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 continue our series called "Enchanted by the Go-Spell". We learn another skill this week - how to lead out in a Discovery Bible Reading Session. How can you give people a contageous enthusiasm for God's love letter - the Bible? Come join us and pick up a free Discovery Bible Reading bookmark to aid you in this ministry.
This week we are having Cafe-Style Church. We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. We will be having pot luck lunch this week! Our lunch schedule can be found here - https://border.church/pages/church-luncheons-roster
In the afternoon we will be having our first Taboo Talk, covering the topic of "Deliverance". We will look at questions such as what deliverance is and isn't, what types of deliverance there can be, who can deliver people, and much, much more. Please come for this engaging discussion.
This Weekend
Note that there is no Epic Youth while school holidays are on. We will resume on October 20.
Sunday evening is the monthly combined Churches service for the Murwillumbah Churches. This will be held at All Saints Anglican Church, 32 Byangum Rd, Murwillumbah, at 6pm. All are welcome to join in worship.
This Sunday the dreaded Daylight Savings time comes in. As usual, for the next six months we will straddle the 10am time. That means that from next week we will start at 9:30am QLD time and 10:30am NSW time (Sorry Qlders, blame Joh Bjelke-Petersen). Please plan ahead accordingly.
News and Upcoming Events
If you would like the blessing of late-year festivals there are celebrations being held at Kingdom Church at 29/211 Brisbane Road, Biggera Waters. We are discussing partnering with them to hold southern celebrations in future years. Trumpets and Atonement are free for anyone.
Trumpets - Friday, September 15, 5:30pm
Atonement - Monday, September 25, 5:30pm
Tabernacles/Kingdom Festival - Friday, September 29 to Wednesday, October 4 - This will be a special event held at Genesis Church in Carrara. The schedule can be found here. The usual cost to attend this is $149 but anyone from Border Church can attend for $99 with a special code from the organisers - fqAHbolsLuC89al
Last Great Day - Friday, October 6, 5:30pm
Thursday the 12th of October is Purple Heart day, if you would like to join this or know anyone who would like to come there will be a gathering in the park at Jack Evans.
I am set to record two more programs next month to finish the series on lessons from Church History. We will cover 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 last Sunday. 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 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
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