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This Sunday
This week I'll be starting a new series on the OT book of Esther in the mornings: It's a short book with plenty of juicy bits. Try and read it once a week during the series. It's especially helpful to read it through in one go a few times - it helps to give a sense of the overall story... this Sunday:
AM: When life is good...thank God (Esther 1-2) June 04
Sometime we are blessed beyond our expectations with opportunity and things going well. We can be tempted to think 'hey, this is the logical consequence of my ingenuity". Really? Should our response be governed by who we are or what we have done?? God wants us to realise that the good we have has come from him, and our call is to honour him in that.
PM: God’s plan is to unite, protect and advance his kingdom in the world
So far in this series in David we have seen God anoint, empower, and protect his king. We have seen David respond as a man / king who is after God’s own heart, trusts God and desires to see God’s honor above all things. But what is this all in aid of? This Sunday evening we begin to see what God is accomplishing through all this, for the kingdom of Israel, and how he is still about the same things in our world today, through his king Jesus.
Discover your gifts and how to use them!
The Bible tells us that as each member uses the gifts the Lord has given them the body of Christ moves toward maturity in thought, ministry and witness. RCRC will be running a course during June and July to help people find out where their gifts lie and how they can serve the Lord better. The course will be held over four Monday nights:
June 19
June 26
July 3
July 10
Each night will run between 7pm and 9pm. This course will help participants understand better who God has uniquely made them to be, and help them understand their place of meaningful service in the church. Learn about how the church works together, and the importance of your own contribution.
Register by emailing dave@redlandscrc.org.au
Cost: $20 to cover your books and materials
DVDs of services now available
Know someone who can't get to RCRC on Sundays? Why not take something of RCRC to them! DVDs of the complete service are available by pre-order. Each DVD costs $5.00. You can arrange this through Frank Hemelaar: frank@royalfoods.com.au
Bunk Beds anyone?
Dave's neighbour has a good set of white tube steel bunks with mattresses to give away to a good home. Interested? Ring Jenny Smith on 0437 640 053 to stake your claim.
Do we know if you are coming to breakfast?
Email office@redlandscrc.org.au to reserve your bacon and eggs, or phone the church office on 3286 4700
If there are any high school students available to help look after small children during the discussion, please email or ring the church office.
Brisbane Kids Games - Update
We are no longer talking weeks, its only 21 days until BKG starts. This week enrolments started to come in, which is very exciting to see as parents and kids get ready for this week. As a team we have been getting ready as well, with a leaders meeting this last week, and a team training day yesterday, Saturday.
Enrolments (IMPORTANT):
It has come to our attention that a number of people have read the forms as being $25 per day for a child, where it is actually $25 for the week. If you have friends who are thinking of sending children along, please bring this to their attention.
As enrolments come in we really want to encourage our own children to participate. Please enroll them this week.
For Volunteers
Remember we have a team meeting after the service this morning. It is really important that every one comes along because there is some important information to share with the group at this time.
For Everyone
Please consider whether you will be able to help with this week. Everyone can…
• Encourage people they know to enroll their children
• Come along and do some cleaning one afternoon to get the church ready for the next day.
• Pray for the event
We would also like to invite people to come along for a BBQ and Bush Dance on the Friday evening (30th June) here at the church. But we want to invite you for a very specific purpose – to speak, welcome and make feel at home visitors from our local community.
Prayer Points:
• Please pray for the children and parents of the community as they consider enrolling
• Pray that God’s Spirit will open up hearts and speak the truth of God into them
• Pray for the team members, as they seek to get everything organized
• Pray for all volunteers, for open hearts to receive the kids
• Pray for safety during the week (and great weather too!)