This weekend we Jodie leads us from Ephesians chapter six as we learn about ‘Spiritual Warfare‘.
SPECIAL MEMBER’S MEETING
Our Parish Council decided that it would like to launch an OHSC (Outside of Hours School Care) ministry at our church, but first it wants the consent of a special general meeting of our parish. Please come along and find out more about the proposed ministry and help us make this decision. The meeting will be held in the church hall this Tuesday 1st December at 7pm.
CHURCH LOAN
Our church intends to borrow $70,000 for the purpose of improvements to our hall and grounds, including patio enclosure, outdoor equipment, safety improvements and professional fees so that our facilities might be made suitable for a potential out of hours school care ministry. To find out more please contact one of our Wardens. Any formal objections must be lodged with The Secretary, Sydney Anglican Loans, PO Box Q190 QVB Post Office NSW 1230 by 6th December 2020.
SUMMER YOUTH CAMP
Our youth are heading off to Burrill Pines for our kickoff camp on 29-31 January, the first weekend of Term One next year! Put the date in your diary, ask all your friends, and get ready for an awesome weekend of growing together in God. Details coming soon.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Join us on Christmas Eve for ‘Churchill Carols’, as we bring our village and valley together on our church lawn for two, identical carol services (with free sausage sizzle) at 5:30pm and 7:30pm on 24th December. Free tickets must be booked online at www.jamberooanglican.com to help keep us Covid-safe. Our regular ‘Carols in the Park’ has been cancelled by the Jamberoo Interchurch Committee.
MORNING PRAYER DAILY
Join us for Morning Prayer at 7am every morning (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com for a half-hour of prayer and Bible reading.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month is CMS. To support this great ministry, buy and donate from the mission table in the hall. Check out their ministry atwww.cms.org.au.
TOYS N’ TUCKER
Bring along toys and non-perishable food so we can get it to those in need this Christmas through the ministry of Anglicare.
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 29th Ava Brennan 1st Ella North
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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This weekend we Jodie leads us from Ephesians chapter six as we learn about ‘Spiritual Warfare‘. This is the bit where we learn about the ‘armour of God’… and it’s possible you might even see some real armour at church this weekend!
To catch up on previous sermons in our series ‘Ephesians: United with Christ’, head to our Youtube channel youtube.jamberooanglican.com.
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 and Jodie would love to answer them this weekend during our services.
Here are the questions coming up this weekend:
1 If the husband won’t die for his wife, does she still need to submit to him 2 Is there ever an age when a person can stop obeying their parent? 3 Should an adult desire to become a child again? 4 If an employer is not treating an employee right, should that employee still obey? 5 Since the promised land is the New Jerusalem, why do some Christians believe that modern Jews have a claim to Palestine? 6 When Matthew 25:30 refers to weeping and gnashing of teeth is it speaking about Hell? 7 How should Christian parents portray Santa to our children? 8 Will we know everything when we get to Heaven?
Join us on Saturday at 5pm where we will have fellowship over dinner afterwards, or Sunday at 9am followed by morning tea and tasty espresso! We have a kids program at both services and would love for you to be in fellowship with us.
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Over the past few months we’ve changed the way we do our church services to allow everyone, of all ages, to stay together for the first half of church.
We have done this deliberately and strategically because we believe that church is best when old and young people grow together.
For our church, it means that everyone of all ages will be together for three of our four songs, for all our Bible readings, for our public prayer, for question time, for our creed and confession, for the Lord’s Supper, for updates and interviews, and for our church news (which include birthday shoutouts!)
During this time, our younger members will truly experience church with the rest of our congregation, and they will grow up richly experiencing church as a normal part of their Christian life.
At the same time, since our children learn in a way that’s different to teens and adults, we provide a special program for the final 45 minutes of both church services, where we teach and nurture them in a way that is best for their learning and growth.
We also know that there are benefits in drawing together similar people from time to time to focus on their special opportunities and needs, such as our youth group each Saturday after dinner, and various men’s and women’s ministries in our parish.
And we know that doing church intergenerationally is good and natural because when Paul wanted to get a message to the kids in the church at Ephesus, he directly addressed them in his letter, knowing they’d be in church when his letter was read (Ephesians 6:1).
That’s why our church loves being together as much as possible, as our children and adults learn and grow from each other, united in Christ.
JODIE McNEILL
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This weekend we Jodie leads us from the beginning of Ephesians chapter six in a sermon called ‘Children and Slaves‘.
SPECIAL MEMBER’S MEETING
Our Parish Council decided last week that it would like to launch an OHSC (Outside of Hours School Care) ministry at our church, but first it wants the consent of a special general meeting of our parish. Please come along and find out more about the proposed ministry and help us make this decision. The meeting will be held in the church hall on Tuesday 1st December at 7pm.
CHURCH LOAN
Our church intends to borrow $70,000 for the purpose of improvements to our hall and grounds, including patio enclosure, outdoor equipment, safety improvements and professional fees so that our facilities might be made suitable for a potential out of hours school care ministry. To find out more please contact one of our Wardens. Any formal objections must be lodged with The Secretary, Sydney Anglican Loans, PO Box Q190 QVB Post Office NSW 1230 by 6th December 2020.
