various churches, with an interpreter while accompanying Pastor Mark Saundercock and a team of bible college students.
Shortly after getting married in 1988, we launched their own catering business called “As You Like It! Catering Company, later to be rebranded “Icon Event Catering”.
C3 Church (then at Brookvale) was our first client. Over the years we catered for hundreds of events for C3 including the official Celebration on the land at the commencement of the church construction at Oxford Falls for 1600 people and the largest event being the Annual Women’s Conference where they fed 1800 women morning tea and lunch.
Our catering business won many Restaurant and Catering Awards For Excellence including;
Two times Sydney Metropolitan Corporate Caterer Of The Year 2009 & 2010.
Australian Corporate Caterer Of The Year 2009.
Two times Sydney Metropolitan Wedding Caterer Of The Year 2009 & 2011.
C3 New Chistian Essentials Classes – Leader and teacher for 1 year.
Guest Lecturer at C3 Bible College Oxford Falls
C3 College 1 year Vocals Course – Singing and performing.
Fast Forward
We have had a burden to start a church at Burrill Lake & have seen the hand of God many times getting us down here with many testimonies for later.
God clearly has called us to start a church specifically at Burrill Lake. There is a powerful testimony behind this move, too many words to write in this C.V
In 2019 we sold our Northern Beaches home and moved south.
Within weeks of arriving we started a Wednesday night prayer meeting in our home.
Over the last 18 months this meeting has grown to around 30 people.
In October 2020 the name Burrill Lake Community Church (BLCC) was registered with the NSW Department Of Fair Trading as an “Incorporated Association”.
BLCC now holds a Saturday Bible Study in addition to our Wednesday worship meetings.
