Dear Border Church Family,
This week we are in our regular venue at the CWA Hall at 169 Griffith Street, Coolangatta (next to the Pink Hotel). Parking is available on Griffith and Boundary streets and Marine Pde. There is also parking under or next to Twin Towns if it is really busy on the street.
This week is an Acts 29 week. The book of Acts ends at chapter 28 but does not close the story. We are the continuation of the story of the book of Acts. Every first Saturday of the month we will hear a testimony from someone and learn how to give your own testimony. This month we are going to hear from our Executive Pastor, Janine Pye.
This week for our message we will be continuing our series on Prayers of Power: Unlocking Omnipotence by looking at prayer in Abraham as a father of intercessory prayer in the Scriptures. There is so much to unpack from Abraham.
We always have a healthy vegetarian fellowship lunch after Church. This week we will be having Indian food, so please feel free to stay and enjoy fellowship with us.
Tomorrow, Friday March 3 is the World Day of Prayer. There are several events you can join in with as part of this program. In the Tweed, there is a morning service at 10am NSW time at Kingscliff Anglican Church. For those wanting to go to the Southern Gold Coast event, it is going to be at Living Temple Church at Tugun and 9:30am QLD time. I will be at the Tugun event.
We will be again joining King Jesus in the evening as they have a combined Churches prayer and praise meeting at the Tugun Community Centre at 6:30pm this Friday.
This Sunday afternoon, March 5 at 2:30pm QLD/3:30pm NSW, we will be having a vision team meeting to discuss the next few months. If you would like to join us for this we will be hosting out our new residence in Banora Point. The address is available on request - 0421074460. We will be having refreshments afterwards.
Len Rossow from the Australian Prayer Network is hosting a 6-week Intercessory Prayer training starting this coming Monday at 10:30am-12:30pm QLD time at Carrara. See the poster below.
There is an upcoming women's event for the ladies in our midst. If you would like to attend this please see the flyer below.
We will be supporting the GC Churches in Easter United this year. If you would like to volunteer to help make this event a success you can register as a volunteer at the link here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/easter-united-2023-volunteers-tickets-512709256187.
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 I AM 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 2:30pm QLD/3:30pm NSW 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 9:30am QLD and 10:30am NSW.
Blessings
love
Brendan, Alina and Victor + Bump.