Coming up this weekend 21st January 2024

This Sunday Trevor Lucas will be speaking to us on the topic, ‘God of Mercy, God of Judgement, God of Justice’ and will be bringing us a survey of these themes from the Old Testament books of 2 Kings, Isaiah and Nahum.

If you can’t join us in person, then connect with us by livestream by going to watch.jamberooanglican.com or follow us on Facebook.

Our weekly Question Time has the following questions that Jodie will be answering:

1 Did God create demons?
2 Did God the father suffer on the cross?

There’s still time to add a few to this list, so email us with your questions and Jodie will start preparing answers!

After church we’ll have brunch in the morning and dinner in the evening, so there’s plenty of time to chat and chew, together!

See you on Sunday, God willing!

Church News for the week beginning Sunday 14th January 2024

OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear Moussa Ghazal speak to us on the topic ‘The Servant King’ from Matthew 20:17-28. He’ll also be sharing with us about his ministry on the campus of Sydney University.

YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS IN HOLIDAYS

Our normal midweek weekly groups for children and youth are taking a break over Christmas and will resume late January. But remember, every Sunday’s perfect for people of all ages and stages!

JANUARY PREACHERS

In January we welcome to our pulpit Moussa Ghazal (14th January), Trevor Lucas (21st January) and Andy McPhail (28th January).

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) next weekend, 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am 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.

JANUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month for January is ‘Do More Better’ by Tim Challies. Physical copies are available at our bookstall or buy online at: wanderingbookseller.com.au

SUPPORT MOUSSA

To subscribe to Moussa’s supporters’ email and to find out more about other ways to support him and his ministry, email him at moussa277@gmail.com

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.

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: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

How To Be Free

One of the most amazing things about being a Christian is that we are saved by God’s free gift of grace, and not by what we’ve done.

But the problem is that this clashes with our performance-based world, in which we love to reward achievement and success.

We love to be able to point to our wins and, ultimately, to justify ourselves by all the good things we’ve done.

Yet, if it was possible for us to achieve enough to save ourselves from God’s righteous anger, then Jesus wouldn’t have needed to die for us.

But Jesus had to die because we were helpless: and so that’s why we can only, ever, be saved by free grace—God’s rich mercy.

However it was only a short time after Jesus died that some of his redeemed people felt the need to reintroduce some of the Old Testament laws into the New Testament life.

The most obvious of these were related to the infamous Jewish customs of food laws (not eating with non-Jews) and circumcision (a physical ‘badge’ for men.)

But the Apostle Paul, who was converted to Christ after a life as a zealous Jew, saw that a return to this legalistic past was to deny the riches of the mercy of Jesus, and to instead return to the failed religion of the past.

Some did this because they wanted a clear way to show their own contribution to their faith, as some sort of visible guarantee or tangible achievement.

Yet, to do that was only to return to slavery, even though they had been freed by Jesus.

This is the message at the heart of Paul’s letter to the churches in Galatia, and it’s a timely reminder to embrace the rich mercy of Christ and celebrate true freedom.

JODIE McNEILL 

Coming up this weekend 14th January 2024

This Sunday Moussa Ghazal will be speaking to us from Matthew 20:17-28 on the topic, ‘The Servant King.’ he will also be sharing with us about his student ministry and helping us know how to best pray for him and support him.

If you can’t join us in person, then connect with us by livestream by going to watch.jamberooanglican.com or follow us on Facebook.

Our weekly Question Time resumes this Sunday, and Jodie’s already preparing answers to these questions:

1 Why did we sing “Hail the Son of Righteousness” not “Sun?”
2 Why do some Bible translations leave out Matthew 17:21?
3 Are angels and demons eternal?
4 Do seraphim and cherubim ever come down to earth?
5 Can we please have Bibles available in church?

There’s still time to add a few to the list, so email us with your questions.

After church we’ll have brunch in the morning and dinner in the evening, so there’s plenty of time to chat and chew, together!

See you on Sunday, God willing!

Why Reach Globally?

If we are so eager to grow our church in Jamberoo, then why would we bother focusing on reaching people globally?

Well, in one sense, the answer is simple: Jesus tells us to, “go and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19), and so we’re simply doing what he tells us to do.

That’s why we partner with the Church Missionary Society (best known as ‘CMS’) and it’s why several of our church members attend the week-long ‘CMS Summer School’ conference in Katoomba this week.

It’s also why we love to financially support people who have gone out from our local churches to tell people around the world how to follow Jesus and why it matters.

But another thing Jesus told us was that, “it is more blessed to give than to receive,” (Acts 20:35) and it often turns out that churches with a focus on world mission get revved up for sharing the good news of Jesus with their local area.

