Church news for the week beginning 16th December 2017

Community Carols Celebration tonight!

We’d love you to join us tonight at 5pm for our Community Carols Celebration! Something for all ages, with a meal afterwards. Invite your friends for this great night of singing and sharing about the saviour of the world!

Sunday’s Bible Talk

This Sunday, Simon Chaplin will speak at our 8am service on the topic “The Genealogy of Jesus” from Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 to 17.

Mission of the month: Special Religious Education (SRE)

SRE is our mission of the month. Support this ministry through the ‘Mission Table’ in the Hall.

Christmas Day at 9.30am

Join us at the special time of 9.30am on Christmas Day for an all-age, community celebration of the birth of Jesus!

New Rosters

New rosters are out now. If you need a paper version, grab one from the information table, or otherwise log onto www.jamberooanglican.net to see what dates and roles you are scheduled for.

Children’s and youth programs in holidays

During school holidays our normal youth program will take a break until Term 1, 2018. The children’s program during the 5pm service will however continue during the holidays.

Summer Sermons

During the five weekends after Christmas, we will be hearing from a range of local and guest preachers on a variety of topics, before we commence a new sermon series in Term One.

 

Giving update

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. In the last calendar month, our average weekly giving was $5509.00, leaving a gap of $791.00.

Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $273,000. Compared to that total we received $245,588, leaving a gap of $27,412.

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 .