Coming up this weekend 23-24 November

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We continue our series on Acts this week, ‘Launching the Church’, and will see the evidence of a Pastor’s heart in Paul through chapters 20 & 21 as he continues to teach the word of the Lord. His willingness to sacrifice himself for the Lord is evident as he continues to encourage his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

Each week at our services we have a question and answer segment. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them during the week by emailing them to office@jamberooanglican.com or via a response slip at church.

Here are the questions that we’ll be looking at this weekend:

1 Was it Jesus or one of the angels who spoke to Paul in the dream?
2 Is the Devil the boss of Hell or is he just like every other non-Christian living there?
3 How can ‘the elect’ truly follow God if they don’t have a genuine choice?
4 When a person dies who isn’t a Christian, what happens to them on Judgement Day?
5 If someone confesses and truly believes that Jesus is Lord but doesn’t show it in their life, then will they be saved?
6 Is it is a sin to find it hard to trust and forgive a Christian who keeps sinning and going the wrong things even after they have repented?
7 When Hebrews 6:4 says “it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were enlightened” does it mean it’s impossible to re-convert a believer who has fallen away?

We would love to see you at our Saturday evening service at 5pm, which has a kids program, followed by dinner & a youth group for the teens, or our Sunday morning service at 9am where afterwards we can share morning tea and good conversations over hot espresso!

Grace and peace,
Jodie

Acts: Launching the Church 14: Corinth and Ephesus Acts 18:1-19:41 Jodie McNeill – 16 and 17 November 2019

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The sorry state of Aussie Christianity.

It is vital that more people know _____.

In his distress, Paul told the Athenians about _____.

Corinth is very sexually _______.

Ephesus is _________ like the New Age movement.

Paul _____ Aquila and Priscilla.

There’s ______ in the too-hard basket!

Jesus _________ Paul in a dream.

Many people in Corinth ______ to Jesus.

Jesus works as we _____ the word of God.

The word of God is the _____ of God!

The governor declares that Christianity is _____.

Priscilla and Aquilla _________ the theology of Apollos.

We plant and water, but God does the _______!

When you trust in Jesus, you get __________ at once!

We don’t just preach, we _________.

Unusual miracles _________ Paul’s ministry.

Jesus has ___ the fight with evil!

They _________ their past when they followed Christ.

As Christianity grew, paganism ______.

Again they confirm that Christianity is a _____ religion.

God’s powerful ____ will keep bringing people to Christ.

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Church News for the week beginning 17th November

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OUR BIBLE TALK

This weekend we continue our series on Acts, ‘Launching the Church’, and are looking through chapter 18 about how Paul in Corinth and Ephesus, through the Scriptures, showed that the Christ was Jesus!

MISSION OF THE MONTH

Our mission of the month is CMS. Donate and buy from the mission table to help support our CMS partners.

VISION GATHERING

Please plan to join us on Saturday 30th November at 8am to 11am for our final Vision Gathering for the year. We’ll be prayerfully planning for our ministries for 2020 and we’d love everyone to join us.

LADIES GUILD

The next Ladies Guild meeting will be on Saturday December 14th at 3pm. All the youth are also invited as it will be a planning meeting for our Christmas Eve service on the lawn.

INTER-CHURCH CAROLS

Be sure to save Tuesday 10th December in your diaries for our famous ‘Carols in the Park’ event in Reid Park at 6.30pm.

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

This year we will be having our first-in-a-long-time Christmas Eve service! Come join us at 6:30pm on our new church lawn for a night of carols and fellowship. Our regular Christmas day service will be at 9am in the church.

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 $5882.00, leaving a gap of $418.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $245,700. Compared to that total we received $221,466, leaving a gap of $24,234.Olimometer 2.52

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: Church of England Jamberoo. Account number: 10081274. BSB: 062562.

Everyday Miracles

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When we woke on Tuesday morning, we were bracing for a fire disaster in the almost-unprecedented ‘catastrophic’ fire conditions in Jamberoo and our surrounds.

Before I joined my RFS compatriots at our local station to stand by for a fire call, I shared on Facebook a prayer for our troubled country which was written by Archbishop Glenn Davies.

