This weekend we have our very own Matt Bartlett speaking to us from Psalm 78 about ‘Intergenerational Life’.
Join us Saturday at 5pm and dinner afterwards, followed by our ‘Nightlife’ fun from 8pm! Or Sunday morning at 9am, followed by morning tea and hot espresso! We can’t wait to see you!
If you have any questions, simply fill out a response slip during the service, email us at office@jamberooanglican.com or send an SMS to 0439 890 086. We will be taking a break from our regular Q&A segment this week as our minister, Jodie McNeill, is away.
Our kids’ ministry volunteers will be taking a break over the school holidays, but we’ll still have a program for kids during just the sermon time at our services. The creche room will be available for the kids during the service. The livestream will continue on the TV in the hall so if you need to stay with your child, you won’t miss out on church.
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We’re looking for an Operations Minister to join our ministry team!
This religious practitioner position is a developing, part-time role to assist the Senior Minister in pastoral care, small group leadership, membership integration, communications, technology management, outreach, higher-level administration support, event management, church services, and occasional preaching and teaching, with an overall focus on developing and building processes, systems, policies and teams in our growing church, to the glory of God.
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Over this Easter weekend Jodie McNeill will be preaching in a two-part series on Psalm 22, about ‘Despair and Deliverence‘, with the Good Friday talk on ‘Despair’ and the weekend talk on ‘Deliverance’.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month for April is Bush Church Aid (BCA). To find out more about how to personally partner visit www.bushchurchaid.com.au.
HOLIDAY SERVICES
Next weekend 10-11 April, we will be hearing Matt Bartlett speak on Psalm 78 about ‘Intergenerational Life‘. The weekend after, special guest Ben Pfahlert will be speaking from Mark 8:27-38 on the topic, ‘Don’t Waste Your Life’.
GONG MEN’S DAY
We’re getting the lads together for God’s word and a great gathering! Saturday morning 5th June at Dapto. Special guest speaker: Andrew Heard. Save the date. Not to be missed.
NEW GIVING BUDGET AND TARGET
Our Parish Council decided to increase our budget and target to fund a new staff position. Our new budget is $4,100 per week, and our new target is $4,600. We praise God that we’ve already reached the new budget in March, and that we’re half way to the new target!
NEW OPERATIONS MINISTER
Our Parish Council decided this week that we’re going to invite an ‘Operations Minister’ to join our team in the coming months. Pray we find the right person and that we can raise the funds to support them.
DINNER AND COFFEE MONEY
We’ve decided not to collect cash for dinner or coffee anymore, but to cover the costs from the general giving. Enjoy!
SUBSCRIBE TO VIMEO
We’re now using Vimeo as our main platform for broadcasting our church services… but will still be sending the video to Facebook Live as well. Go to watch.jamberooanglican.com to visit our Vimeo page… and why not hit ‘subscribe’ to make it easier to watch us each week?
KYCK CONFERENCE
Our youth are heading to the Kyck conference in the Blue Mountains on 16-18 April. Tickets and details coming soon.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
To watch videos of our Bible talks and other memories of our church, visit youtube.jamberooanglican.com and be sure to subscribe to our channel!
FAMILY NEWS
BIRTHDAYS 8th Verlee Kirkness
ANNIVERSARIES 6th Jonno & Jessie Nicholls
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 $289,623, leaving a gap of $-16,623.
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: 10081274. BSB: 062562.
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Even though some experts doubt whether he really rose from the dead, almost all, credible historians agree that Jesus of Nazareth was executed on a Roman Cross in Jerusalem, around 30 AD.
Yet, not all Christians agree about why he died.
Some say that he was killed by the religious rulers because his example and teaching of love were a threat to their system.
Others say that he died because he wanted to prove how much he really loves us, as the ultimate gift to humanity.
But in the end, we don’t need someone to tell us how to love, or someone to show us how to love, or even someone to prove his love for us.
Our big problem is that we’re all born as natural enemies of God, and unless someone deals with God’s anger for us, then we’re headed to Hell.
That’s why Jesus died for us: to take upon himself the anger that God had for us, so that we might now be forgiven by him and made his friends, if we trust in him as our loving ruler.
It’s pretty full on… but that’s the heart of Easter!
And by rising from the dead, Jesus proved he really did what his Father in heaven sent him to do.
