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
We will be joined this week by Matt French and the team from Final Hour Provision who recently returned from their mission trip to Uganda and Burundi. They will share some of the many testimonies of what they witnessed God doing while they were there.
This week I will look at a what should not be a controversial topic - women in ministry. As part of my stand alone topics of re-examining what I used to believe, I will document my journey from a position of believing women in positions of pastorship or eldership was not Biblical to discovering the true headship teachings of the Bible.
We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having Americana this week - burgers, hot dogs, fries! We would love you to join us for this time of fellowship. 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. This week it is youth vs leaders! The program for the remainder of our term is below:
Sunday evening at 6pm the Murwillumbah monthly Combined Churches meeting is hosted this month by Murwillumbah Church of Christ. All are welcome at 18 William St, Murwillumbah for this time of united worship.
News
Many expressed interest in getting my notes from last week's sermon on Michael the Archangel. I have attached these notes to this newsletter -
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 next Sunday November 12 at 10:45am NSW Time. Pastor Willy Dumas from Gunggalah Church will be leading out and Pastor David Stojcic from The Vine will be taking Communion.
On Tuesday November 14 at 7pm Qld time Christian musician Jeremy Camp will be having a concert at Newlife Robina. This is part of the Jeremy's "I Still Believe" Tour. Jeremy's life has been made into a movie of the same name and tells his inspirational journey. General Admission tickets are still available and cost $44.80 - https://www.itickets.com/register/new/474708
On Wednesday November 15 at 7:30pm QLD time, there is a prayer and praise time being held at Robina Anglican Church, at 186 Robina Town Centre Drive. This is to sow prayer and begin networking prayer warriors ahead of next year's Will Graham Lookup Celebration.
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!
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 NSW time 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.
Wednesday Night Bible Study
A few weeks ago we finished season one of Sealed & Revealed and will resume with Season 2 in 2024. However, to fill in the gap before Christmas, we will begin again this Wednesday night at 6:30pm QLD/7:30pm NSW time looking at questions you have suggested. The first few weeks will look at the Creation of this world and look at some answers to the Evolutionary process in the light of the Bible and Science.
The Zoom link for this is below - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
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