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 our special guest speaker is Scot Devlin from Creation Ministries International. We are so blessed to partner with CMI and look forward to what Scot has to share that will give us confidence in the Biblical story of origins. Scot joins us for two talks:
10am service - Genesis and the Gospel
2pm service - Ape To Man: Fact Vs Fiction
This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having pot luck lunch! Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
This Weekend
Friday night is Epic Youth. The theme is "Round Robin". We meet at the Tweed Presbyterian Church at the corner of Florence and Wharf streets, Tweed Heads. Start time is 5:30pm. We are combining with other Churches in the area for combined youth, grades 4-9 (older kids also welcome as leaders). Here is the term schedule below.
News
We have one more guest speaker before returning to normal programing. Next Saturday we will be joined by our friend, Phil Coates from Murwillumbah Baptist Church. Phil is a semi-regular guest at Border Church as he loves to come for a double dose of the Holy Ghost for his weekend.
Starting in September, we will be having a hiatus from our series on Prayers of Power. We will resume in 2024 with this series as we pick up from the life of David. God has placed it on my heart to do a couple of new smaller series as we look at how to practically grow the kingdom in this region. The first series will be called "Enchanted by the Go-Spell" and will start September 2.
On September 9 we are planning to be in the park for our first time in Spring. We are going to have a big celebration of family and children and an overall fun day for all.
On Sunday, September 10 at 2:30pm we have a meeting of our vision team to plan outreach for the Spring and Summer and look forward into 2024. Stay tuned for more details.
This Monday I recorded my fifth radio podcast with Juice 107.3's 'The Punchline' and this will air on one of the coming Sundays. This one was on Church History from 1000 A.D-1500 AD. covering the period of the Dark Ages up to the Reformation, 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
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