Church news for the week beginning 23rd April 2023

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jacob Mierendorff preaches to us from Proverbs on the topic of ‘Wisdom’.

KYCK

Our youth are heading away for the KYCK conference on the weekend of 28-30th April. For information contact Brad Vidilini.

NOURISH WOMEN

Nourish normally meets Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30am in the church hall, but is taking a break until 27th April.

KIDS AND YOUTH

Our Friday Spark and Youth programs will be taking a over the school holidays. Youth starts up again with KYCK on 28th April. Spark starts up again on 5th May. We’ll continue to have a kids’ talk during our normal Sunday services during the holidays.

AFRICA MINISTRY

Jodie and Mandy are serving at the Gafcon Kigali conference in Rwanda with Anglican leaders from over 40 countries, followed by a ministry visit to Tanzania. Find out more at gafcon23.org

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

APRIL BOOKS OF THE MONTH

‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by John Bunyan, AND ‘Little Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Helen L. Taylor.

This month we have two books! This way experienced and younger readers can enjoy this month’s book.

The Pilgrim’s Progress is a vividly imagined allegory that follows the adventures of a young everyman named Christian as he undertakes the perilous journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.

The Little Pilgrim’s Progress takes John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and simplifies the vocabulary and concepts for young readers, while keeping the storyline intact.

We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

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 NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

The Power of God

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Sometimes it’s easy to reduce our idea of God so that it fits comfortably in our brains.

It’s somewhat understandable, because our brains cannot fully comprehend all of God’s characteristics. It’s why we need to consistently read the Bible to remind ourselves that God is bigger and better than we could ever imagine.

One aspect of God’s character that is easy to underestimate is his power.

There’s so much that could be said about his power, but I think the story of the Exodus is a great glimpse into the unstoppable, irresistible power of God.

God’s people were enslaved by Egypt, the great superpower at the time. They cried out to God for deliverance from their oppression, and the Lord heard them.

Pharaoh, the dictator of Egypt, stubbornly refused God’s decree to let his people go.

God gave Pharoah chance after chance to submit to him, and displayed his power through 10 plagues.

Eventually, Pharoah, the powerful man in the world at the time, had no choice but to acknowledge God’s overwhelming power.

Proverbs 21:1 says The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

It’s easy to look at today’s world and worry for the future of our country, our churches and our families.

But God is still on the throne.

Which is why Paul confidently writes in Romans 8:38-39: For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus is powerful. Powerful enough that he defeated death for us.

Powerful enough for us to boldly proclaim his word.

Next time you talk to God, why not praise him for his power over evil, tyranny, death, and everything else in creation?

Because he deserves everlasting praise.

BRAD VIDILINI

Coming up this Sunday 23rd April 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jacob Mierendorff preaches to us from Proverbs on the topic of ‘Wisdom’.

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Church news for the week beginning 16th April 2023 

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Brad Vidilini preaches to us from Luke 12:22-34 on ‘Seek the Kingdom’.

KYCK

Our youth are heading away for the KYCK conference on the weekend of 28-30th April. For information contact Brad Vidilini.

NOURISH WOMEN

Nourish normally meets Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30am in the church hall, but is taking a break until 27th April.

KIDS AND YOUTH

Our Friday Spark and Youth programs will be taking a break until 28th April. We’ll continue to have a kids’ talk during our normal Sunday services during the holidays.

AFRICA MINISTRY

Jodie and Mandy are serving at the Gafcon Kigali conference in Rwanda with Anglican leaders from over 40 countries, followed by a ministry visit to Tanzania. Find out more at gafcon23.org

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

APRIL BOOKS OF THE MONTH

‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by John Bunyan, AND ‘Little Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Helen L. Taylor.

This month we have two books! This way experienced and younger readers can enjoy this month’s book.

The Pilgrim’s Progress is a vividly imagined allegory that follows the adventures of a young everyman named Christian as he undertakes the perilous journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.

The Little Pilgrim’s Progress takes John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and simplifies the vocabulary and concepts for young readers, while keeping the storyline intact.

We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

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 NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Renewal in Rwanda

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Next week’s Gafcon Conference in Kigali, Rwanda is shaping up to be a momentous occasion in the history of global Anglicanism, as we come together to prayerfully chart a renewed course for the church.

The five-day conference will include around 1300 people from over 50 nations, as we come together to prayerfully depend on the Holy Spirit as we gather to hear God’s word.

Each day will have a special time of repentance, as we gather to express our grief and remorse at how many within our church have wandered from God’s way and have departed from the truth of his word.

