Easter is easily one of the most important dates on our calendar each year, and this year is no different! We are so looking forward to marking the death, burial and resurrection of our Saviour with a Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday service at Iron St:

Good Friday Service: 7th April at 10am

Easter Sunday Service: 9th April at 10am

Please feel free to invite friends and family along to both services! This will be a wonderful opportunity for all to either be reminded of the Gospel or to hear it for the first time.

The Men’s Breakfast is on this Saturday. These breakfasts are a great opportunity for fellowship and teaching specific to biblical manhood. This breakfast, we will be looking at The Roll of The Die: How to Have Certainty in an Uncertain World.

When: 8-10am this Sat, 11th March

Where: Iron Street

Cost: $5

RSVP to admin@sgparra.org.au

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:

BUILDING LOCALLY

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.

HELPING GLOBALLY 

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.