It is important that we together as the Church pray for the leaders that the Lord has appointed. Would you please pray for our active elders: Clint Lombard, John Butler, Tim Richards, and Brad Joyce; and for our deacon, Paul Beard? Please also include elder candidate Renier Scheepers, and all...
Church Life Spot: Leadership Update Each fifth Sunday in our Church Life Spot our focus is on an update from our congregation’s leaders. We want to highlight a few areas for your prayerful attention. Worship Service Attendance: With regard to attendance, we thank the Lord for growth at Grace at...
What does the sinking of the Titanic have to teach us about the urgent need for the gospel in our communities?
Our Ministry Spotlight at this week’s services focussed on our ministries in local aged care facilities. Let’s remember to pray for those among us who are more advanced in years. ‘…even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and...
The Christians in the Macedonian town of Thessalonica were eagerly awaiting Jesus’ return, barely 20 years after his ascension to heaven. But their eager expectation of Jesus’ soon-to-happen second coming made them very anxious about those who among them who had died before Jesus had come back. Paul wrote to...
Tim McNamara (Neighbour’s Aid/Nambour Christian College) Malawi, a tiny country in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s poorest nations. Since 2005 Neighbours Aid has partnered with Malawi NGO Shekinah Education Foundation for Orphan’s Relief and Development in establishing a children’s home for orphaned and vulnerable children, two primary schools,...
I was visiting an elderly man in a local nursing home. After talking to him for a while, as I usually do, I asked if I could read something from the Bible for him to encourage him. I read from John’s gospel. As I read, I could hear him quietly...
In Matthew 9:38 Jesus said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.’ (Matthew 9:37–38 ESV) Join us this week as we obey Jesus’ command to pray for gospel workers....
Our devotional this week encourages us to think about those who have stopped fellowshipping with us, and how we might encourage them in the spirit of Hebrews 10:24-25. There are many reasons why people may no longer come to church regularly. Here are some ways we can pray for them....
Hebrews 10:24-25 is the go-to ‘you should be coming to church’ Bible verse. ‘And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see...