On Sunday, we began going through the Sovereign Grace Catechism. We will be going through these questions and answers throughout this year to help us hide the foundational truths of our faith in our hearts.

The SG Catechism Books will also be available for purchase at church this week! They will be down from $15 to $10!

Men’s Growth Groups are on this week! Your LG leaders will let you know all the details.

Got questions about life?

We would love for you to join us for the Bridge Course!

Come and find a safe place to ask the hard questions at the Bridge, starting 6:30PM Tuesday 18 Feb.

Dinner and childcare will be provided!

Register your interest here.

Hey Church,

We are exactly two weeks out from week one of the Bridge, and to prepare for this, we have called for a time of prayer and fasting to seek God’s heart for the lost.

Fasting is a means of grace which helps us to humble ourselves before the Lord and long for more of His presence & power as His children; and helps us to be focused in our intercession for others.

In the lead up to the Bridge, we are calling for a time of corporate fasting as we pray for God to bring many to the course and to save souls through it! Whether you fast a meal a day, or for a day a week, or forego something else, lets seek the Lord with urgency and eager expectation.

Here’s a great little article that might help us in it: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/fasting-for-beginners 

May our hunger for God lead to the salvation of many!

This Sunday afternoon, we will be having our biannual Church Family Meeting, which we call “Envision”. This is a chance for Riley and different key leaders to give the church updates on how things have been going (ministries and finances) and to give you a vision for this year.

When: 4:30-6:30pm | Sunday, 9th February
Where: Iron Street Hall (27 Iron Street, North Parramatta)
Dinner will be provided and there will be a kids’ movie on downstairs for the duration of the meeting.

We would love for you to prioritise this in your calendar as there will be important announcements and information relayed during our time together. Thankyou!

Life groups are back on from this week!

Your LG leaders will contact you with further details.

To help you plan out this coming term, please find attached the Term 1 Life Group & Growth Group Schedule below. We hope that this will help you in your planning and organising your calendar/babysitting around groups where possible.

For the next four weeks we are diving into a sermon series called, “All In”, to kick our year off. We are going to look more topically at what it means to go all in for Jesus, with our time, money, and words. Although this will not be exhaustive the hope is that this will help shape us in some key ways for the year ahead.

“For to me to live is Christ” Phil 1:21

As we begin Life Groups next week, I wanted to let you know that sadly the Lucas Life Group has come to an end. A big thank you to Scott and Emma for hosting this group for the past year! Their group will be split up amongst our other groups.

I am excited to let you know that we are trialling something for the first time in our church, a language based Life Group. Arbie and Lavinia Magno will be starting their own Life Group for Tagalog speakers (one of the languages of the Philippines). This will help members in our church whose ‘heart language’ is not English. It’s one thing to answer bible questions in another language, it’s another thing to pour out your heart. We want to see how it goes to try and help some of our Filo brothers and sisters whom this will serve. They will be running this on Sunday Afternoons.

Please be praying for them!

On Sunday, we formerly introduced the Fletchers and welcomed them into our church family. Joel served us so well by preaching faithfully from Psalm 2, reminding us that true, lasting joy and safety can only be found in King Jesus and under His rule!

Joel will be coming on as a Student Minister at SG Parra, whilst studying at Moore Theological College in Sydney.

Please continue to warmly welcome Joel, Sam and little Jonathan as they settle into our church over the coming weeks.

Life groups will be starting up again from next week!

To help you plan out this coming term, please find attached the Term 1 Life Group & Growth Group Schedule below. We hope that this will help you in your planning and organising your calendar/babysitting around groups where possible.