Church News for the week beginning 14th June

OUR BIBLE TALK

This week is the last sermon of our current series ‘The End of the World: Revelation Revealed‘. Jodie will lead us from chapters 21 & 22 of Revelation as we see the revealing hope and look forward to eternity with Jesus. Join us in person! Or if you prefer to stay home still, simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com to watch the livestream of our services.

MORNING PRAYER DAILY

As our nation gets out of the doona, we’re moving our Morning Prayer a little earlier from Monday. At the new time of 7am every morning (except Sunday) join us at zoom.jamberooanglican.com for a half-hour time of prayer and Bible reading as we come before our Lord, together, each day.

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.

KITCHEN RENOVATION

It’s getting closer and closer! We’re expecting to have delivery of all the furniture and appliances very soon. We’ve now received $12,000 in donations, and we’re only short $5,000 in total, including the commercial dishwasher. Can you help us raise the final amount before we cook our first dinner?

GAFCON AUSTRALASIA

We are hosting a global Anglican event from our church on Wednesday night 24th June from 6:30-8pm. Watch at www.facebook.com/gafconaustralia as we use our new livestream gear to serve the global Anglican community!

SMALL GROUPS FACE-TO-FACE

Now that the health regulations have changed we can meet face-to-face in our small groups when your host is ready. Contact them to confirm when you can resume normal meeting arrangements.

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!

GAFCON AUSTRALASIA EVENT

We are hosting a global Anglican event from our church on Wednesday night 24th June from 6:30-8pm. Watch at www.facebook.com/gafconaustralia as we use our new livestream gear to serve the global Anglican community!

FAMILY NEWS

BIRTHDAYS:
16th Dulcie Piper
17th Eliza Kyngdon
20th Anita Lovell

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 $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.Olimometer 2.52

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.

Don’t Give Up Meeting Together

Over the past three months of Covid-19 restrictions, one verse from the Bible has continued to come to mind: “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.” (Hebrews 10:25).

God’s word clearly tells us that followers of Jesus need to make sure we keep meeting together so that we can keep encouraging one another whilst we wait the return of Jesus, but until last weekend, we’ve been told to keep the building closed to the public.

Yet, even though these restrictions have been hard for us, we have followed them because we gladly submit to our ruling authorities, knowing that they are sent for our good (Romans 13:1,4).

Plus, using the technology of live-streaming, we’ve been able to keep hearing God’s word together, and sharing in video conferences to keep encouraging one another after the online gathering.

As people of the new covenant we know that we meet Christ in his word by his Spirit, and that the temple is now his body, of which we are members by faith (1 Peter 2:5).

So, that’s why we’ve still been able to keep meeting together through video screens, even though we’ve been physically separate.

But now we’re allowed to come together again, how sweet is it to be in the same room together at the same time!

We look forward to the final aspects of the Covid-19 restrictions being eventually lifted for church, but even as we cannot properly sing when gathered, we can come together and set our minds on things above as we hear psalms, hymns and spiritual songs sung to us, for our reflection and encouragement (Colossians 3:16).

And though we long to be able to greet one another with a holy kiss (Romans 16:16), or at least a handshake, we know that we are fully connected through our union with Christ, knowing that we can’t get closer to each other than being part of the very same body! Amen!

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this weekend 13-14 June

OUR DOORS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

This week we look at chapters 21 & 22 in our last sermon of our series ‘The End of the World: Revelation Revealed‘. Jodie will lead us as we see the revealing hope and look forward to eternity with Jesus.

Come join us in person as we have fellowship together! We will still livestream at Facebook Live, so if you’d rather stay home for now, then simply head to watch.jamberooanglican.com.

Our youth group has also resumed back in person in the hall, from 7:30pm, after our Saturday family night service at 5pm. Our Sunday morning service is at 9am, followed by morning tea and hot espresso.

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.

Revelation Revealed 8: Revealing evil – Revelation 17-20 – 6-7 June 2020

A longing for something better

We have lasting ____ for the future

The great prostitute will be ________

Babylon stands for everything that is ____-God

Evil ____ will not stand forever

God calls his people to _____ Babylon

The destruction of godlessness brings us ___.

Everyone on God’s side _______ his name.

The bride of Christ is his ______.

Jesus comes to strike down his _______.

Satan is __________ by God.

The Devil is _________ forever.

The millennium is long but _____ time.

All people stand in _________.

Even _____ is now destroyed.

We cheer when we see things God’s way.

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 $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.Olimometer 2.52

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!

7. Revealing destruction Revelation chapters 15 to 16 – 30-31 May 2020

Disaster is compelling to watch.

We see the perspective of ___________.

If you’re on God’s side, you’re a ______.

God is angry at people who ______ him.

They were ________ to Christ when threatened.

When you’re _____, you sing.

Keep singing songs about ______!

The best life comes from _________ Jesus.

God is totally in control of __________.

There’s no place for more than one ultimate _____.

God hands out perfect _______.

People recognised God’s _____ but didn’t repent.

Don’t _____ when Jesus is returning.

Babylon is the focus of God’s _________.

Get right with God before it’s too late.

“Dear Jesus,
I am sorry I have rejected your loving rule.
Thank you for taking my punishment at the cross.
Please help me to worship you all my days.
Amen.”

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 $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.Olimometer 2.52

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!
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