G’day Church

With Spring coming, the flowers appearing and the sun shining we thank God for the seasons and especially the new life of this time of the year. Nothing says spring like a mother duck leading a bunch of ducklings!!  But no new life is like the resurrection life we have in Jesus- and we can enjoy that all year round and for all eternity!!

Here is a few things happening at ABC…

* Please join us in praying for the Great Southern Women’s Convention this Saturday at ABC

* Can you put in your diary our Church Banquet on the 5th and 6th of November? This is a weekend of feasting on good food and on God’s word while enjoying a rich time of community. 

* I want to say thank you to Gordon Webster on behalf of all of us for 10 years of volunteering as our safe church administrator. Gordon has served us tirelessly in an effort to make sure ABC is a safe place for all.  Thank you, Gordon!!

* We are looking for someone willing to volunteer to oversee our safe church admin. If you are able to give some time each week and enjoy working with people and doing admin, then I would love to chat to you about this.

* We have been having a few technical issues with getting sound to work on our live stream.  With winter coming to an end next week we will bring our live stream to an end in Mid September. The sermons will still go online on Mondays (usually). While the life stream has served us for a time, we also realise that the church since Acts has been the gathered people of God.

* As we head into 2023 we have a couple of staffing opportunities. Could you pray that God would provide the right people for these roles?

Firstly Jordan will be moving some of his time to adult ministry and especially preaching more regularly and so we will need a youth pastor 2 days a week

Secondly we would love to employ someone part time to be ‘Regional Pastor’ of our Great Southern Baptist Churches.  We long for God’s kingdom to grow and having healthy churches across the Great Southern that are reaching their own communities is such a big part of that. This person would give support, training, encouragement across the Great Southern and help make sure all churches have healthy pastors

* Camp Kennedy comes under the management of the Great Southern Baptist Churches on the 3rd of September (Busy Bee day).  We are looking for a few people to go and stay out there in 2 week blocks to keep an eye on the place before permanent care takers start up. Just reply to this if you are keen for a couple of weeks of space and beach.

* In the next couple of weeks you will be formally asked to consider doing an internship in 2023 or applying for the Gap Year Interns role/s. Be praying about this or tap someone on the shoulder if you think they should.

* Finally John is looking for a few new welcomers on Saturday service. Again just reply to this if you would like to serve in this way and I’ll pass on.

Off to search for Ducklings!!

Phil