Prayer Focus: Sunshine Coast Chinese Christian Church (10 Mar 2019)

SCCCC is the Sunshine Coast’s only Chinese-language congregation. The congregation meets in Grace’s facilities on Sunday afternoons. The church has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. When the church was founded, there were only an estimated 300 Chinese language speakers on the Sunshine Coast. Today, over 3000 Chinese language speakers call...

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Devotional: “Praying When You Suffer” (20 Jan 2019)

We’re working through the Old Testament book of Lamentations at our Sunday morning worship services. A high-point in the book is how experiencing suffering under God’s hand often leads to a clearer revelation of who God is and what he is like. For this reason, Jeremiah recommends praying as a...

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Prayer Focus: Worship (13 Jan 2018)

Please use these points to guide your prayers this week. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” (Colossians 3:16 ESV) Thank God for the privilege of...

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Prayer Focus 16 Dec 2018

Our prayer focus for this week is ‘The Christmas Season’. Join us in praying around these items this week. Thank the Lord for sending his Son Jesus to be our salvation Pray for those struggling and suffering at this time of year that they might find peace, grace, hope and...

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When Ora is Labora

Monasteries were known (and are still known) as places of prayer. In Latin, prayer is ora. The monasteries were also places of work, labora. The life of the monks, then, was ora et labora, prayer and work. If we know anything about prayer, it is often the case that the...

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