Border News - 2023, Week 16

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 10am and look forward to spending time with you. 

Border Church this week

This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence and will look at Aaron and his priestly prayer of blessing from Numbers 6:22-27. 

We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having poke bowls this week. 

News

We now have a new roster for Church Luncheons through to the end of September. If you would like to plan ahead and know what to bring for the future, you can find this list here on our website - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster

On Anzac Day this year, Tuesday April 25, there will be a Combined Churches Family event at Murwillumbah showgrounds at 11:30am. If you would like to volunteer to help set up, please get there an hour earlier. If you are wishing to attend a service that day you can find a list of ANZAC day services here - https://www.insidegoldcoast.com.au/gold-coast-anzac-day-services

At 5pm on Sunday April 30, in the evening, there is a planned Combined Churches worship service. Two of the larger churches in our area will be combining and are inviting others to join with them.

May 27 is the National Day of Prayer and Fasting. Border Church will be hosting a combined Churches service this day as part of this national initiative. 

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. A special newsletter will come out as soon as we have the final dates and locations locked in.

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