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.
Advent season is upon us and it is a great time to intentionally focus in on Jesus, our Saviour entering into the world and into humanity to redeem it.
Here is a resource (An Advent Reading Plan based on The Biggest Story Bible Storybook) that may be helpful to go through with your household at this time:
The Biggest Story Advent Reading Plan
We pray that it blesses you!
Our SG Parra Women’s Social is coming up! We are holding a wreath-making event in the lead up to Christmas and we hope that this would be a great event to invite our friends and family as an outreach opportunity.
When: 7:30-9:30PM, Friday 8th December
Where: 27 Iron St, North Parramatta
What: Wreath Making (all materials provided) + supper
Cost: $15pp (shout a friend to come along!)
RSVP: admin@sgparra.org.au
We hope you can make it!
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
It’s Ladies Growth Groups this week! Your LG leader will have all the details you need.
As you may know, our pastoral team and their wives have just returned from a 10-day whirlwind trip to the U.S.! It was a great time of fellowship, teaching and refreshment as we, once again, got to see what God is doing beyond our little corner of the world, and were reminded of what a gift it is to be a part of the global family of churches that is Sovereign Grace.
We stayed in Louisville for the first few days, which is where Riley and Maddie lived for a year whilst Riley attended the Sovereign Grace Pastors College. We were met with the warmest hospitality from members of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. Riley also spent some time teaching at a Mens Event on the Saturday night and at the Sunday Gathering that weekend. We also got to enjoy a sneaky little tour of the newly built Sovereign Grace Music recording studio! It was a sweet experience of home away from home as we joined SGC Louisville in worship and fellowship over those initial few days.
From Louisville, we made our way over to Orlando, Florida for the annual Sovereign Grace Pastors and Wives Conference. Over the next four days, we had the privilege of joining with 800 other pastors and wives in being refreshed by great worship, teaching and fellowship and having our faith stoked by the Gospel unity that was so strongly evident in our times together.
The theme of this year’s conference was “The Church of Christ and the Triumph of Truth”, and many of the plenary sessions were centred on the charge to pastors and churches to hold fast to the Truth of God’s word, especially in this current climate where many are being pulled along with the cultural tide. It was a weighty and helpful reminder to move forward not just with hearts that are open to this broken world, but also with Bibles open in our pulpits and our homes.
All in all, we had a wonderful time away together and are so grateful to the Lord for all that He is doing around the world in and through our family of churches. The sweetest part of it all, though, was getting to come home on the Sunday morning, joining in on our church’s gathering and knowing that we could get that same refreshment right back here in Sovereign Grace Church Parramatta. There’s no place like it!
You can listen to all the talks and breakout sessions from the 2023 Pastors and Wives Conference here!
Mission Prayer is on this Friday.
Everyone in the church is invited and we’d love for you to join us in praying for the lost.
When: Friday, November 24th, 7:30pm
Where: Iron Street (27 Iron St., North Parramatta)
Hope to see you all there!
The SG Parra Men’s Social is coming up this Saturday Night.
Please contact Joel Seric (joel@sgparra.org.au) if you have any questions about the event.
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
G2G will be on this Sunday from 4-6pm.
Parents are invited to participate this week. 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!