Dear Border Church Family, 

Wherever you find yourself this weekend, we wish you a blessed and reflective Easter season as we all remember the sacrifice and victory of God the Father through Jesus our Saviour and King. 

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 10am and look forward to spending time with you. 

New Time!

With the end of Daylight Savings, we are now meeting at 10am each Saturday. Please adjust your reminders accordingly. 

Border Church this week

This week, for Easter Saturday, we will be celebrating the Lord's Supper in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice and victory. 

This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence and will look at Moses' Prayer/Song after crossing the Red Sea in Exodus 15. This is a really fitting theme for the middle of Easter as we will explore. 

We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. Whenever we have Communion, we have it as part of a lunch together and with a Middle-Eastern/Mediterranean theme. 

Big Thank you

Alina and I want to thank everyone who came last week for our reveal and for Victor's birthday and those who sent their love who were unable to make it. We had such an amazing time. Thank you to those who gave gifts for Victor for his birthday. We are so glad to reveal that we are having a baby girl. Here is a picture of Erina (Peace) Tiana (Princess) Valiant

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.

This weekend - Easter Services

This coming week is full of Passover and Easter events that may be a blessing to you or an opportunity for us to connect with others in our community who are running programs. On Saturday April 8 at Border Church we will be looking at the Song of Moses during the Exodus which was a type of what Jesus accomplished on the Cross.

Thursday April 6
6PM - Tweed Presbyterian Church
Friday April 7 - Good Friday
8AM - Gardn Church
9AM - Tweed Salvos
4PM - Gold Coast Chapel, Passover in the Park, Mudgeeraba Showgrounds
Saturday April 8 - Easter Saturday
10AM - Border Church
6PM - St Ksenia's Russian Orthodox, Tweed
Sunday April 9 - Easter Sunday
5:45AM - Combined Beachside, Reedy Creek Baptist, Tweed Hub Sunrise at Currumbin Beach
6AM - Tweed Salvos Sunrise, Point Danger (top of Boundary Street)
9-10AM start - Various Churches
2PM - King Jesus, Tugun
5PM - Easter United - Broadwater Parklands
Monday April 10
10:30AM - Border Church Family Picnic at Jack Evans

I highly recommend going to whatever events you are free for so you can meet and network with other Christians. Please be safe on the roads over the holiday period as it can be dangerous. We are praying for safe travels for all who are taking time away.

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. 

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 3pm 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 10am NSW. 

Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina, Victor and Erina