The prayer said, “Father we pray, in your mercy, restrain the forces of nature from creating catastrophic damage; in your mercy protect human life.”

As we patrolled the roads and lanes of our valley in our RFS tanker, scanning the horizons for any sign of smoke, we listened to the weather forecast climb from severe to extreme.

I kept praying, and you know what? Nothing happened.

Even though the trees bent over from the high winds, and the temperature rose to high 30’s, and the humidity fell to single figures, there were no fires, no damage, and most importantly, no loss of life.

God powerfully answered our prayers, and we have so much to rejoice for.

At times like this where we are spared from disaster we can be tempted to think that nothing spectacular happened: after all, it’s just another day without a terrible fire.

But as we asked, God has answered.

Yet, as we give thanks to God for powerfully and mercifully sparing the Illawarra from fire destruction, there are many thousands of people suffering as we speak from the effects of fire in our land.

Knowing how wonderfully God answered prayer on Tuesday in our valley we can confidently pray that God will protect property and lives in the coming days and weeks.

And above all, that whatever happens, we might find comfort in the Lord who is powerful, merciful and gracious.

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this weekend 16-17 November

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This weekend we continue our series on Acts, ‘Launching the Church’, and are looking through chapter 18 about how Paul in Corinth and Ephesus, through the Scriptures, showed that the Christ was Jesus!

Each week at our services we have a question and answer segment, and this week’s questions are:

  1. How does the devil have the power to tell the future?
  2. Is it unwise or sinful to celebrate Halloween?
  3. Aren’t all unmarried Christians living with the gift of singleness, at least for that period of time?
  4. Is the gift of marriage something to be desired, given it leads to a divided devotion to God?
  5. Why does singleness seem to be rarely encouraged for Christians?
  6. Should we encourage Christians into singleness if they are in a relationship with a non-Christian?
  7. If babies cry through their baptism does that mean that they don’t want to be baptised?

So come along to our Saturday service at 5pm, where we have a kids program and dinner afterwards, followed by a youth group for the teens, or to our more classic Anglican style service on Sunday at 9am, and we can chat over morning tea and espresso after.

Grace and peace,
Jodie

Acts: Launching the Church 13: Paul in Athens – Acts 17:16-34 – 9 and 10 November 2019

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How religious is Australia?

Most Aussies don’t think that ________ matters.

Paul is deeply ________ at their idolatry.

Idolatry should stir you up for _______.

The marketplace is anywhere people ______.

Paul tailored his message to his ________.

The pursuit of ________ is the dominant Aussie religion.

The ______ mentality is also an Aussie attitude.

The ancient philosophers couldn’t ____ God.

The ____________ changes everything.

We have a fascination with ___ ideas.

Paul works within their religious _________.

God ___________ everything.

God doesn’t ____ anything from us.

God made all people so we would ____ him.

Even atheists can discover things about ________.

All people must ______ and follow God.

Judgement day is coming ____.

Jesus’ resurrection makes sense of __________.

Aussies would be better off with _____.

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Church News for the week beginning 10th November

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OUR BIBLE TALK

This week our Acts series, ‘Launching the Church’, follows Paul in Athens as he proclaims the truth about the Saviour, Jesus Christ, from Acts 17:16-34. We’ll see how Paul talks to a group of deep thinkers about why God is real and how they need to respond. It’s a great example of connecting with people in a relativistic world with lots of gods and idols.

MISSION OF THE MONTH

Our mission of the month is CMS. Donate and buy from the mission table to help support our CMS partners.

MONIQUE DARE-WARD MEMORIAL

A memorial service for Monique Dare-Ward will be held this Sunday 10th November at 2pm at Kiama Anglican Church.

JOHN MALOUF FUNERAL

A funeral service for John Malouf will be held this Monday 11th November at 12pm at Stan Crapp’s in Kiama. Bishop David Mulready will be leading the service.

PARISH COUNCIL

The next Parish Council meeting will be held this Tuesday night 12th November at 7pm.

