Join us for three Sunday Nights in September as we gather for teaching on tough topics. This is a trial run to experiment with adding some attentional teaching slots into the life of our church. My conviction is that we need more teaching about God and not less going forward!

These are optional, there’ll be no kids program but kids are welcome (NB: sensitive topics etc.). Hopefully these will be useful and will help us to know whether this is something we should do on a more regular basis!

When: 11th, 18th, 25th Sept

Time: ***CHANGED*** 5pm Toasties // 6pm Service

Where: Iron Street

Who: This is an open invite. Invite friends, neighbours, seekers. The primary target will be the church but I will develop the time with seekers and skeptics in view.

Dinner: Make your own Toasties from 5pm

Topics: “Love Is Love”, “Transgender Women Are Women”, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”. These themes will be developed from the book ‘Secular Creed’ by Rebecca Mclaughlin
Structure: Talk + Discussion Time + QnA

Help: If you’d like to help in anyway (PA, Slides, Toasties, Lead a Song), please let me know.

Men of SG Parra,

Reminder that we will holding our Men’s Breakfast in the forest on Friday 23rd Sept - Saturday 24th Sept.

Meeting at church (Iron St) @ 5.30pm on the Friday to carpool up to Olney State Forest.

Day -trippers more than welcome if you would prefer not to camp.

On Saturday morning, short talk/discussion led by Riley.

All food and drinks taken care of.

Please RSVP to Richard.K or Marcus by Sept 18. Get in touch if you want more info too.

Your LG leaders will let you know all the details!

Join us for three Sunday Nights in September as we gather for teaching on tough topics. This is a trial run to experiment with adding some attentional teaching slots into the life of our church. My conviction is that we need more teaching about God and not less going forward!

These are optional, there’ll be no kids program but kids are welcome (NB: sensitive topics etc.). Hopefully these will be useful and will help us to know whether this is something we should do on a more regular basis!

When: 11th, 18th, 25th Sept

Time: Start 6pm

Where: Iron Street

Who: This is an open invite. Invite friends, neighbours, seekers. The primary target will be the church but I will develop the time with seekers and skeptics in view.

Dinner: Make your own Toasties from 5.45pm

Topics: “Love Is Love”, “Transgender Women Are Women”, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”. These themes will be developed from the book ‘Secular Creed’ by Rebecca Mclaughlin
Structure: Talk + Discussion Time + QnA

Help: If you’d like to help in anyway (PA, Slides, Toasties, Lead a Song), please let me know.

On Sunday during Mission Prayer we took some time to pray for the amazing work the Lord is doing in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa).

Pastor Riley and Pastor Dave Taylor (Lead Pastor of SG Sydney), are currently serving in Addis Ababa teaching on the topic of ‘Planting and building Sovereign Grace Churches’ at the SG Pastors college.

Please continue to pray for:

1. Pastor Riley & Dave - Equipping of the saints for the ministry of the Gospel (Eph 4:12)

2. Spiritual protection - To take up the shield of faith (Eph 6:16)

3. For the 10 students in the College - That the Lord would strengthen their souls and enable them to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18)

4. For Pastor Josh Pannell and Trinity Fellowship - That this church and college would live out the great commission of making disciples of all nations (Matt 28:18-20)

May God be glorified through the work being done in Ethiopia.

The 14:1 ministry is meeting at 7.30pm this Friday, 21st October at 27 Iron St.

The night is open to all our church members and Starting Point members. Whether you are new to spiritual gifts, or are seeking to discern which gifts the Lord may have given you, or you are desiring to grow in your pursuit and practice of them then this night is designed for you!

We will spend time worshipping together, hearing from one another about how the Lord has worked through the gifts in our church recently (and He has!), and praying for one another. There will also be some teaching on the gifts and an opportunity for Q&A about the gifts.

See you there, Lord willing!

-Matt

It’s Ladies Growth Groups this week! Your LG leader will have all the details you need.

Over the past couple of months, Riley has been visiting Arcare Aged Care Oatlands, serving them by sharing the gospel and being served by their joy and faith!

Although at SG Parra we are a young demographic church, it is good to be reminded that Gods people is multi-generational and it our longing that our church will increasingly be comprised of people from every walk of life.

The gospel is our only hope in ‘life and death’, and so this wonderful message must be clearly an carefully expounded and applied to people of all ages and stages of life.

There’s opportunity to sing hymns (thankfully Youtube leads that session rather than Riley), and compared to Riley’s 50min sermons on Sunday, here at the Aged care, he only has 15mins!

It has been such a joyful moment to be able to partake in this ministry and as a church, I ask that we take a moment to pray that by God’s power they would be guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:5).

Last Sunday we had our Mid-Year Church Family meeting.

It was a great time of remembering the wonderous works the Lord has done within the past 8 months - Praise God!

And as we look towards the remaining months ahead of 2022 - Refocusing our eyes on the Cross and keeping that the center of all that we do!

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:36)

For those who missed out and would like to hear the recording of the session, please contact Pastor Riley.

Also, janitor@sgparra.org.au is now live! So if you’d like to help Richard Kapoor with all things care, maintenance, cleaning of Iron St, please reach out to him, you can also suggest possible things that need doing/attention.

Elvanto is a church management software we have implemented to help manage our rostering in a efficient, and simple way for all of us :) Moving forward, all roster swaps and replaces must be finalised in Elvanto :)

If you’re new to Elvanto, to get yourself started, please download the Elvanto App and read through the attached FAQs.

If you’re still having issues - never fear, our helpful SG Parra Elvanto Support Team will guide you through the process -> Link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HS4A7Kt9HMA3Saa0nzAfU3