Church News for the week beginning 7th June
OUR BIBLE TALK
This week we will hear the talk titled ‘Revealing Evil’, as Jodie leads us from chapters 17-20 of Revelation. To watch the livestream of our services, simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com
MORNING PRAYER DAILY
Every morning (except Sunday) we come together at 7.30am for a half-hour prayer time at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we pray for our church and our world.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month is CMS. To support this great ministry visit cms.org.au or call (02) 9284 6777 to talk to a member of their team.
PARISH COUNCIL
The next Parish Council meeting will be held in the church hall (or Zoom if needed) on Tuesday 9th June at 7pm.
KITCHEN RENOVATION
The walls and floor are all done, and next week the shelving, benches and appliances arrive. We’ve received $9,500 plus a new freezer and microwave, and now need another $2,500 for shelving, benches, and other appliances. We’d also love a commercial dishwasher, which will cost another $5,000. Can you help?
LIVESTREAMING
To assist those who are unable to join us in person, our church services will continue to be live-streamed. If you’d prefer not to be filmed, please sit on the left of the church and avoid the front four pews.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
To watch videos of our Bible talks and other memories of our church, visit youtube.jamberooanglican.com and be sure to subscribe to our channel!
FAMILY NEWS
BIRTHDAYS:
9th Greg Gray
ANNIVERSARIES:
GIVING UPDATE
During May we fell a bit short in our giving, but we understand that the challenges of not gathering in our building have made it hard for some of you to get your financial gifts to us for our ministry here in our village, valley and beyond. This weekend we’ll have a way for you to bring financial gifts along to our church building during our services, if you’ve not been able to organise direct giving.
Each week we need to receive $3100.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $2310.00, leaving a gap of $790.00. 
Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the details. Account name: Church of England Jamberoo. Account number: 10081274. BSB: 062562.
Connecting through live-streaming
One of the surprise outcomes of the COVID-19 restrictions has been the great number of people who have tuned in to join us via Facebook Live.
Not only has this technology helped our regular members gather for church, but it’s also been a wonderful way to include friends and neighbours from our village, valley and way beyond into our services.
For this reason, our Archbishop has encouraged our churches to continue live-streaming into the future so that we can keep this terrific form of community engagement going for good.
So, we will continue to stream our services to Facebook Live, especially during the time of COVID-19 restrictions, so that we can carry out our Covid-Safe plan which provides unwell and higher-risk people with the option of staying home without missing out.
Our prayer is that everyone who is able to safely attend will come and be with us in person, but this technology means we can have a safe and inclusive environment for everyone to connect with our services via video broadcasts.
Our video cameras are located at our all-new tech area at the back of the church, but from this weekend we will not be having any ultra-wide angle shots of the whole inside of the building, so that people can attend without any concern about being filmed.
If you need or would like to avoid being filmed for livestream, then please sit on the left (carpark) side of the church and avoid the front four rows. If you sit in the seats on the right side then you might find the back of your head filmed from time to time when you stand up, but it won’t get in the way of the shot.
We’re praying that the new technology will help us continue to connect our church with the world through Facebook Live, whilst also maintaining a place where we can gather in person, without worrying about about video cameras, if that is a concern to you.
JODIE McNEILL
Coming up this weekend 6-7 June
OUR DOORS ARE OPEN THIS WEEKEND TO THE PUBLIC!
Yes, this Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 9am we’re welcoming people through our doors, so please come and join us in person. We can only take 50 people on our site, but that’s plenty for our morning service, and should be right for Saturday night.*
However we’re still going to run our full service in glorious livestream at Facebook Live, so if you’d rather stay home for now, then simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com.
We’ll also be running our youth group at 7.30pm on Saturday face to face in the hall… which is pretty exciting!
During the service, Jodie will be opening up chapters 17-20 of Revelation as we see the awesome defeat of evil. A Bible talk not to be missed!
If you have any questions about our current Revelation series or Christianity in general, simply email us at office@jamberooanglican.com or send an SMS to 0439 890 086 and Jodie would love to answer them this weekend during our services.
*if more people show up than the official 50-person limit, then priority will be given to visitors. We’ll have a few regular members all ready to leave the site and pop home to watch on the livestream, and/or join us in the morning when we’ll probably have a few extra seats. It’s all good… we’re COVID-safe!
Church News for the week beginning 31st May
WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME IN PERSON?
This weekend we’re allowed ten people plus those conducting the service to attend in person. If you’d like to come in person then email jodie@jodiemcneill.com to indicate your interest, especially if you’ve not had an opportunity to physically attend in recent months.
SATURDAY PRAYER MEETING
Join us this morning at 7.30am for a half-hour prayer time at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we pray for our church and our world at this important time.
OUR BIBLE TALK
This week we will see the revealing destruction as Jodie leads us from chapters 15 & 16 of Revelation. To watch the livestreams of our services, simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com or connect now at zoom.jamberooanglican.com .
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month is Anglicare. To support this great ministry visit www.anglicare.org.au or call 1300 111 278 to talk to a member of their team.
KITCHEN RENOVATION
The electrical work is complete and the plastering is almost finished. The men from our ‘Fit for Purpose’ group will be meeting on Wednesday and Thursday to paint the room, then the flooring will be installed from Friday.
We’ve received $8,000 plus a new freezer and microwave, and now need another $4,000 for shelving, benches, and other appliances. We’d also love a commercial dishwasher, which will cost another $5,000. Can you help?
COVID RESTRICTIONS
The NSW Government has just announced that from 1st June we’ll be allowed to have many more people physically attending our church. Details will be announced next week about what this will mean for our church.
NEW SOUND SYSTEM
This week we’ve had a brand-new, digital sound desk installed, which should improve the quality of the sound for the livestream, as well as the sound from the church speakers. It also means that all the tech stuff has moved to the rear of the church, tidying up the pews.
FAMILY NEWS
Congratulations to Matt and Kiarnay Cignarella on the birth on Wednesday of Tucker Jude, a beautiful baby brother to Dawson.
SMALL GROUPS
Our midweek small groups are still running, even though they’re video conferences! Our forced home assignments mean it’s a perfect time to join one! We’ll send you the links to Zoom meetings on Sunday afternoon, but here are the meetings for you to join:
- Graham and Lesley Errington – 11am Monday
- Mandy McNeill (women’s group) – 9am Tuesday
- Trevor and Robyn Lucas – 7:30pm Wednesday
- Jodie and Mandy McNeill – 7pm Thursday
GIVING UPDATE
We give thanks to God that we’ve hit our target for giving in April! We are sincerely thankful to God for all who have switched from cash to direct giving, and for how this has given us some security in our church ministry as we look to reach out, together, to this hurting world. Praise God.
Each week we need to receive $3100.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $2310.00, leaving a gap of $790.00.
Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the details. Account name: Church of England Jamberoo. Account number: 10081274. BSB: 062562.
Coming up this weekend 30-31 May
This week we see the revealing destruction as Jodie leads us from chapters 15 & 16 of Revelation. To watch the livestreams of our services, simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com.
Please note that our buildings are not open to the public during the pandemic shutdown, but you’re very welcome to join via our livestream.
Each week we have a question and answer segment. To ask a question, simply email us at office@jamberooanglican.com or send an SMS to 0439 890 086.
Join us online this week on Saturday at 5pm for our family service where we have a kids spot, lead by our Youth & Children’s Minister, Rayne (we also have a downloadable PDF for the kids to do while church is on). Or why not join us on Sunday at 9am for a more classic Anglican feel. After each service you may also like to have fellowship with us over Zoom, so we can chat and catch up!
watch.jamberooanglican.com