VISION GATHERING

Please plan to join us on Saturday 30th November at 8am to 11am for our final Vision Gathering for the year. We’ll be prayerfully planning for our ministries for 2020 and we’d love everyone to join us.

INTER-CHURCH CAROLS

Be sure to save Tuesday 10th December in your diaries for our famous ‘Carols in the Park’ event in Reid Park at 6.30pm.

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

This year we will be having our first-in-a-long-time Christmas Eve service! Come join us at 6:30pm on our new church lawn for a night of carols and fellowship. Our regular Christmas day service will be at 9am in the church.

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 $5882.00, leaving a gap of $418.00. Olimometer 2.52 Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $245,700. Compared to that total we received $221,466, leaving a gap of $24,234.Olimometer 2.52

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: Church of England Jamberoo. Account number: 10081274. BSB: 062562.

Praying like a child

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Have you noticed how often Jesus tells people in his kingdom to be like children?

Until recently, I’ve thought that he was only talking about how we are unable to earn our salvation in any way.

But as I’ve read Paul E. Miller’s book, ‘A Praying Life’, I’ve now seen that the childlikeness Jesus refers to should also include the way that we approach him in prayer.

We are tempted to think that we need to present prayers to him that are all ‘grown up’, with everything neat and tidy.

Yet, when a child speaks to a parent, they just speak the first thing that comes into their mind, and they don’t really worry about having a polished presentation.

What’s more, a child is happy to ask over and over again for what they want, showing little restraint with their requests, almost to the point of rudeness.

These child-like behaviours would normally be discouraged in mature, grownups, and yet this is exactly the kind of way that God wants us to approach him in prayer.

So, if you’re feeling distant from God and finding it difficult to pray, then just start talking to God with the first thing that comes into your mind.

It may not be eloquent, and it might end up sounding a bit repetitive and insistent, but that’s exactly the way that kids talk to mum and dad… and the way that Jesus wants us to talk to our Father.

This should come as a great relief if you’re finding it hard to know where to start in your prayers.

You just need to start talking to God like a child talks to his parent, and humbly bring your requests to him.

And we can know with confidence that he will hear us and answer us as is best for us… what a relief!

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this weekend 9-10 November

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This week our Acts series, ‘Launching the Church’, follows Paul in Athens as he proclaims the truth about the Saviour, Jesus Christ, from Acts 17:16-34. We’ll see how Paul talks to a group of deep thinkers about why God is real and how they need to respond. It’s a great example of connecting with people in a relativistic world with lots of gods and idols.

We also have a weekly question time during our services. If you have a question, please fill out a response slip or send an email to us. Here are the questions we’re answering this weekend:

1 Who are the modern-day equivalents of the ancient Bereans?
2 If Lydia never heard Paul’s message would she be in Heaven?
3 If God wants everyone to believe in Him then why does he choose only some people?
4 In Acts 16 how did the slave girl predict the future?
5 Are people still possessed by spirits and demons like the fortune-telling woman?
6 Is it necessary to get baptised?
7 Will everyone in the same household be saved?
8 Does the Apostles Creed include all we need to believe for salvation and thus fellowship?
9 Will traditional Catholics go to heaven?

Please join us for church this Saturday at 5pm, with a kids’ program, followed by dinner and then a youth group for the teens. Or come this Sunday at 9am for a more classic Anglican style service and we can chat over morning tea and hot espresso!

Grace and peace,
Jodie

Acts: Launching the Church 12: Mission in Macedonia Acts 16:6-17:15 Jodie McNeill – 2 and 3 November 2019

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Uncertainty about the future.

God is in control of __________!

Paul wants to _____ the Jerusalem letter.

The Holy Spirit ________ the missionaries.

God ______ in many ways.

The Macedonian man pleads for ____.

They arrive in ________.

Lydia accepted Paul’s ________.

Lydia’s whole household were ________.

A fortune-telling slave makes her master a _______.

The slave master is angry at Paul for the ________.

They have ______ prayer and praise!

The jailer asks how to be _____.

They need to _______.

The whole household is ________.

The believers are __________ by the miracle.

‘Jesus is King’ can be seen as _______.

The Bereans search the __________ every day.

You can know God’s mind by reading the _____.

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