This Sunday will be 3 years for Sovereign Grace Parramatta! The Lord has truly blessed us and continues to provide for us in all things. Praise God for His goodness and faithfulness!
Please join us this Sunday to celebrate this wonderful occasion!
Hey Church,
Do you perhaps have a couple of hours this week or the next to assist with some bookkeeping tasks?
No accounting qualifications required, just the ability to scan a heap of receipts and load them up to our Finance system.
If you can serve in this capacity, we would greatly appreciate your assistance. If this is you, please contact Richard - richard@sgparra.org.au
Thanks :)
It’s Ladies Growth Groups this week! Your LG leader will have all the details you need.
We are starting our Friday night Mission prayer again starting this week!
Everyone in the church is invited!
When: Friday, Sept 9, 7:30pm
Where: 27 Iron St, North Parra
Hope to see you all there!
At our Church family meeting a month a go, I mentioned that we would go back to the basics of why we mission.
So the question I have for you is… Why do we need to mission? If God is in control of everything, why cant we just sit back and not bother?
This is one of the many questions we hope to unpack as we start (an optional but highly recommended) book club:
Who: You’re all invited
What: Book club - Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (J.I Packer)
When: Sunday nights, from 8pm - 9pm starting 2nd Oct - 23rd Oct (4 week)
Where: Zoom
And for those who are saying - I don’t read, here’s an excerpt from a book called “Lit” by Tony Reinke:
“Perhaps you love to read. You get the same feeling from a new stack of books as you get from looking at a warm stack of glazed donuts. Maybe not. For most, reading a book is like trying to drink down a huge vitamin. You know you need to read - you’ll be healthier for it - but everything within you refuses to swallow!”
Well, I exhort you church - join us. It will be good for you :)
Email richard@sgparra.org.au to sign up if you are keen and I can send you the Zoom link and order a book for you.
This week the Song’s life group will be providing ‘Burgers and Chips’ for lunch at church after the service, so stick around for all who are keen. There will be GF and Veggie options!
The Burgers are better at… Sovereign Grace!
We are back with Life Groups this week! Your LG leaders will send you all the information you need!
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!
