Bulletin Announcements – 15 June 2012
Children Ministry Announcement: Term 2 – 22 June will be the last day for Sunday school. 24 June will be the last day for Play Group. We will have holiday program for 29 June, 6 and 13 July. Term 3 will start 20 July (Sunday school) and 15 July (Play Group).
Watoto Children’s Choir: This month CP@10 and other local churches will be assisting the Baptist Community Church at Burwood in putting on a concert of the Watoto African Children’s Choir. This event will take place on Friday, 27 June at 7pm at Burwood Public School. This is a free event, so you might want to turn up from 6:30pm to get a seat. During this concert the gospel will be presented in various forms. If you would like tickets or to help out in some way please contact Pastor Chadd Hafer.
ENGAGE 14 (29th to 31st August) – come for a weekend away at Katoomba with a group of young adults and listen to what God says about work. Registration has just opened and if you would like to find out more please talk to Andrew Drury (andrewdrury22@gmail.com 0416 777 607) or see the website – www.engage.kcc.org.au.
Search for Success – Thursday August 7th – Francis Chan and John Lennox. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter” – please see www.sfs14.com for more details.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17 NIV)
Isn’t it just delightful to have a God who sings over you! A Mighty Warrior who delights to perform a song over the ones he saves! At first it might sound like a paradox. Just picture it for a second; a manly muscly fighter like one of those you find in a boxing ring, in one hand holding a microphone and belting out a song while with the other he reaches out to you in delight. A cross between Michael Bublé and a young Mohammed Ali if you will. I might be stretching it a little you say or maybe you’d just prefer to roll your eyes up at me. Yet, before you delete this picture out of your mind consider King David the handsome Mighty Warrior leaping, dancing, and undoubtedly singing before the LORD’s ark as it was brought into Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6). Sometimes our conservatively reserved Christian minds need a bit of a jolt and maybe even to picture Jesus our Mighty Warrior King unashamedly rejoicing over us with singing? Just a biblical thought after all.
from Pastor Ariel