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 9:30am QLD/10:30am NSW and look forward to spending time with you.
Border Church this Week
This week we continue our series called "Enchanted by the Go-Spell". We are looking this week at the greatest evidence of the Gospel. It was shown by Jesus and you can show it too. It is undeniable but difficult.
This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having nachos/haystacks food for lunch this week! Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
This Weekend
Note that there is no Epic Youth while school holidays are on. We will resume on October 20.
News
For those who aren't wanting to vote on Saturday October 14 in the referendum, there are early voting locations around the region. Here are some places you may cast your vote today before the election or on election day in bold.
- Share-N-Care Centre - 31 Tenth Avenue, Palm Beach
- Tugun Village Community Centre - 414-432 Coolangatta Road
- Coolangatta State School - Stapylton St
- Tweed Masonic Centre - 8 Boyd Street
- South Tweed Community Centre (Skate park) - 18 Heffron Street
- Casuarina Hockey Club - 1 Barclay Drive
If you do not make it to a voting booth today and do not wish to vote on Sabbath, sunset tomorrow is at 5:53pm, meaning you could still vote in QLD in the 7 minutes before polls close at 6pm. Coolangatta and Tugun are the closest locations to the border. Other locations can be found at https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/voting.htm#start
Having experienced division on our border recently we pray that God guides our country on a path that rejects division over ethnic differences.
On Tuesday October 24 at 6pm there will be a celebration of 15 years of local churches sponsoring SRE in the Tweed. This will be held at Tweed Presbyterian Church Hall on the corner of Florence and Wharf Streets, Tweed Heads.
The next combined Churches service will be hosted by Tweed Presbyterian Church on Sunday November 12 at 10:45am.
I just recorded two more programs in the series on lessons from Church History. We covered the period of the Great Awakening (1800-1914) and then the modern period, 1914-2000. My fifth radio podcast with Juice 107.3's 'The Punchline' aired recently. This one was on Church History from 1500 A.D-1800 AD. covering the period of the the Reformation, with lessons for the Gold Coast-Tweed in 2023. Past shows can be found on the links below:
Church History 1500-1800: Reformation and Revolution and lessons for 2023
Church History 1000-1500AD: Dark Ages and lessons for 2023
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
Our first series on Messianic Prophecies is now finished and in 2024 we will resume a new series looking at the New Testament view of prophecy (minus Revelation which will be dealt with in a future season). If you would like to catch up on studies in this series, 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 9:30am QLD/10:30am NSW.
Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina, Victor and Erina