Church News for the week beginning 15th December

OUR BIBLE TALK

This week, Trevor Lucas will be speaking from Hebrews 5 & 6 about growing in spiritual maturity, asking the question ‘Are We There Yet?’.

Next week we will hear from the Jodie on the last sermon from our series on Acts, ‘Launching the Church’ as we look at the surprising journey into Rome, and the beginning of the end of Paul’s ministry in the new era of the church.

MISSION OF THE MONTH

Our mission of the month is Scripture in Schools (SRE). You can support the SRE ministry by donating and buying from the mission table in the hall.

UPCOMING ROSTERS

Please advise us of any unavailabilities for the months of January and February via Elvanto or your response slip as new rosters will be out soon.

WORKING BEE

Grounds preparation for the upcoming Christmas services will be on Saturday 21 December from 8am. Everyone welcome to come and get our grounds looking awesome for the festive season.

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

This year we will be having our first-in-a-long-time Christmas Eve service! Come join us at 6pm on our new church lawn for a free sausage sizzle, then an open-air night of carols and fellowship. Our regular Christmas day service will be at 9am in the church with a service of Holy Communion with traditional hymns and readings.

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.