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.
As I write this, Alina's contractions are 6 minutes apart and we are about to leave for the hospital. After a week of off-and-on labour, this is a welcome conclusion. We look forward to introducing you to our new child very soon.
Border Church this week
This we are having another special guest speaker. Friend of Border Church, Hayden Wiseman is coming again to take our service and to bless us with a free community concert in the afternoon. This is Hayden's first concert after getting engaged to his now fiancée, Paula Adamczyk. Paula is a flautist and I am told there may be a duet at some point.
This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having soups and stews! Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
After lunch we will have a concert from 1:30pm. Please invite anyone you know who would enjoy this concert. They are welcome to come earlier for lunch from 12pm.
News
We have some exciting guests coming to bless us in July and August as Alina will be out of commission after Erina arrives and Brendan will be taking lighter duties to help out with the baby. My lighter duties will still enable me to visit and assist any members as needed.
- Next week on July 29, we will have Pastor Andy McLaughlan bringing us the Word.
- On August 5 we will have Organic Naturopath Monica Shepherd who will be speaking in the morning on what the Bible says about Health and Wellness and in the afternoon is going to speak about Nutrition Hacks for Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Abundance.
- Also in August we have our friends Jessie Skelley from the Tweed Church of Christ and Phil Coates from Murwillumbah Baptist Church.
- On August 26 we will be having Scott Devlin from Creation Ministries International speak at Border Church in the morning and afternoon. I am super excited for this event!
In August, the Pacific Coast Christian School is putting on a musical based on the works of Dr Seuss - Dr Seussical the Musical. Tickets are on sale here - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1076229
Carly Fletcher is a Christian musician with a passion for sharing the gospel through song. She is working on her fourth studio album of original music and is over halfway towards her fundraising goal. Carly will be coming to Border Church soon to bless us with her music, and we are just looking at locking in a date. If you would like to support Carly's ministry, you can do so at https://gofund.me/1d84b541
I recently recorded my fourth radio podcast with Juice 107.3's 'The Punchline' and this aired last Sunday. This one was on Church History from 500 A.D-100 AD. covering the beginnings of the Dark Ages and the millennial expectation of Christ's return, with lessons for the Gold Coast-Tweed in 2023. Past shows can be found on the links below:
Church History up to 1000AD and Lessons for 2023
Early Church History and Lessons for 2023
What does the Bible Say About Food?
Denominational Differences and Sheep Stealing
I am almost finished 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 ASAP. 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.
Give
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
Weekly meetings
Wednesday Prayer Meeting
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. All are welcome to join as we pray for our community and upcoming projects.
Sealed & Revealed - Heralds of the Messiah
This is a new interactive discipleship series that will run over a few months 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
If you would like to catch up on previous studies, recorded sessions can be found on the secret YouTube playlist here:
Other worship opportunities
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.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at 10am.
Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina, Victor and Erina