Bulletin Announcements – 13 September 2015

11 September 2015
  • Salt & Pepper Fellowship is having a gathering on 19 Sept. A talk “Health Living Older” at 4:30pm and Dinner at 6pm. Tickets on sale now $20pp. Please contact Andrew Chiu or Derek Hong.
  • Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes will be available for collection on Sundays 13 and 20 Sept. from Elizabeth. Please return the shoeboxes by 4 Oct.
  • Today is the last day of Term 3 for Sunday school. Term 4 will start on 11 October. We will have holiday program for 20 and 27 September and 4 October for children up to Year 4. We encourage Year 5 and 6 children to join our 9am English service. Play Group will have Teddy Bear picnic on 13 September, 10am to 12.30pm. We invite families with young children to join us for this fun event. Please bring a teddy so we can have this picnic and play time together.
  • Our church will be part of the Rhodes community outreach on Saturday, September 26. We will have a stall with Christian materials and activities from 12-7pm, and present a programme of performances from 2pm. If you are able to help out on the day, please contact Hanji Tok (hanjitokasih@gmail.com), or just support by attending on the day at the Rhodes Market Square.
  • Notice is hereby given to all members of the church for the Annual General Meeting, called by the Diaconate, on Sunday, October 4 at 12:30pm at the Chapel of WSCCC Strathfield. All members please see the ushers after the service for a copy of the WSCCC Annual Report (one copy per family please) and the AGM Agenda.
  • Announcement from the Diaconate: Following staff appraisals, the Diaconate has agreed to re-appoint Rev Keith Noldt as a part-time minister of the church on a 3-year term, primarily focusing on the Strathfield English ministry. In addition, the working hours of Rev Ariel Kurilowicz and children’s ministry coordinator Liza Mihardja will be increased according to the needs of their ministries (each from 50% to 60% working load starting from 1 September 2015). Please continue to be in prayer for all the ministers of our church.

 

Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:

“The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.” (Proverbs 8:22-23 NKJV)

Wisdom is not just knowing things but knowing what to do with them; how to treat them and use them in a godly way. Yet here in Proverbs we learn that Wisdom is much more than even this. Wisdom here is personified and deified. We learn that Wisdom was always God’s possession. He did not create it, acquire it, or find it; it is intrinsic to his nature. This is made clear when it says; “I have been established from everlasting,…” meaning Wisdom is an eternal attribute of his. Also, the word “established” can mean “to be anointed” or “made ruler”. Wisdom was in God and directing God’s ways before creation existed. Then there is the “me”; the personification of Wisdom. Therefore, Wisdom is in God, eternally part of God yet separate to him. The Old Testament is littered with clues that point towards a Trinitarian God and this in one of them. But what does all this mean for us? It means many things but firstly it means this: you are not a random collection of atoms but a created being fashioned by Wisdom itself.

from Pastor Ariel