Border News - 2023, Week 12
Dear Border Church Family,
This week we will be having Church in our regular venue at the QCWA Hall at 169 Griffith Street, Coolangatta. Parking can be found on Griffith and Boundary Streets as well as on Marine Parade. For shaded parking you can park under Twin Towns. We will be meeting at 9:30am QLD time/10:30am NSW time and look forward to spending time with you.
Border Church this week
This week we will look at our individual personality traits and the strengths that come with them for mission. If you haven't yet completed the Spiritual Gifts inventory, you can find it attached here - Spiritual Gifts Test.
To pre-complete a personality test, you can find one here - https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/test
This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence by looking at prayer in the speeches of Job. This is a raw and honest look at speaking to God in the midst of suffering. Next week we will look at the response of God.
We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. This week we will be having an Indian-themed meal.
Invitation from our hosts at QCWA
The lovely ladies at the QCWA are extending an invitation and special offer for anyone who would like to join the QCWA Coolangatta branch. Join now for an extra 3 months membership from April 1 through to next June 30, 2024. The fee is only $40 with the Coolangatta branch subsidising the balance of the $77 fee. Membership 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 them. You can find the sign up sheet attached here - QCWA Membership Form.
Welcome Baby Zale
On Thursday, Guy, Heather, Bronte and Alia welcomed baby Zale into the world. Many blessings to your family with this new addition.
News
If you didn't catch the episode of The Punchline last Sunday evening where the topic was "Biblical Food Laws", you can hear the rerun online. The podcast includes a segment cut from the radio broadcast discussing Acts 10 and 15. You can listen to this program at the following link:
This weekend
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
This Sunday at 2pm Qld time King Jesus are having some worship leaders come for a special combined Churches worship service. All are invited to this.
Coming events
Next Week! 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.
Here is a list of tasks you can volunteer for:
- Host Team
- Carpark
- Kids Face Painting
- Pre-Show
- Information Tent
- Sponsor Support
- New Christians
- Kids Pre-Show Support
- Production Support
- Pre-Event Outreach
Easter services
We strongly encourage you to attend combined Easter services to build connections and networking as we remember what Jesus did for us. A list of events for next weekend will be attached to next week's newsletter.
Sowing Season: Autumn 2023
After Easter, we will be launching our first Sowing Season. 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 from next week.
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.