This friday night at youth is the term 4 parent’s dinner! Bring along your whole family and a plate to share.
As well a enjoying a dinner together, we’ll be finding out what the youth have been up to this year in ‘serve 2011′.
This Friday, 21st Oct
Park Ave
7pm – 9pm
Look forward to seeing you there.
The whole church will enjoy a bring & share lunch in the LHS auditorium from 12pm on Vision Sunday, November 13.
This will also be an opportunity for those not yet in a gospel community to ask questions and hear GC members describe how things are going in their GC. Real people, real life, lived on purpose for Jesus. It’d be great to share lunch with you on Vision Sunday.
hi everyone
just a reminder that due to the upcoming HSC assessments we will be meeting in the MPU tomorrow 16 October (see map below) – you can park where you normally do and walk over or use the Dalley Street entrance carpark.
see you there…
Julie
Welcome! Term 4 seems to be the craziest time of the year, don’t you reckon? It often feels like life is just happening to you, out of control, and all you can do is hold on and hope for January. It’s a time, maybe even more so than other times, when Jesus – that’s the LORD Jesus – can easily get ignored and lost in all the fuss of the end of year and Christmas and all that…
But it shouldn’t be like that, it doesn’t have to be like that, and if we know what’s good for us, we’ll make sure that THIS term 4 it’s not like that either. Because according to Hebrews 8-13, which we’re digging into this term, LIFE IS BETTER WITH JESUS. Not in the dumb way that you might’ve heard some people talk about that makes Jesus out to be just some heavenly Santa Claus. Life is better with Jesus because Jesus is better than anything else this life has to offer! Seriously – he’s WAY better!
So I’ve got an idea. Before term 4 gets out of hand (and you know it will!), decide now how you’re going to make time for Jesus. I mean, make a plan and plan to stick to it. And as part of that plan, why not commit to making it to every week of your small group or DNA this term. That way, you’ll not only be encouraged yourself to discover why life is better with Jesus but you’ll be encouraging others as well.
Well it started early for some (5.30am) when the meat was put on the spit (thank you to those guys) and continued into the afternoon with much feasting and much to praise God for including the beautiful sunshine.
It was also good to be reminded how God is working to transform our church family even now as we look forward to the ultimate transformation and how he is using us to share this hope with the wider community.
Below are a few pictures from the day:
thank you to those who blew up balloons on Friday afternoon and decorated the hall
Rufus and the introduction of our new puppet Monty
celebration fun!
Happy 14th Birthday scpc!
we were joined by a special guest for lunch
lolleyman trying to escape by throwing all the lollies away
kids activities
scpc church family!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped out with the morning tea and working bee after our morning service last Sunday. Thanks for baking, buying, lifting, lopping, chatting, chopping, carting, clearing and everything else involved. It’s great to be able to join with some of the staff, parents & students of the school, to strengthen our relationships there and to respond to the gospel of Jesus by doing the good works that he’s prepared for us (Eph 2:8-10).
We’re currently running the Marriage Course at SCPC. It’s the 4th time we’ve run it and every time couples who truly want to grow strong marriages benefit by attending. But we know that it’s sometimes difficult to get out 7 Thursday nights in a row for something like the Marriage Course (especially with young kids!).
So here are a couple of links, one to a video, the other to an audio talk, that that you can watch or listen to together in the comfort and convenience of your own home. I hope they help husbands & wives to love each other well..
Welcome to the new SCPC site!
The new site aims to give a fresh look, make it easier to navigate and adds a bit more functionality. The site has also been migrated to a faster provider which should give a significant boost in speed.
One notable change is that the weekly bible talks will no longer appear on the front page as posts. This will help minimise clutter so the front page can be used more for Church family updates and other helpful / informative posts. Talks can still be accessed by clicking ‘browse’ in Bible Talks section on the right sidebar.
Also in the right sidebar is the ‘What’s on’ section. Clicking on these items will take you to a page providing further details about the item.
Over the next few months we’ll be endeavouring to keep the site active so watch this space…
knowing calm when life gets messy
The women’s retreat is an opportunity for women of different ages to “retreat” into God’s Word and learn how to live like His daughters, as well as mixing together for fun and encouragement.
This year Julie Nicholson will be speaking to us on anxiety and contentment.
Who: women year 10+
When: 9am to 4pm on Saturday 29 October
Where: Church Building, Park Avenue, East Lismore
Cost: $15pp (includes morning tea and lunch)
$30 for family of 2 or more
nursing mums are very welcome however we are unable to provide child minding
Clean Up Australia
Sunday 4 March
7.30pm
Tuesday 7 February
