We will be holding a Democracy Sausage Sizzle on Election Day this year! This will be a great opportunity for outreach and connecting with the local community.
It will be held at Iron Street on Saturday, the 25th of March.
There will be opportunities to volunteer on the day for the following: set up, pack down, sausage sizzle and coffee. If you are interested in helping out at all on the day, please contact Abella or Georgia Lick.
Thankyou!
As many of you know, Bob Kauflin will be coming out to Australia at the end of April this year! This will be an exciting opportunity to get to learn about all things worship through song. One way we will be doing this is through a training morning with Bob.
This is open to all band + PA members, so please book it in your calendars as it will be an invaluable time of training and teaching!
When: 9am-12pm, Saturday 29th April
Where: Iron Street (27 Iron St, North Parramatta)
It’s Ladies Growth Groups this week! Your LG leader will have all the details you need.
Here’s a quick look at what’s coming up in the month of March:
Sunday, 5th March:
Lunch after Church
Sunday Night Services Commence! - “What Happened on the Cross: Big Words that End in ‘tion!”
Saturday, 11th March: Men’s Breakfast
Sunday, 12th March: Sunday Night Service - “What Happened on the Cross: Big Words that End in ‘tion!”
Saturday, 18th March: Women’s Breakfast
Sunday, 19th Feb: G2G (Parent Participation)
Friday, 24th March: Mission Prayer Night
Saturday, 25th March: Election Day BBQ at Iron St
Sunday, 26th March: Sunday Night Service - “What Happened on the Cross: Big Words that End in ‘tion!”
On Sunday, we announced our Go Forward Fund details for the year.
There’s absolutely NO pressure to give to the GFF, which is on top of your usual tithes and offerings, but if you’d like to then here’s what we’re going to be collecting for this year:
1. Building Fund
There’s no doubt that Church is more than a building. Church is family. But every family needs a home!
As you’ve experienced, it has been so great to be in and a part of our local neighbourhood and to have our own space 24/7! Our current venue is great, but it’s not ours and it’s not permanent. And so we want to invest in having a more permanent home in Parramatta—a place where we can continue to be used by the Lord to make Jesus known, to serve our community, and to build up our church family.
We’ve already started this fund and placed a deposit into it to get the ball rolling, but in order to make this a reality we are going to need a lot of faith-filled risky givers. So please consider how you’d like to give to this.
2. Future Leaders
It is one of our great hopes and needs as a young church plant to invest in, raise up, and train future leaders within our church, and even to be looking out to how we can be sending men to support future church plants. In order to do this, we need to be setting aside finances to cover wages, education, and fellowship experiences (like SG Pastors Conference) so that we raise up the next generation of not merely ‘leaders’ but Sovereign Grace Leaders who share our vision and values. Portions of this fund will be used to fund Richard and Joel’s Pastoral Internship and the Young Leaders Internship program, as well as provide opportunities as needs arise in the future.
3. Sovereign Grace Churches - Global Missions
Sovereign Grace Churches is our family of Churches. A family who partners together to advance the gospel in Jesus Christ, seeking to fulfil our mission by planting and strengthening churches, training pastors, producing gospel-centered resources, and engaging in missions throughout the world. We’re presently enjoying playing our part in gospel work in over 38 different countries, including places like the USA, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, UK, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Philippines, South Korea, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Liberia, Zambia, Sierra Leonne and India. It’s a big world out there and we’re definitely thrilled to play our part! Yet we have more gospel opportunities than we have the ability to fund.
That’s why we want to once again give to global mission in our family of churches. Sovereign Grace has two churches in Australia because other churches gave so generously, and we at Sovereign Grace Parramatta now have the opportunity to play our part in the story of others across the globe, all for the glory of God.
Friends, thanks for always considering opportunities to give so diligently and enthusiastically. I truly feel privileged and blessed to be a part of this Church, and, as ever, I can’t wait to see what God is going to do in the hearts and lives of people as a result.
For a copy of the Go Forward Fund Giving Form, click here.
Starting this Sunday, 5th March, we will be holding a Sunday Night Service from 6pm at Iron St. The theme across the three weeks (5th, 12th, 26th March) will be “What Happened on the Cross: Big Words that End in ‘tion’!”
We would love for you to invite family and friends along as it will be a great opportunity to hear a deep dive into the Gospel.
We look forward to seeing you there if you can make it!
Although, we will not officially be partnering with ICM this year, we still believe that it is a valuable ministry to support if this is something you feel the Lord is leading you to do. One of the ways you can support ICM is by booking a seat and going along to the annual ICM Dinner. Please see the details of the event in the image above. To find out more information and/or to book a seat, click here.
If you’d like to see if anyone else in our church is attending so you can attend the event together, please contact Arbie Magno (arbie.magno@gmail.com).
If you’re interested in getting baptised, we will be holding a class on Sunday the 19th of March at 8:55am in the Church Offices. This will be an opportunity for you to find out more about what we believe the Bible says about baptism and why it is a significant moment in the life of a Christian.
If you’d like to sign up for the class, please contact Rebs at admin@sgparra.org.au.
Life Groups are on 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. We hope that this time together with your group blesses you!
Your LG leaders will send you all the information you need for this week.
On Sunday afternoon, we launched Generation to Generation (G2G) with a vision and games afternoon for our youth and their parents!
G2G is our church’s youth program which we’ve launched this year for school age children in years three to eight. It runs monthly on a Sunday afternoon (4-6pm) at the Iron Street Chapel.
Our inaugural G2G event was a huge success (by both the youths’ and the parents’ standards) with Joel Seric and the G2G leaders (Marcus & Baree Tripodi and Richard & Sara Kapoor) running the afternoon. It began with worship through song, followed by some vision casting from Joel and teaching from Riley, then some community building games.
G2G is an open event and a great opportunity to invite friends along who have children in this age range in the hopes that they would hear the Gospel.
The upcoming dates are:
19th March (4-6pm) - Games and Youth Talk
23rd April (4-6pm) - Easter
28th May (4-6pm) - Mission Night
25th June (4-6pm) - Campfire Night
If you have any questions about G2G, please contact Joel Seric on 0488 745 974.