This is something I personally experience each year when I head up to the Blue Mountains for this conference, for as we pray that the people of the world would know Jesus, it enthuses me to pray the same for the people in our own village, valley and region.

As our heart for world evangelism beats a bit faster, it helps us see the deep need for people to share our certainty for eternity that can be found only in Jesus Christ—no matter where they live on the globe.

Then as we look locally, we see opportunities for relational evangelism, as we seek to be Christ’s ambassadors to the precious people God has placed before us, as he makes his appeal through us..

JODIE McNEILL

Church News for the week beginning Sunday 7th January 2024

OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear Brad Vidilini speak to us on the topic ‘What the Lord Requires of you’ from Micah 1:1-7:20

YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS IN HOLIDAYS

Our normal midweek weekly groups for children and youth are taking a break over Christmas and will resume late January. But remember, every Sunday’s perfect for people of all ages and stages!

JANUARY PREACHERS

In January we welcome to our pulpit Brad Vidilini (7th January), Moussa Ghazal (14th January), Trevor Lucas (21st January) and Andy McPhail (28th January).

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) on the third weekend of 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am 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.

JANUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month for January is ‘Do More Better’ by Tim Challies. Physical copies are available at our bookstall or buy online at: wanderingbookseller.com.au

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.

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: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Coming up this weekend 7th January 2024

Happy New Year!

This week Brad Vidilini will be speaking on the whole book of Micah, with the topic, ‘What the Lord requires of you.’

If you can’t join us in person, then connect with us by livestream by going to watch.jamberooanglican.com or follow us on Facebook.

We’ll be taking a break from our weekly Question Time until mid-January, but feel free to keep asking your questions so Jodie can answer them when we start again.

After church we’ll have brunch in the morning and dinner in the evening, so there’s plenty of time to chat and chew, together!

See you on Sunday, God willing!

Church News for the Week beginning 31st December 2023

OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear Grahame Scarratt speak to us on the topic ‘Noah and the Gospel’ from Genesis 6:1-22.

YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS IN HOLIDAYS

Our normal midweek weekly groups for children and youth are taking a break over Christmas and will resume late January. But remember, every Sunday’s perfect for people of all ages and stages!

SUMMER PREACHERS

Over Summer we welcome to our pulpit Grahame Scarratt (31st December), Brad Vidilini (7th January), Moussa Ghazal (14th January), Trevor Lucas (21st January) and Andy McPhail (28th January).

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) on the third weekend of 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am 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.

JANUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month for January is ‘Do More Better’ by Tim Challies. Physical copies are available at our bookstall or buy online at: wanderingbookseller.com.au

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5513.00, leaving a gap of $787.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $54,600. Compared to that total we received $48,216, leaving a gap of $6,384.

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: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Find Life This Summer

The summer holidays are generally a good time for some R&R: get-togethers with friends and family, time at the beach, backyard cricket and time off work are just some of the reasons we love summer. 

But the summer break is also a time for a third R: Reflection. 

As we look toward the year ahead, we also reflect on the year that’s been, with all its ups and downs.

We reflect on life’s big questions: what we’re doing with our lives, and who or what we are living for. 

Each summer, thousands of tourists come to the Kiama area for a holiday and together with locals, they pack out the cafes and beaches in town, as well as the surrounding area. 

And each summer, a few dozen Christians from Sydney come to our area to talk to people about Jesus, as part of the ‘Summerlife’ (Kiama Beach Mission) team from the 28th December to the 5th January. 

The goal is to get people to spend time chatting and reflecting on who Jesus is, and what he’s done for them, and we look forward to seeing how the Holy Spirit works amongst these chats. 

For us at Jamberoo, there are two things we can do to support this mission.

Firstly, we can pray for the team as they seek to lead people to Christ through conversations.

Secondly, as the team members encourage contacts to head along to a local church, then you could be the local person who they can connect with.

So, be praying, and also head down to Surf Beach and support the team each day at either 1pm or 6pm.

It would be such a great encouragement to the team to see you, and it would be a terrific way for Jamberoo Anglican to be amongst our community. 

BRAD VIDILINI

Coming up this weekend 31st December 2023

This week we welcome as special guest preacher Grahame Scarratt who will be speaking to us on ‘Noah and the Gospel’ from Genesis 6:1-22, as he helps us see how wonderfully the Old Testament connects with the New, and the unfolding message of Jesus in the whole Bible.

If you can’t join us in person, then connect with us by livestream by going to watch.jamberooanglican.com or follow us on Facebook.

We’ll be taking a break from our weekly Question Time until mid-January, but feel free to keep asking your questions so Jodie can answer them when we start again.

After church we’ll have brunch in the morning and dinner in the evening, so there’s plenty of time to chat and chew, together!

See you on Sunday, God willing!