This week at the 9am and 11am services we will be hearing from Ange Gratsounas on Jesus' Model Prayer from Matthew 6:5-13. At the 2pm Mandarin service, Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on what it means To be a genuine Christian from Matthew 6:1-18. At the 6pm service, Brett Hookham will be continuing our Living in Exile series with Exiles: Living with suffering knowing Christ's victory from 1 Peter 3:8-22. Please join us for Coffee Before Church from 4.30pm in the playground.
This week at the 9am and 11am services we will be hearing from Ange Gratsounas on Jesus’ Model Prayer from Matthew 6:5-13. At the 2pm Mandarin service, Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on what it means To be a genuine Christian from Matthew 6:1-18. At the 6pm service, Brett Hookham will be continuing our Living in Exile series with Exiles: Living with suffering knowing Christ’s victory from 1 Peter 3:8-22. Please join us for Coffee Before Church from 4.30pm in the playground.
At the 9am and 11am services this week, Ange Gratsounas will speak on The Gifts of the Spirit- part 2, and will also be delivering this message at the 2pm Mandarin service. At 6pm, the Youth will be hosting the service. There will be a baptism and the commissioning of the Wellington mission team who will travel to Wellington NSW to run the Holiday Club in the first week of school holidays. Our guest speaker Ross Ciano will speak on ‘One verse that will change your life’ from 1 Peter 3:18. There will be a Super Supper dinner after this service that all are invited to.
This Sunday, at the 9am and 11am services, Ange Gratsounas will be speaking on The Gifts of the Spirit– part 1 and Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on the same topic at the 2pm Mandarin service (1 Corinthians 12:1-11). At the 6pm service, Brett Hookham will be speaking on Exiles: living in society – spouses from 1 Peter 3:1-7.
It’s Father’s Day and David Williams will be speaking to us in the morning services on Learning from one father’s struggle – believing in the midst of doubt from Mark 9:14-29. At the 2pm Mandarin service Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on To be a father of faith from Mark 9:14-29. At the 6pm service, Brian and Catherine Walicki will be baptised and there will be a dedication for their son Sebastian. Ange Gratsounas will be speaking on The Proof of God’s Love from Romans 5:6-11 at this service. The service will be followed by Cheap Eats in the hall.
This Sunday we will be launching our annual Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Appeal, where we invite people to take a shoebox, pick an age and gender for a child, and pack that shoebox with gifts, then return the box so it can be sent to bless children in need in the South Pacific region this Christmas.
At the 9am Ange Gratsounas will be speaking on The Fruit of the Spirit. The 11am service will be a Bilingual service with combined worship and separate sermons. Ange will speak on The Fruit of the Spirit to the English speaking congregation and Lianbo Zhang will speak on the same topic to the Mandarin congregation. Both morning services will be followed by a sausage sizzle. The Quarterly Church Meeting takes place at 1pm.
At the 6pm service Brett Hookham will be continuing our Living in Exile series with Exiles: living in society – slaves from 1 Peter 2:18-25. Don’t forget Coffee Before Church in the playground from 4.30pm.
At the 9am and 11am services Ange Gratsounas will be continuing our series called Life in the Spirit beginning with The Fullness of the Spirit, and at the 2pm Mandarin service Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on the same title from Romans 8:1-17; 26-27. At the 6pm service, Ange Gratsounas will be speaking on Exiles: living in society – the state and slaves from 1 Peter 2:11-25. The service will be followed by Cheap Eats in the hall.
This Sunday is our annual Be Love Sponsorship Sunday and Cameron Eccleston will be speaking to us at all 3 English services (9am, 11am and 6pm) on what Baptist World Aid are doing, especially focussing on Cambodia, and on the often asked question: Where are you, God? from Isaiah 58:1-10.
At the 2pm Mandarin service, Lianbo Zhang will be speaking on Baptism of the Spirit from Acts 2:1-13.
This Sunday, at the 9am and 11am services Ange Gratsounas will speak to us on The Promise and Baptism of the Spirit, and at the 2pm Mandarin service, Lianbo Zhang will be preaching on the same topic. At the 6pm service, we will continue our Exiles series with 1 Peter 2:11-25, hearing Brett Hookham speak on Exiles: living in society and living with injustice.
This Sunday, at the 9am and 11am services, Ange Gratsounas will begin a new series in the book of Jonah, beginning with chapter 1. At the 2pm Mandarin service, Lianbo Zhang will also be speaking from Jonah, The Way of the Rebellious from Jonah 1:1-17. At the 6pm service David Williams will be speaking from Exodus 1 on God’s Faithfulness Continues.
At the 9am and 11am services, Tim MacBride will be introducing a new series called Life in the Spirit, beginning with Who is the Spirit? At the 2pm service, Lianbo Zhang will also speak on Who is the Spirit? At the 6pm service, Brett Hookham continues the series Living in Exile, speaking on Exiles: reborn and rebuilt to declare praise 1 Peter 2:1-10.