This Sunday, we will be celebrating our 4th birthday as a church!
It will be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate God’s faithfulness to us over the last four years. We will also be celebrating baptisms and holding a sausage sizzle lunch after the service.
Please feel free to invite your friends and family for this special occasion!
When: 10AM this Sunday, 17th September (coffee and tea served from 9:30!)
Where: 27 Iron Street, North Parramatta
We look forward to celebrating with you!
As you know, we will be having our next women’s breakfast this Saturday!
This is a great opportunity for some unhurried fellowship and great teaching on an important topic.
It is not too late to join us! If you are planning on coming along, please RSVP to the details below. Thankyou!
When: 8:30-10:30am, Saturday 16th September
Where: Church (27 Iron Street, North Parramatta)
Cost: $5pp
RSVP: Rebs (admin@sgparra.org.au)
We hope to see you there!
G2G will be on this Sunday from 4-6pm.
There will be games and a youth talk running for the kids alongside a training session for parents. This will be a valuable opportunity for discipleship of both groups.
All parents (not just G2G parents) are invited to join the training session. However, please be mindful that there will not be supervision provided for younger siblings or children outside of the G2G age group (years 3-8).
We look forward to seeing you there!
"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." Deuteronomy 6:6-7
The Bible is clear that the teaching of the word of God to our children cannot be limited to a two-hour timeslot on a Sunday morning. Nor should it be reserved merely for the leaders who are rostered on each week. It is a shared duty of our church to be teaching and encouraging our children in the Word. First and foremost, it is parents who bear this responsibility. The front line of raising children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord happens around dinner tables, at bed-sides, or during daily car trips to school.
"What did you learn at kids church today?"
I know many of us have struggled to piece together the few facts our children recall from their morning in SG Kids. We try to cryptically deduce the main idea of the story based on the remains of the craft they have brought home. It can be difficult to know how to best reinforce the biblical lesson at home.
Introducing - SG Kids Spot
From this week, we are going to be including a small graphic in each week's blog which outlines:
The story being taught at SG Kids this Sunday.
The 'Christ Connection' blurb (the main idea of the story).
The current memory verse the children are working on.
It is our hope that this will help parents in their efforts to engage their children in conversations about their learning at SG Kids, to expound upon and apply that learning in their own homes, and perhaps even to prepare their child before Sunday for the story that will be taught.
If you're not a parent, I encourage you to check out the SG Kids Spot each week. It may be a handy piece of background knowledge to spark up a conversation after church with one of our children. They love chatting to the adults of our church and it would be of great benefit for them to see you take an interest in what they're learning about in kids church.
May this weekly, small, colourful square be a blessing to you as you carry out God's calling to teach His Word to the next generation.
John Carr
SG Kids Director
Guys Growth Groups are on this week! Your LG leaders will let you know all the details.
The pastoral team will be going away from this Sunday afternoon 10th - 12th September for their annual prayer and planning retreat. Please be praying for them as they spend time praying and planning for the remainder of the year and beyond.
Things to be praying for:
Clarity of vision
Godly wisdom as they think through ideas and plan
A spirit of unity within the team
We look forward to what God will do in and through this time!
As you know, have our next women’s breakfast coming up in just over a week!
This is a great opportunity for some unhurried fellowship and great teaching on an important topic.
It is not too late to join us! If you are planning on coming along, please RSVP to the details below. Thankyou!
When: 8:30-10:30am, Saturday 16th September
Where: Church (27 Iron Street, North Parramatta)
Cost: $5pp
RSVP: Rebs (admin@sgparra.org.au)
We hope to see you there!
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.
This Sunday, we will be celebrating the dad’s of our church for Father’s Day! We are so grateful for all the dads at Sovereign Grace Parramatta and are looking forward to honouring them this Sunday as a church community!
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.