As part of the Young Leaders Program this year, the cohort will be running a Holiday Kids Club during this upcoming school break! You’re more than welcome to sign your kids up for a fun holiday adventure unearthing the story of Joseph!

Here are the details:

WHAT: For anyone in Years K-6! Each day is packed with fun! You can expect exciting activities, to meet with new friends, to get creative in craft and hear all about how amazing Jesus is from the Bible.

WHERE: Sovereign Grace Church Wahroonga (Fox Valley Community Centre, 183A Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga)

COST: $105 per child

WHEN: 9am-3pm, July 5th-7th

REGISTER: Visit here to secure your child’s spot!

CONTACT INFO: If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Brendan Willis (Director) at bw@sovgrace.org.au.

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 next of which is coming up on Thursday, 13th of July.

If you serve in SG Kids, please lock in this date for our second kids workers training night of the year.
When: 7:30PM, Thursday 13th July
Where: Sovereign Grace Church Parramatta (27 Iron St, North Parramatta)

Attendance at these nights is a crucial part of serving in kids, so please make it a priority to be there. Thankyou!

Just a reminder that these next few weeks, we’re going to trial not having our usual ‘5 Minute Break’.

We will go straight into the sermon from the announcements. The school age children will still head out at the end of the announcements. So please ensure you sign your children in before the service.

Life Groups are on this week! This will be the last meeting for the term, followed by a two week break.

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.

As part of our new sermon series on Lament, we will be learning three new songs to introduce the element of lament into our worship. You can find the links to these songs below if you’d like to listen to and learn them ahead of time.

We Look to You - Sovereign Grace Music

We Look to You SPOTIFY
We Look to You APPLE

All of Our Tomorrows - Sovereign Grace Music

All of Our Tomorrows SPOTIFY
All of Our Tomorrows APPLE

O God of Mercy, Hear Our Plea - Sovereign Grace Music

O God of Mercy, Hear Our Plea SPOTIFY
O God of Mercy, Hear Our Plea APPLE

Much of the new sermon series will be based on this book “Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy - Discovering the Grace of Lament” by Mark Vroegop which is now available in our bookshop located in the church foyer. There are limited copies, so get in quick if you’d like to purchase one! Here is the book’s blurb for a better understanding of its contents:

Where do you turn when the dark clouds of pain, suffering, and loss roll into your life? In a broken world, difficult trials can lead quickly to discouragement and despair-even for Christians. But the Bible sets forth an oft-neglected practice for dealing with such trials: lament. To lament is to turn to God in honest, desperate prayer, giving voice to the reality of our emotions-as intense and tumultuous as they may be. Ultimately, lament is an expression of faith in the God who hears our cries and responds with mercy and grace. Drawing on examples from the Bible and his own story of loss, pastor Mark Vroegop walks through steps of lament (Turn, Complain, Ask, and Trust) to show what lament is, why it is important, and how to enter into it-helping readers learn to live between the poles of God's goodness and a hard life.

These next four weeks we’re going to trial not having our usual ‘5 Minute Break’.

We will go straight into the sermon from the announcements. The school age children will still head out at the end of the announcements. So please ensure you sign your children in before the service.

This Sunday, we will be starting a new sermon series titled “Discovering Lament: A Pathway to Joy in Sorrow”. We are looking forward to walking through this series together as a church and seeing what God’s word has to say on how to lament.

It’s been a joy to hear of how many people have stepped out in faith to invite their family and friends to do Alpha, a simple conversational video series that helps you explore life, faith and meaning.

In the end it didn’t work out to do in the Life Group slot for those who were interested.

But there are a couple of people who will do Alpha on Sunday evening with Ian and Sammy Commerford at their place in Dundas.

And there is room for your friend to go too! So if you have someone you know that couldn’t make midweek or wasn’t yet ready…now may be a good chance to invite them along.

It is starting in two Sundays time. Contact Richard for more details and please be praying!

G2G will be on this Sunday at 4PM.

This week, we will be having a fire night at the Song’s place. Parent and siblings of G2G are also invited! There will be singing, marshmallows and some sharing from the parents.

Given it’s a campfire night, it will run a little later, finishing at 7:30.

We look forward to seeing you there!