Bulletin Announcements – 22 June 2014
Children Ministry Announcement: Sunday school: Today is the last day for Sunday school. We will have holiday program for 29 June, 6 and 13 July. Term 3 will start 20 July. Play Group: 24 June will be the last day for Play Group. We will have Road Safety Day where we will learn about Road Safety rules and play. We invite children 5 years and under to come and play with us. Term 3 will start 15 July.
Watoto Children’s Choir: The Watoto African Children’s Choir Concert is this Friday, 27 June, 7pm at Burwood Public School. CP10 and other churches will be assisting the Baptist Community Church Burwood in putting on this evangelistic outreach concert. Because this event is free you may need to turn up from 6:30pm to get a seat. If you would like to help out in some way please contact Pastor Chadd Hafer.
Strathfield 9am Ladies Fellowship Bible Study: Sunday 6th July 10.45am to 12.15pm at the home of Alice Cheng in Strathfield. The study will be from chapter 2 – “A Throwaway Woman”.
Welcome Home Lunch for the Lepelaars: Rolf, Bonnie, Jasmine and Samuel (our missionaries in Cambodia) are back in Sydney on home assignment for a few months. To welcome them home, a lunch is being held at the Strathfield Church Hall on Sunday 6th July at 12:30pm. Come and hear them share about the ministry in Cambodia. Please do bring a plate of food to share for lunch.
Diaconate Announcement: At the Annual General Meeting of the church on 5 October 2014, election of deacons for the next Diaconate term will take place (5 deacons per language group). Please reflect on 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and prayerfully consider whether you are moved to serve, or nominate someone amongst your congregation to serve in our church as deacon. If you do, please first contact a member of Deacon Nomination Committee (see the names below), and ask for the nomination form & related information. The closing date for nominations is 29August 2014. Please be prayerful and prompt. Deacon Nomination Committees: Cantonese: Kit Ling, Winnie Chan, Jack Lai, Maurice Cheng; Mandarin: Ching Ping Chan, David Chen, Ley Bie Tio, Yue Zhang; English: Lydia Tan, Les Lee, Anthony Choong, Cerise Yeung.
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:
“If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.” (Luke 17:3b-4 NIV)
How easy negative rebuking comes to our hearts and then flows onto our lips! For some of us it trickles constantly like a stream gradually wearing the sinner down while for others of us it explodes like a bomb and blows them away. Rebuking instead should be gentle and positive; spurring the sinner to repentance which then stirs you to forgive. And even if they sin against you again, again, and again your duty is to forgive. Up to seven times Jesus says; meaning an unlimited number of times. “Oh, how hard!”; you say. “How impossible!” “That same sin drives me up the wall. It causes me grief and hurts me greatly every time.” Yes, true forgiveness requires considerable patience, calls for immense selflessness, and then must be soaked with extravagant grace. Truly, it is no easy task but Jesus here is not asking for something which he wouldn’t do himself. For just ask yourself sinner how often he has forgiven you?
from Pastor Ariel