Church News for the week beginning 21st June

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OUR BIBLE TALK

This week we will hear from Graham Errington as he speaks from Luke 16:19-31 about the ‘Rich Man and Lazarus‘. If you can’t make it to church in person, 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

The furniture is almost all installed, and we are now awaiting delivery of the appliances. We’ve now received $14,000 in donations, and we’re only short $2,000 in total, praise God. Can you help us raise the final amount before we cook our first dinner?

GAFCON AUSTRALASIA CELEBRATION

We are hosting a global Anglican event from our church this 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!

FAMILY NEWS

BIRTHDAYS:
20th Anita Lovell
21st Amanda Kyngdon
25th Jon Thompson
25th Karen Gilmore

ANNIVERSARIES:
22nd Matt & Storm Cignarella

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 $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.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.

Will you pray with us?

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Would you consider joining us for prayer one morning per week for just half an hour?

We are praying that the Lord will pour out his Holy Spirit upon our village, valley, and the whole of the Illawarra and beyond… and it is good to bow our knees, together, to do this.

Thanks to Zoom, we can do this easily by connecting at zoom.jamberooanglican.com any morning (except Sunday) at 7am.

We read some chapters from the Bible and we pray… and it’s over in under half an hour.

You don’t need to turn on your Zoom camera, so you can join us in your pyjamas or even when you’re commuting!

For some of us it is early, but it is something that is so important that it’s worth getting out of bed for.

You don’t need to read anything, nor do you need to say anything: you can just simply listen and pray along with those who are speaking.

Yes, we meet and pray in our church services, in our small groups, and on our own… but this is something that is a bold statement of our devotion to God as a church, pleading with him to bring great revival to our land.

Imagine if Jamberoo had a reputation for being a Christian village!

Imagine if our church was packed to the rafters with people eager to hear God’s word and love and serve his world!

Let’s do more than imagine… let’s pray!

The Apostle Paul said in Colossians 4, “Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.”

JODIE McNEILL

(Photo Flickr: t-bet)

Coming up this weekend 20-21 June

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OUR DOORS ARE OPEN!

Join us on Saturdays at 5pm, followed by dinner or Sundays at 9am, followed by morning tea!

This week we will hear Graham Errington speak from the books of Leviticus and Luke about the ‘Rich Man and Lazarus‘.

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch our livestream over at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you have any questions about our last series on the book of Revelation 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 – 9: Revealing hope – Revelation 21-22 Jodie McNeill 13-14th June 2020

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A deep longing for something better.

There is ____ because Jesus has defeated evil.

God is _______ the people.

The promise of a new _______ is trustworthy and true.

We must remain ________ to Jesus.

The new Jerusalem is _________.

All God’s promises are _________ in this city.

The city is _______!

There’s no ______ in the new Jerusalem.

There is nothing ______ in the city of God.

Sin and _____ is no more.

We will see Jesus ____ to face.

Jesus is ______ soon.

Come.

Come, Lord Jesus.

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Church News for the week beginning 14th June

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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 $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.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

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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

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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

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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.

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Church News for the week beginning 7th June

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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 $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.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

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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