THE WHO
About Steve and Bek Deal - Steve grew up in Cootamundra and Bek on the Coast. We lived in California for 4 years before deciding to move home and start Bloom Co. We love Jesus. We are students of his word. We are worshippers, songwriters, musicians, singers and ministers. Whether it’s leading 3 people in worship in our living room or many thousands in our church home of the past 4 years at Sandals in California, we love to invite the Lord into a space and get out of the way so that Jesus is the one being glorified and he gets to do what he wants to do.
We’ve been at it for decades and have seen 35 church plants up close over the years, the good, the bad and the ugly. Our aim is to make it as simple, beautiful and uncomplicated as possible. We can’t wait to see what God does at Bloom Co as we begin gathering together.
THE WHAT
We want to invite people into a life of becoming more like Jesus, into a community that searches for and releases beauty, that values simplicity and desires to let our lives, every part, be worship. In every day moments; in the middle of the night with a crying baby or the commute to work on Monday morning or in helping an elderly neighbor in need, we want our lives to be worship.
The church God has placed inside of us has intimate, addictive, life changing worship infused with Heaven that seeks with a desperation to minister to the heart of God and glorify Him above all else. It will be ‘in the round’.
Our desire is to see people immersed into an encounter with the Living God through songs, through the word of God and around the table eating and drinking together. In all of these things, we want to relentlessly pursue the presence of God and experience the power of The Holy Spirit together.
THE WHY
We desire to see people on the Central Coast encounter Jesus and together, go on a journey to discover what it is to live a life of worship.
We are blessed in Australia but this leads most people feeling like they just don’t need God because they think they have everything they need. Abundance is a false god in Australia and the majority of the people don’t know God. 350,000 people live on The Central Coast and there are not enough churches, leaving the vast majority of the population unchurched.
Australia is a post Christian nation that has seen Christianity decline from 61% in 2011 down to 43.9% in 2021.
Over 15,000,000 of Australia’s 25,000,000 people do not identify as Christian so planting churches that operate in the power of God is a desperate need.