Some Anglicans leaders have chosen to bless ways of living that God has told us to reject, and this means that many parishioners and pastors have been forced to submit to bishops who have failed to accept the word of God in all its fulness.

That’s why we need to gather to ask forgiveness for our church, and to seek God’s wisdom about the future for Anglicanism, both globally and locally.

Mandy and I are humbled to be representing our church in Jamberoo, as we participate with the Australian contingent, and we pray that the Lord will give us opportunities to serve and encourage many others during the week.

Please pray for great wisdom for all the delegates as we seek to come to a common mind about the best form of the future leadership of the global Anglican church.

But above all, pray that this conference will lead us to glorify God by proclaiming Christ faithfully, so that everyone will hear God’s call to repent and believe in Jesus as Lord.

To find out more about the conference, and to find a link to the livestream, visit www.gafcon23.org 

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this Sunday 16th April 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Brad Vidilini preaches to us from Luke 12:22-34 on ‘Seek the Kingdom’.

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Good Friday – The Injustice of the Crucifixion – Isaiah 52:13-53:12 – Jodie McNeill – 7 April 2023

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Busted for something that you didn’t do?

We love _______ and hate injustice

The Isaiah _______ Songs are about Jesus

_______ will end in triumph

His _____ will lead to amazement

Don’t wait till you ___ to act like Jesus is king

We know the _____ about the Servant of the Lord

We ________ him

Jesus was punished for ___ sins, not his

We deserve __________

Jesus didn’t try and ____ the injustice

The most ________ man who ever lived

God always _______ for Jesus to die

The great exchange: his ____ for ours

Jesus didn’t stay ____

It was the greatest _______ of all time

Dear Jesus,

I’m sorry I rejected you.

Thank you for dying in my place.

Help me to trust you forever.

Amen.

The best Good Friday ever

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Church news for the week beginning 2nd April 2023

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as two of our Moore College students preach to us!

Jarrod Nangle will be preaching to us from Colossians 1:15-23 on ’The Reconciling Jesus’ at our 9 am service.

Micah Beel will be preaching to us from John 6:25-59 on ‘Jesus the Bread of Life’ at our 4 pm service.

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE

Please join us on 7th April at 9 am for our Good Friday service as we remember the death of Jesus. We will be sharing hot cross buns together in the hall after the service.

ALIVE DAY!

Join us on 9th April at 9 am for our combined Easter Sunday outdoor service. We will be eating bacon and egg rolls for brunch after the service. Please invite your friends and family along!

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

APRIL BOOKS OF THE MONTH

‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by John Bunyan, AND ‘Little Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Helen L. Taylor.

This month we have two books! This way experienced and younger readers can enjoy this month’s book.

The Pilgrim’s Progress is a vividly imagined allegory that follows the adventures of a young everyman named Christian as he undertakes the perilous journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.

The Little Pilgrim’s Progress takes John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and simplifies the vocabulary and concepts for young readers, while keeping the storyline intact.

We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

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 NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Open Day

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The most controversial thing about Easter is not that Jesus died… but that he came back to life.

That’s why our Easter campaign this year is called ‘Open Day,’ as we highlight Jesus’ open grave… for he is risen, hallelujah!

Many people are not open to the resurrection of Jesus because it seems so unusual—after all, how many times have you gone to a funeral to have the dead body rise from the grave?

Yet, the resurrection is the very thing that makes Easter valuable.

For, if Jesus only died and stayed dead, then the life of Jesus would offer us little more than an impossibly-difficult character to try and imitate.

Plus, when we are unable to keep Jesus’ impossible standard of perfection, we’d be crushed by our failure.

But worst of all, without the open grave, all of the promises of Jesus would fail.

For he made it clear that he would be betrayed, be killed, “but three days later he will rise from the dead.” (Mark 9:31).

What’s more, as the Apostle Paul observed:

“…if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost! And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.” (1 Corinthians 15:17-19)

We must be open to the truth about the open grave, for it is only by Jesus rising from the dead that we can have any real hope in eternity.

If the grave is not open, then neither is heaven.

That’s why this Easter we’re encouraging people to be open to the idea that Jesus’ grave was open… and that people would be open to the idea of following the risen and living Jesus.

Jesus’ grave is open… are you?

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this Sunday 2nd April 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as two of our Moore College students preach to us!

Jarod Nangle will be preaching to us from Colossians 1:15-23 at our 9 am service.

Micah Beel will be preaching to us from John 6:25-59 at our 4 pm service.

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!