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. We welcome members of our sister church, King Jesus who will join us while that Church transitions to a new season. 

Border Church this week

This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence and will wrap up the time of the Judges by looking at the story of Samson and his parents. The title of this message will be "It Matters How you Finish". 

This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having soup and stews. Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster

News

Last week was an amazing blessing at the Tent of Promise. We met so many new brothers and sisters and there were many souls saved as we interacted with the public. We were so blessed to have this ministry in our midst and we hope they will come again next year. Big shoutout to Kingdom Life and Living Waters Churches who joined us in inviting Tent of Promise as well as evangelists Jessie Skelley, Willie Dumas and Stephen Smith for leading out in the evenings. 

We are also extremely thankful to Hayden Wiseman for blessing us with his music. We will be having Hayden come through again during the July 22-23 weekend and will be organising combined Church concerts for that weekend. If you would like to purchase any of his music or support his ministry you can do so through - https://haydenwiseman.com/

A few weeks ago, I recorded my third radio podcast with Juice 107.3's 'The Punchline'. This one on Early Church History and lessons for the Gold Coast-Tweed in 2023. This aired last Sunday and you can listen to it on the website below. I will also include the last two shows I have recorded with other ministers on the Gold Coast. 

Early Church History and Lessons for 2023

What does the Bible Say About Food?

Denominational Differences and Sheep Stealing

I am currently 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. 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. (There are many great Christian ballads out there, but we are focusing on songs we can sing in worship.)

Sowing Season

Healthy Cooking

Our first Healthy Cooking class this Tuesday was a great success. We are partnering with the QCWA and Country Kitchens. We have a couple more spots if you know anyone who would be interested for the next three Tuesdays. To register, please contact 0421 074 460.

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:

English Improvement

Each Sunday until the end of June, Alina Valiant will be running a course aimed at helping speakers of English as a Second Language to improve their confidence and skill in English. This course will run for six weeks and will begin at 1pm each Sunday. To register for this course, please contact Alina at 0401 167 731. 

Depression and Anxiety Recovery Program

We are still running this, but have pushed it back to the end of June. Register your interest for either in-person or online attendance for you or someone you know on 0421 074 460. 

YouTube Sermons

Since we moved to our new residence, I have been behind on uploading our sermons to YouTube each week. This is now all caught up and the current playlist can be found below. We are looking at options to simulcast our worship services on both Facebook and YouTube in the near future. 

Regular programing

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. 

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. You can join this prayer meeting through zoom with the link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81584149095. All are welcome to join as we pray for our community and upcoming projects. 

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 

If you would like to give to our building upgrade fund, please mark your offering for this purpose. We will be sharing in some of the costs of upgrading the CWA hall so that we can have some dedicated storage for Border Church as well as insulation to reduce some of the noise and echo in the hall. 

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at 10am. 

Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina, Victor and Erina