Jamberoo Anglican

Ephesians: United with Christ Talk 16: Families and Workplaces Ephesians chapter 6 verses 1 to 9 Jodie McNeill – 21-22 November 2020

November 21, 2020/in Documents/by Jodie McNeill

Read the manual

Our manufacturer has given us a ______

All people are equally _________ to God

Children are equally important in ______

Children must ____ their parents

This commandment comes with a _______

The promised land is the ___ Jerusalem

Dads need to take ______________

Dads mustn’t make their kids _____

Dads should train their kids to be __________

Good __________ leads to self-discipline

The married relationship takes ________

First century slavery is like modern __________

Slaves need to obey their _______

Slaves should serve _______ like they’re serving Jesus

Work for your ____ like you’re working for the Lord

Masters must be ____ and loving

Employers need to be ____ and loving

Seek and offer ___________

Consider Christ

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Church News for the week beginning 22nd November

November 21, 2020/in News Headlines/by admin

OUR BIBLE TALK

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 at www.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.

Our New Mother’s Minister!

November 19, 2020/in News Sheet Blurb/by Jodie McNeill

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

Coming up this weekend 21-22 November

November 16, 2020/in Coming Up this Weekend/by admin

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.

If you can’t make it in person, head to watch.jamberooanglican.com to watch our livestream.

Ephesians: United with Christ Talk 15: Husbands and Wives Ephesians chapter 5 verses 21 to 33 Jodie McNeill – 14-15 November 2020

November 14, 2020/in Documents/by Jodie McNeill

Why does marriage matter?

Marriage is a ____ from God

We are filled with the Spirit as we ______

We are all equally ________ in God’s sight

The wife should ______ the lead of her husband

Like a body, there is _____ in the unity

A husband must never ______ that his wife submit

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Husbands have ______________ for the marriage

The husband doesn’t need to make every ________

The husband’s love needs to be total _________

From the day you say ‘I do’ you cease to ____ for you

We are ______ as we believe the word of God

A husband _____ himself when he loves his wife

When the church hurts, Christ ______

_____ and cleave

The link between Christ and marriage is _________

Singleness is a ____

Don’t give up on your ________

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Minority Marriage Report

November 14, 2020/in News Sheet Blurb/by Jodie McNeill

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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