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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 the story of Gideon and his conversations with God. What does it mean to Fleece God? Is this something we should do? This story of Gideon also shows us what our focus should be on (P.S. it isn't numbers). 

We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having Poke Bowls on special request as we celebrate a special milestone for one of our family. Soup and stews will now be next week. Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster

This Weekend

On Sunday afternoon we are joining with other Churches in this area for a Combined Church service. We hosted the last service in February and this time King Jesus Church will be hosting at the Tugun Community Centre, 414 Coolangatta Road, Tugun. Pastor Michael Boyd from the Tweed Presbyterian Church will be speaking on the tantalising topic of "The Call of the Groom". I will be leading out in communion beforehand. Please come and support this unity of the saints and meet others who love to serve God. 

News

If you would like to see the worship from a couple of weeks ago at King Jesus Church at Tugun where I preached the message "Run into the Fire" you can find it here:

I am currently putting together songbooks for Border Church. If you have any favourite hymns, praise or scripture songs you would like to nominate to be in them, please let me know. Inclusion will depend on the complexity of the song and whether it fits the criteria of a worship song, but we hope to include as many favourite worship songs as possible. (There are many great Christian ballads out there, but we are focusing on songs we can sing in worship.)

May is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention month. We will be specially praying over our community in regards to this space during the month of May. 

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. Due to the unavailability of our regular meeting place at the QCWA Hall we will be meeting a few streets over at Vibe Church. If you go to other Churches in our area, please invite your leaders to join with us on this day as we pray over our community. 

During Cooly Rocks On, Churches in our area have invited the Tent of Promise to set up as a means of witnessing and leading people to Christ. The theme will be Jesus Rocks On. On the evenings of June 8-11 local evangelists will speak and there is opportunity to volunteer during the days in leading people around the tent, sharing Jesus with them. Training will be held the week before and these details will come soon. 

Due to the unavailability of our Church during Cooly Rocks weekend, we will also hold our Saturday service at the Tent of Promise. We are looking at a shuttle service to help people who have to park far away so they can make it. Parking may be available on side streets so please plan to be there. We will have Classical Violinist Hayden Wiseman for the weekend and he will play during our Service as well as leading out in other Churches in the area over the weekend.

Sowing Season: Autumn 2023

We have had some registrations for our English Confidence, Cooking, Car Care, DARP and Bible studies programs. These all have openings still available. Please share these programs with others. You can copy the graphics and then send them to people. 

Clothing Alterations

Beginning Tuesday May 16, Lorraine Latchman and Janine Pye will be running a course on clothing alterations at 179 Botanical Circuit, Banora Point. This will begin at 4pm and will run over several consecutive weeks. To register for this course, please contact Lorraine (0426799943) or Janine (0407438992). 

English Improvement

Beginning Sunday, May 14, Alina Valiant will be running a course aimed at helping speakers of English as a Second Language to improve their confidence and skill in English. This course will run for six weeks and will begin at 1pm each Sunday. To register for this course, please contact Alina at 0401 167 731. 

Depression and Anxiety Recovery Program

We will be running two courses to begin in the coming weeks, one online and one in person. For registration please contact Brendan on 0421074460.

In Person: Starting at 6pm Tuesday May 16 and running over 8 weeks, we will be hosting a course in Banora Point, location being finalised. 

Online: Starting 7pm Wednesday, May 17 and running over 8 weeks, we will be hosting a course over Zoom. The link for this course is - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82045690353

Alpha Course

We will be running two regular Alpha courses from June, one online and one in person in Banora Point. For registration please contact Brendan on 0421074460.

Online: Starting 6pm on Monday June 5 and running for 9 weeks, we will be hosting over Zoom. The link for this course is - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82583073399

In Person: Starting at 6pm Friday June 16 and running over 9 weeks we will be hosting at The Glebe. 

Sealed & Revealed - Heralds of the Messiah

This is a new interactive discipleship series that will run over at least 12 weeks looking at prophecies pointing to the coming Messiah and showing that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah. Through key passages, we will also lay the groundwork for understanding how prophecy works, types of prophecy, and the themes, principles and methods of interpretation. We will run classes online in two time slots. For registration please contact Brendan on 0421074460.

Timeslot 1: Mondays 7pm, beginning Monday May 15. 

Timeslot 2: Wednesdays 6pm beginning Wednesday May 17. 

The Zoom link for both classes will be - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81584149095

Car Care

We are running a half-day course on June 4 in the afternoon. Location TBD. Please share this with those who would be blessed by this practical and interactive course.  

Healthy Cooking

We have partnered with the ladies at the QCWA and will be running four beginner healthy cooking classes over consecutive weeks beginning in mid-June. 

YouTube Sermons

Since we moved to our new residence, I have been behind on uploading our sermons to YouTube each week. This is now all caught up and the current playlist can be found below. We are looking at options to simulcast our worship services on both Facebook and YouTube in the near future. 

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 Alpha 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. 

Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina, Victor and Erina