As we read in Romans chapter 5:
When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:6-8)
That’s why Good Friday is ‘good’… and why we can truly wish each other a ‘Happy Easter!’
JODIE McNEILL
(Credit: Claudio Ungari via Flickr)
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Our Good Friday service is at 9am and Jodie McNeill will be speaking the first sermon in a two-part series over the Easter weekend. We will be looking at Psalm 22 and discussing ‘Despair and Deliverance‘. Part two will be at our regular Saturday 5pm and Sunday 9am services.
If you have any questions, simply fill out a response slip during the service, email us at office@jamberooanglican.com or send an SMS to 0439 890 086. Here are the questions Jodie plans to answer this weekend:
1 What does Jeremiah 31:34 mean for teaching ministry in the new covenant? 2 Since all of us would have obeyed Satan in Eden, were all people sinful before the Fall? 3 Do we go straight to heaven when we die or do we wait until Jesus returns? 4 Why don’t Jews sacrifice animals today to deal with their sins? 5 What was Jesus thinking about when he prayed at Gethsemane? 6 Did Jesus die to save us or to restore our relationship with the Father?
Our kids’ ministry volunteers will be taking a break over the school holidays, but we’ll still have a program for kids during just the sermon time at our services. The creche room will be available for the kids during the service. The livestream will continue on the TV in the hall so if you need to stay with your child, you won’t miss out on church.
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This weekend we will be looking at chapters nine and ten of 1 Kings as Jodie McNeill teaches us about ‘Warning, wisdom and wealth‘.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month for March is CMS. To find out more about how to personally partner visit www.cms.org.au.
EASTER SERVICES
In addition to our normal weekend services on Saturday night and Sunday morning, we would love you to also join us for a special Good Friday service at 9am. Jodie will be preaching a special two-part series on Psalm 22 called ‘Despair and Deliverance’.
GONG MEN’S DAY
We’re getting the lads together for God’s word and a great gathering! Saturday morning 5th June at Dapto. Special guest speaker: Andrew Heard. Save the date. Not to be missed.
SUBSCRIBE TO VIMEO
We’re now using Vimeo as our main platform for broadcasting our church services… but will still be sending the video to Facebook Live as well. Go to watch.jamberooanglican.com to visit our Vimeo page… and why not hit ‘subscribe’ to make it easier to watch us each week?
CHILD SAFETY
We’ve now installed a new fence across the front of the lawn, so our kids will be even safer than before. To help keep our kids safe, please keep our gates closed before and after church, as well as other events where younger people are present.
KYCK CONFERENCE
Our youth are heading to the Kyck conference in the Blue Mountains on 16-18 April. More details expected next week.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
To watch videos of our Bible talks and other memories of our church, visit youtube.jamberooanglican.com and be sure to subscribe to our channel!
FAMILY NEWS
BIRTHDAYS 28th Sachin Hall
ANNIVERSARIES 31st Dave & Emma Brennan
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 $289,623, leaving a gap of $-16,623.
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: 10081274. BSB: 062562.
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The floods this week are totally different to the flood that the Lord sent at the time of Noah.
That flood was a specific act of judgement by God on a world that had become “consistently and totally evil” (Genesis 6:5) and was “corrupt and filled with violence (Genesis 6:11).
But, even as he acted to wipe out a generation of humans, he showed mercy upon Noah and his family, giving him a warning and a way to be saved.
But after that flood, God promised that, “Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth.” (Genesis 9:11)
But, humans have continued to rebel against God, but the solution is different: God shows his love for us by placing his anger upon Jesus instead of his followers who seek his mercy:
“For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us. Christ died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live with him forever.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10)
Which means that devastating floods are not to be considered as an act of judgement upon our world, but instead, a warning to repent.
For, when his followers asked him to explain why a disaster had struck, Jesus said:
“Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?… Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.” (Luke 13:2-3)
Whether it’s drought, bushfire, flood or pandemic, these disasters are an important time for us all to consider Christ in the crisis.
As we pray for the recovery of our land from these devastating floods, let us also pray that through this disaster might be a fresh opportunity for people to find eternal comfort and security in Christ Jesus.
JODIE McNEILL
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Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $273,000. Compared to that total we received $289,623, leaving a gap of $-16,623.
