Connecting With Our Community…

Over the coming weeks we have some exciting initiatives as we seek to connect our community and beyond with Christ. On Wednesday night the 17^th of March we are holding an Introducing Alpha dinner to which we hope and pray as many people as possible will be invited to come from our community and our own connections to hear a talk from Nicky Gumbel and enjoy a meal together. From this dinner we hope that many will join our next Alpha course starting on 14^th April.

To help connect those in our community with us as a Church and also as an opportunity to invite as many as possible to connect with Christ through the Alpha Course and Christianity Explained, one of our Men’s Bible study groups are holding a Car Boot Sale on Saturday morning, 20^th March, on the front lawn of our church. They are asking that our church family dig through their homes for some good second-hand ware and come down on the Saturday morning with their cars to sell their treasures and meet our community. Each car will be asked to donate $10 for their spot. There will also be a BBQ and information stand where people can pick up free Christian resources. All money raised from the BBQ and the car fees will be donated to our Link Missionaries.

These two events are great ways for our church family to seek to connect our community with Christ and I hope you can be involved in some way. Thinking beyond St Phils, we also have the opportunity this week and next week to hear about the mission work of one our Link Missionaries and one family hoping to be linked to us as they head to the mission field. Lynne Callinan and her friend Eileen are with us this week and you can catch up with them for morning tea today after Church@10 in the St Stephen’s Rooms. Next week we will have Will and Edna McKelleher with us as they prepare to head to Taiwan later this year to begin a new ministry amongst the working class of Taiwan. There will also be a chance to catch up and hear more about their missionary work at morning tea and supper next week.

Stefan



JANUARY 2010

• Romans 3:21-31 (Mike Begbie)
• John 4:1-26 (Mike Begbie)
• Daniel 5:13-31 (Bruce Ballantine-Jones)
• John 9:1-41 (Andrew Levy)
• Genesis 11:1-9 (Andrew Levy)
• Eclipse Service (Luke 11:29-32, Mike Hall)
• Luke 10:25-37 (Alex Zunica)
• 2 Corinthians 4 (Paul Sampson)

JUST DO IT!!

• Tough Faith for Tough Times (James 1:1-18, Stefan Bull)
• Just Do It!! (James 1:19-27, Stefan Bull)
• Unconditional Love (James 2:1-13, Stefan Bull)
• Real Faith (James 2:14-26. Stefan Bull)
• Taming the Tongue (James 3:1-18, Stefan Bull)