Bulletin Announcements – 2 February 2014
Starting Today: Four Keys to Happiness – Success? Freedom? Love? Me? – we will having a series of 4 talks on happiness and Sam Chan will be speaking. Invite your friends, start the conversation with all your friends now on what is happiness and how we can find it?
CHURCH RETREAT: Growing Together, Serving Together! – Church Retreat on 14-16 March 2014 to be held at Stanwell Tops. Save the Date! Registration starts today.
Children Ministry Announcement – Term 1 Sunday school for 2014 starts today, please fill in enrolment form for your children. Contact our teachers or Liza for one. Play Group will start 4 February 2014.
Ladies – Equip 14 (Why # Wise) is open for registration on 1 Feb 2014. Early bird registration $52 ends on 8 Feb. Venue – Rose Hill Gardens, James Ruse Drive. You can register online http://www.equip.org.au/program/ or contact Solan for further information.
Notice from the Diaconate: The results of the EGM held on 26th January 2014 are as follows:
1. The motion (1) to call Pastor Chadd Hafer as a full-time pastor of the church to serve CroydonPark@10 English congregation was carried with 94.9% votes.
2. The motion (2) to call Rev. Andrew Choy as a part-time minister of the church to serve the Cantonese congregation was carried with 98.9% votes.
Pastor Hafer will commence to serve on 3rd February 2014. Rev. Choy will commence to serve on 1st July 2014. Thank God for His guidance and provision.
Baptism: Those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour and desire to be baptised, please see Rev. Keith Noldt or a deacon about commencement of baptism classes. The WS baptism service is in May.
We must thank God for His abundant grace because He has prepared for us a buyer for the property at 55, Boyle Street. This buyer will use the property for residential use and the exchange of contract has been taken place on 15 January. As the sales process is in progress at the moment, please refrain from using this property from now on and thank you for your co-operation.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
“Our Father in heaven…” (Matthew 6:9b NIV)
What a way to start a prayer! “Our”: Jesus here makes it clear that God is both his Father and ours. Firstly, we are his children by birth and now his sons and daughters by our second birth; our adoption in Christ. “Father”: He is our authority; the one who loves us and commands our respect. He is our disciplinarian; the one who chastises us for our own good. He is our protector; the one who keeps us from harm and makes us feel safe. He is our mentor; the one who guides us and teaches us the right way. He is our encourager; the one who emboldens us and fills us with his Spirit. Finally, he is our hero; the one who shows us that we can be more than we are and inspirers us to be like him. “heaven”: The place where he lives; his home and so ours as well, and he welcomes us to it with open arms. I might not know much but this I know for sure; God is my Father; Jesus is my brother; and heaven is my home, and that is all I need to know for now.
from pastor Ariel