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
As Christmas approaches, we will look this week at Jesus, the Son of God before He came to earth as a man. Even throughout the Old Testament, Christ was here showing us what God was like. He was the Divine Messenger of the Covenant. What can we learn about our Saviour through the Old Testament before He came in human flesh?
We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having pot luck this week! Bring your favourite food to share and enjoy. Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
This Weekend
This week Epic Youth is back on at 5:30-7:30pm NSW time at the Tweed Presbyterian Church Hall, the Corner of Wharf and Florence streets, Tweed Heads. We will be dressing up and recreating Bible stories tonight! The program for the remainder of our term is below
News
Last month we held our first Taboo Talk. We recorded that video but unfortunately there was some corruption to the video file. It has taken me a month but I was able to retrieve the video and fix the audio to be able to upload this online. You can watch this video now on Youtube below
The next combined Churches service will be hosted by Tweed Presbyterian Church on Sunday November 12 at 10:45am.
Saturday afternoon December 2 we will join other Churches in the park at Jack Evans for a Combined Churches Family Fun day. Please mark it in your calendars and start sharing with people you know. We will be meeting to discuss soon with the other Churches what we can do as part of this afternoon. Ideas are welcome!
My last two programs in the series on lessons from Church History have aired. We covered the period of the Great Awakening (1800-1914) and then the modern period, 1914-2000 with lessons for the Gold Coast-Tweed in 2023. Past shows can be found on the links below:
Church History 1914-2000: Lessons from the last 100 years for 2023
Church History 1800-1914: Great Awakening to War and lessons for 2023
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