Church News for the week beginning 24th November
OUR BIBLE TALK
This week in our series on Acts, ‘Launching the Church‘, we will see through chapters 20 & 21 the evidence of a Pastor’s heart in Paul as he continues to teach the word of the Lord.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month is CMS. Donate and buy from the mission table to help support our CMS partners.
VISION GATHERING
Please plan to join us on Saturday 30th November at 8am to 11am for our final Vision Gathering for the year. We’ll be prayerfully planning for our ministries for 2020 and we’d love everyone to join us.
RAY SPROULE’S FUNERAL
A funeral service for Ray will be held this Monday 25th November at 11am at Jamberoo Anglican Church, followed by refreshments by the Ladies’ Guild.
CLEANING AND MOWING ROSTER
Are you able to help with mowing and cleaning? Please let us know via response slip or email.
BOOKSHOP FEEDBACK
We’d love to hear your feedback about the value of our bookshop to our church ministry. Let us know via response slip or email.
LADIES GUILD
The next Ladies Guild meeting will be on Saturday December 14th at 3pm. All the youth are also invited as it will be a planning meeting for our Christmas Eve service on the lawn.
INTER-CHURCH CAROLS
Be sure to save Tuesday 10th December in your diaries for our famous ‘Carols in the Park’ event in Reid Park at 6.30pm.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
This year we will be having our first-in-a-long-time Christmas Eve service! Come join us at 6:00pm on our new church lawn for a night of carols and fellowship. Includes a free sausage sizzle! Our regular Christmas day service will be at 9am in the church.
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 $5675.00, leaving a gap of $625.00. 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.