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 we start a new series called "Enchanted by the Go-Spell". We will begin to set forth practical steps for us to "Go" in our community. Our introduction to this series is "You Can't Spell God without Go".
This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having soups and stews this week! Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
As it is Father's Day we will also have a special prayer of commissioning for the dads and father figures in our Church Family and wider community.
This Weekend
Friday night is Epic Youth. To coincide with Father's day, it is BYO Dad or father-figure (can be a mum that wears the "dad" hat. 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
Erina has now hit 6 weeks old and is sleeping 6-8 hours at night, which is what we were praying for. This frees me to do my full amount of duties at Border Church and with the inter-Church community. I am hitting the ground running from this coming week and will be attending the GC Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. After that, I will be meeting with organisers for next year's Will Graham Crusade as we bring the Tweed into the event. I will also record another podcast for Juice 107.3 that day, this time on the Reformation-era of the Christian Church. I will look to bring out lessons we can learn for today.
Next Saturday, 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.
My fifth radio podcast with Juice 107.3's 'The Punchline' 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