There is usually a lot going on for each of us on any given Sunday morning! However, if you do find yourself free between 9:30-9:50am on a Sunday, please join us for Pre-Service Prayer as part of our worship each week. We will be meeting in the little paved area in front of the church offices - ALL are welcome! Psalm 127:1 says “Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” Come and join us as we undergird all that we do in prayer and wait expectantly for the Lord to build His house.
The Band Sign Up Lunch will be on after service this coming Sunday!
If you are currently serving in music (including PA and Projector), please make it a priority to come along!! We want to thank you for serving His bride so faithfully the past year, but also to hear what serving in SG Music would look like in 2023.
This is also an open-invite lunch for those who are interested in exploring joining the team. Maybe you are new, or maybe you are being stirred by God to serve in this way?
We currently have needs in these particular area of serving (though all welcome!):
Singers - Male and Female (no requirement to read music, just singing!)
Bass Guitar
PA
Acoustic Guitar
Drums
Is this you? Or is there a brother or sister you could encourage to come along (maybe you’ve heard someone singing next to you on a Sunday)?
We will spend time over lunch considering “Why do we sing?” and what it looks like to serve on the team. My hope is that we all are freshly encouraged from His Word to sing to the Lord and spurred to serve to this end in 2023!
Men’s and Women’s Breakfast are an important part of our church life and we’re excited to let you know our first Breakfasts of the year are coming up! These dates should already be in your calendar if you have subscribed to our church calendar. If you’ve yet to do so, you can find out how to subscribe here.
Please be aware of these dates as we’d love to see you there!
More details to follow in the coming weeks!
It’s Ladies Growth Groups this week! Your LG leader will have all the details you need.
We’re so excited to see our Young Leaders Internship kicking off tonight with a special dinner at the Taylors. We’d love you to join us in praying for our interns that God would really meet with them and bless them throughout the year ahead:
Abella Lick - Parramatta
Georgia Lick - Parramatta
Luke Counsell - Wahroonga
Esther Monck - Wahroonga
Hollie Roberts - Wahroonga
Froilan Samonte - Wahroonga
Josh Taylor - Wahroonga
Amy Taylor - Wahroonga
Marcos Cabral - Wahroonga
Hannah Payne - Wahroonga
Sebastian Fasano - Wahroonga
“For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” 1 Cor 2:2
Sunday was a special day for us as a Church! We gathered for a new preaching series, Living Our Mission, as we look at our mission statement and make sure that we keep the main thing, the main thing.
Head to our Sermons page or the podcast to listen to ‘Knowing the Gospel Deeply’ on 1 Corinthians 2:2.
Point 1: Knowing the Gospel Deeply Means Knowing the Gospel
Point 2: Knowing the Gospel Deeply Means Knowing Jesus
Point 3: Knowing the Gospel Deeply Means Knowing it Passionately
We also had our Envision Meeting, our annual Church Family meeting to launch our year, give reports of God’s kindness to us as a Church over the previous year, information on what’s coming up, staffing, budget, programs, and a chance to hang out and eat pizza!
It was such a joy to see you all lean in with enthusiasm and expectancy for what God will do in and through us as a local church this year. Please be praying for it all!
SG Kids is an integral part of our church’s life and it wouldn’t be possible without the countless volunteers who give up their time, energy and resources to serve the next generation!
Part of what makes this all possible are our biannual training nights - the first of which is coming up on Wednesday, the 22nd of February.
If you serve in SG Kids, please lock in this date for our first kids workers training night of the year. More details to come. Attendance at these nights is a crucial part of serving in kids, so please make it a priority to be there.
Please follow the instructions below to subscribe to our church calendar and stay up to date with important events within the church.
For iPhone users:
If clicking on the link below doesn't do the trick, then try this on your phone:
Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add Subscribed Calendar > Paste link. Repeat for each calendar.
For Android users:
Follow this quick tutorial to subscribe to each calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcPO-jO2eI
Links:
If you have any problems subscribing to the calendar, contact Rebs at admin@sgparra.org.au.
Here’s a quick look at what’s coming up in the month of Feb:
Wednesday, 1st Feb and Thursday, 2nd Feb - Life Group Begins
Sunday, 12th Feb - Starting Point
Sunday, 12th Feb - Band Sign Up Lunch
Sunday, 19th Feb - First G2G (Parent Participation)
Wednesday, 22nd Feb - SG Kids Workers Night
Life Groups are back this week! Life Groups are so vital for us as a Church as they allow us to take the joy of Sunday and work out in smaller communities where we can know each other more deeply and help each other out more personally.
As much as is possible, it’s our aim for every member to attend Life Group or Growth Group, every time it’s on! This isn’t a rule or a new law, rather, we’d love that these special times go in our calendars first because they’re so good and so vital for our growth AND they are a key way we each play a part in serving each other in the church.
For some, this is made difficult because of shift work, travel, or baby sitting needs. To help you, please find the Semester 1 Life Group Calendar attached here so that you can look ahead to when your group is on and organize your calendar/sitting around that if possible.
It’s so great when the most amount of people can be regularly be at group where possible!
I hope Life Groups and Growth Groups bless you great this year!