Border News - 2023, Week 10

Dear Border Church Family, 

This week we are in our regular venue at the CWA Hall at 169 Griffith Street, Coolangatta (next to the Pink Hotel). Parking is available on Griffith and Boundary streets and Marine Pde. There is also parking under or next to Twin Towns if it is really busy on the street. 

Border Church this week

This week we are continuing our Discipleship steps. We are going to go through the results of our Spiritual Gifts inventory. If you weren't here a couple of weeks ago to fill this out, you can do so in the attached document to this newsletter below.

This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence by looking at prayer in the life of Abraham's children and grandchildren, particularly looking at Jacob/Israel. 

We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. This week we will be having haystacks/nachos. 

Invitation from our hosts at QCWA

The lovely ladies at the QCWA are extending an invitation for anyone who would like to join the QCWA. This offers opportunity for networking and meeting new people in our area and getting involved in community projects. We will be partnering with the CWA for things such as cooking classes in the near future, so it would be great if any of you would like to join the CWA. 

News and Upcoming events

On Saturday evening March 25 there is going to be a trivia night at King Jesus Church to fundraise for a Children's Restoration Centre in Uganda. Details can be found at the following link - https://www.facebook.com/events/883962152860469/. The cost to attend is $20 per person with teams of up to 6 people. Tickets can be prepurchased through eventbrite below:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/fhp-trivia-night-tickets-569089711647

Save the date! We will be having a special double-celebration after lunch on Saturday, April 1, 2023. This will be both a birthday celebration for Victor's 2nd birthday as well as a gender and name reveal for our "Bump". 

We will be supporting the GC Churches in Easter United this year. If you would like to volunteer to help make this event a success you can register as a volunteer at the link here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/easter-united-2023-volunteers-tickets-512709256187. 

After Easter, we will be launching our first season of sowing. Every Autumn and Spring we will have seasons of sowing into the community. For our first season, we will be running an Alpha Course, Car Basics, ESL (English as a Second Language) Essentials, Healthy Cooking, Depression and Anxiety Recovery and Sewing Alterations short courses. These will be opportunities for meeting people in the community and growing relationships with them. Please get involved with supporting one or more of these offerings through attendance, inviting people to attend and helping out. We will begin advertising this very soon. 

Regular programing

If you or anyone you know would like to start a Discovery Bible Reading group, we would be happy to equip and support you in this. We will be teaching how to do these from this week. It really is very simple. 

We run I AM small groups on a regular basis and if you would like help hosting one for your friends or loved ones to discover Jesus and the basics of the Bible, please let us know. 

Prayer meetings are on Wednesdays at 2:30pm QLD/3:30pm NSW at 179 Botanical Circuit, Banora Point. Please message me or speak to Lorraine if you have any prayer requests we can add to our list. You can join this prayer meeting through zoom with the link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81584149095. All are welcome to join as we pray for our community and upcoming projects. 

You can contribute towards our community outreach in our tithes and offerings box or online through various options on our website at https://border.church/give 

If you would like to give to our building upgrade fund, please mark your offering for this purpose. We will be sharing in some of the costs of upgrading the CWA hall so that we can have some dedicated storage for Border Church as well as insulation to reduce some of the noise and echo in the hall. 

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at 9:30am QLD and 10:30am NSW. 

Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina and Victor + Bump.