Dear Border Church Family, 

This week we are hosting the National Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Border area - Tugun to Banora Point - Churches. We will be holding this event at Vibe Church, 3 Beryl Street, Tweed Heads. See below for more details on the program. 

Border Church this week

The National Day of Prayer and Fasting runs from 10am to 4pm. There is no obligation to be there for the entirety of this pogram. Each hour has a different theme for our prayers and will be co-hosted by different Churches in our region. 

10am-11am - Worship team from Ganggalah and Living Waters Churches

Adoration, Worship and Thanksgiving

11am-12pm - King Jesus and Tweed Church of Church

Being rooted and grounded in Love

12pm-1pm - Kingdom Life Church

Prayer for leaders and unity in our nation

1pm-2pm - Border Church

Communion Service

2pm-3pm - Vibe Church and Newlife Church

Prayer for Christian Witness and Release of Labourers for the Harvest

3pm-4pm - The Gathering

Declaration of God's Purposes over our Community and Release of Living Water across the Land

We will finish with an afternoon tea instead of our regular lunch for those that are there at the end. If you would like to bring light refreshments such as fruit, biscuits, etc that would be appreciated. 

This Weekend

This weekend is Pentecost Sunday according to the liturgical calendar and is a great opportunity to network with and meet Christians from other Churches. I encourage you to find a local Church that commemorates this occasion and participate. 

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 next week. 

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. Hayden will be back again in late July, so we hope to build hype for a concert at that time. 

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