Welcome

Good morning everyone!

Hi church family.

Hopefully you’ll be aware that we are back meeting together 9:30am each Sunday with a real, in person service! Like every other church, this new service under the new COVID restrictions has had it’s share of challenges. Upgrading the tech side of things to allow for video recording to be shared online, and also duplicating our chapel area to the space in our “outback” to cater for social distancing , is still a work in progress.

Thank you for your patience and support during this new season. Feel free to come along each Sunday as we can so far cater for everyone without the need for pre-regisration. However if you are happy to watch the sermon online in the comfort of your home, that will also be quite ok.

Continue to pray with us for our leaders and community so that we will not see the return of a lockdown period in QLD.

I look forward to connecting with you in person and would like to make a special welcome to those who have just joined us since all the enforced changes have come into place. God Bless and have a great week serving God wherever He has placed you.

Pastor Brendan.

From the Pastor...

This Week’s Sermon

Proof of the Resurrection

Acts 1:1-15 (NIV)

1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach ²until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. ³After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. ⁴On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. ⁵For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

⁶Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. ⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

⁹After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

¹²Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. ¹³When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. ¹⁴They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

¹⁵In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)