YOUTH CAMP
Our youth are heading off to Burrill Pines for our kickoff camp on 29-31 January, the first weekend of Term One next year! Put the date in your diary, ask all your friends, and get ready for an awesome weekend of growing together in God.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Our Interchurch Carols in the Park is not running this year, but we’re holding a special open-air Christmas Eve service here on our church grounds. Keep the night free and start to invite everyone you know!
FIT FOR PURPOSE
This Wednesday 25th November our men’s group is meeting 8-10:30am for fellowship and ground maintenance. Speak to Graham 0430 043 765.
MORNING PRAYER DAILY
Join us for Morning Prayer at 7am every morning (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com for a half-hour of prayer and Bible reading.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
Our mission of the month is CMS. To support this great ministry, buy and donate from the mission table in the hall. Check out their ministry atwww.cms.org.au.
TOYS N’ TUCKER
Bring along toys and non-perishable food so we can get it to those in need this Christmas through the ministry of Anglicare.
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 23rd Bec Watson 26th Philippa Cleall
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 ministry of a mother to her children is not only a valuable role, it is a strategic opportunity to share the wonderful news of Jesus to a world that is lost without him.
For this reason, we applied to the Mothers Union Sydney for a special grant to fund an all-new position of ‘Mother’s Minister’, and here’s how we described our vision:
We wish to employ a mature and experienced Christian mother to help strengthen and support new and younger mothers in our church to be godly wives who serve their husbands as they bring up their children in the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
They will teach how to develop Christian homes as a place for nurturing children, which will then be a natural environment to invite unbelievers in their networks to witness the outworking of the Word of God in the lives of their families and homes.
This will involve one-to-one discipleship of mothers in our church; the opportunity to train, resource and empower other experienced Christian mothers and grandmothers to share this ministry; and to prayerfully gather all members of our parish to seek to make disciples of all nations, one mother and family at a time.
We also long to be a parish that learns and then shares from its ministry experience, in order to equip other, similar churches in rural and regional churches with this important, specialised ministry.
And guess what? We got the grant!
For the next two years we’ve received funding for an all-new, ten-hour-per-week position at our church to equip mums for ministry.
I am delighted to announce that Mrs Gemma Bartlett has accepted our invitation to fill this all-new role, and that from February next year she will be working with us to minister to our mums!
Gemma is married to Matt, who is an Anglican minister serving as the Youthworks Youth Ministry & High School SRE Advisor in the Wollongong Region, and they are the parents of Georgia (9), Thomas (6) and Hugo (2).
Gemma is passionate about helping to strengthen mums in their ministry in their families, and she is excited to serve with us as we develop the intergenerational ministries at our church.
We are really thankful to God for the opportunity to be partnering with Gemma and her family in this all-new ministry, and we pray that the Bartletts would have a smooth move to our church in the coming months.
JODIE McNEILL
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This weekend we Jodie leads us from the beginning of Ephesians chapter six in a sermon called ‘Children, Parents, Slaves and Masters’. To catch up on previous sermons in our series ‘Ephesians: United with Christ’, head to our Youtube channel youtube.jamberooanglican.com.
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 and Jodie would love to answer them this weekend during our services.
These are the questions that Jodie plans to answer this weekend:
1 Why was the homosexual community so eager to have access to marriage? 2 In Matthew 25:14-30 why was the servant punished when he didn’t invest the wicked money? 3 Is there a difference between submission and obedience? 4 Should a Christian wife submit to a non-Christian husband, and if so, how? 5 How should a Christian respond when they are wrongly rebuked?
Join us on Saturday at 5pm where we will have fellowship over dinner afterwards, or Sunday at 9am followed by morning tea and hot espresso! We have a kids program at both services and would love for you to be in fellowship with us.
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On Wednesday, an official opinion was unveiled by a high-ranking group of Australian Anglicans in which they decided that it is OK for an Anglican church to conduct a service to bless a same-sex union.
This group, called the ‘Appellate Tribunal’, has the special role of providing a legal opinion to our national church, although it’s not binding until the formal parliament of the Australian Anglican church (called ‘General Synod’) meets next May to decide whether to adopt the opinion.
In making up its mind, the Appellate Tribunal asked the official opinion of a board of bishops of Australia, as well as another panel of theologians, and both groups came up with the same, united decision that a same-sex blessing was, in fact, contrary to the Bible and the doctrine of our church.
It is possible that some Anglican churches in Australia might decide not to wait till next year’s General Synod, but will ‘jump the gun’ and soon start to conduct blessings of couples that have already had a civil same-sex marriage ceremony.
If these liberal churches do this, then it will place enormous pressure on the unity of the Anglican Church of Australia, and may lead some churches and ministers to seek leadership from a different bishop than the one in their own diocese.
This is the very thing that happened recently in New Zealand, and which could easily happen in Australia.
Thankfully all of the leaders in our own Diocese of Sydney reject this liberal view, as do the majority of Australian Anglicans, as represented by General Synod.
At a time like this we are thankful for the fellowship of Gafcon, which stands alongside orthodox Anglicans as they seek to be faithful to God’s good word about life and salvation.
Let’s pray that those who have departed from God’s word might repent and turn back to him, and that those orthodox Anglicans who stand firm in these liberal dioceses might be able to continue to serve God and their congregations during these tough times of disobedience.
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.
