Speedy Christmas

Here is a quirky summary of the Christmas story I Found

Carols and readings

This Sunday at TenAM we are celebrating Christmas with our carols and readings service. Feel free to invite family and friends to carol with us and celebrate the significance of the birth of Jesus.
8am and 5pm are also having Carols and Readings.

Unichurch are having Carols in the sunken gardens
6:00pm for picnic dinner and 7:00 pm for carols.

We wish you a merry Christmas......

PYLC 2009: Future Proof

Perth Youth Leadership Conference

Jan Mon 19- Thurs 22, 2009

Future Proof

preparing youth for the end

Allan Chapple on the Book of Revelation

Steve Jeffrey on the book of Ezekiel

Click here for more info and online rego !

GP

NEW: St. Matthew's youth blog

Hi All,

As Matt promised he has created a new St. Matt's youth Blog.

Matt plans to have some things happening in the holiday period.

Stay tuned!



Click here for NEW St. Matt's Youth Blog


Cheers

GP

An opportunity to serve at TenAM

Paul uses the picture of a human body to describe the interdependant relationships in a church family. It is a good picture to apply to TenAM. We have opportunities to serve as we make a move to Rosalie. 1 Corinthians 12 says:

Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?  But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand... there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it...

Everyone has a part to play in the life on TenAM church. Everyone has a part to play in our move to Rosalie School. We have smoothed out the details of the move to Rosalie with the School. Have got the final green light. We are purchasing the chairs, We are purchasing the PA, We advancing the carpet, We are advancing signage.

We need to work together to transform our present serving ministries into this new context.
We need to work together to plan the way we will connect with our local community and yours.
We need to work together in our administration. Perhaps some of you could help behind the scenes producing powerpoints and participating in pastoral care, assisting our admin.

We need to work together to prepare the undercover area for Sunday. We want to roster all our abled bodied adults in teams of 5 or 6 to set up chairs. This way each team would only have to set up chairs once a term or a block of one month a year. This way we can sustain our effort and share the load. From our Christmas experience it takes 5 people 40 mins to put out chairs. If you are able bodied we need your help to share the load. We need help with our music and our PA. We want to train up more people to set up PA.

We need to work together in our hospitality at Rosalie. We need to work together on our resources and publications and communications, If you have time or expertise in such things please let us know. We need to work together in growing our small groups and our small group leaders.

This move is an opportunity to extend our service to each other and the local community to
We are moving to Rosalie on a permanent basis on the 18th of January. This will be a soft launch to give us time to adjust to the new regime of set up.

At Easter we will do a “hard launch” Promoting Easter, Rosalie, and Autumn Fest.

Please pray, please get involved, please help us to serve our community

GP

Did you want to catch a talk you missed?

Did you want to catch a talk you missed? Or forward a talk to a friend?

check out our online talk catalogue

Click Below for the link!

Click here to find our Talk Downloads

Cheers

Gavin

Family Christmas Service this Week 14th December

Hello TenAM,

This is a reminder that TenAM is having the Christmas Family Service 10am this Sunday. It is a chance for us to celebrate with the children and youth of our church family through their presence and participation.

Please stay for a sausage !

Gavin

Foxfires heads UP

Hi all,

Again another massive year has passed for the Foxfire Ministry.

Though I would love to tell you some of the amazing stories of God’s provision, of hardship overcome and the courage and faith of our teams, the PowerPoint would go forever.

For some of our Foxfires it has been an enormously hard year. At points of the year we were wondering if the guys would make it and yet, I have been told of amazing stories of perseverance, reconciliation and God’s love prevailing. Ministry in Africa especially to young people is so challenging. We are blessed to have every opportunity.

Please find attached our humble report, I had hoped for a second piece of video but the footage could not be caught.

I trust you’re blessed this Christmas and we would be honoured if you would join with us again next year following the Foxfires ministry.

Every blessing

Ant

Anthony Sell
Director of Ministry Development


2G/5 Byfield Street, Macquarie Park NSW 2113, AustraliaMob: 0424 442 850
Skype: sellyaesyd
Tel: +61 2 9889 1799 ext 12
Fax: +61 2 9889 1733anthony.sell@africanenterprise.com.auhttp://www.africanenterprise.com.au/

Hospitality: Part 2

What does hospitality look like for us at TenAM?What will hospitality look like for us at Rosalie ? In our church family, hospitality is part of our pastoral care of each other. Formally, with our welcoming team. Formally through morning teas and hospitality lunches. Formally with our network of small groups and through church events. Formally through playgroup, ESL, CRE etc.. Informally we show hospitality all over the place.

Hospitality is also an instrument of outreach. Hospitality is not about the food. Hospitality is about the relationships. I want to encourage you to get together with a couple of other TenAM people or families and host a breakfast, or host a brunch, or a BBQ, or an afternoon tea, or a meal, or a lunch, or a picnic. Bring your church family together with people in your network of relationships. We are calling people to be deliberate with their hospitality next year. Being deliberate with your invites and deliberate with your conversations. Imagine if we all did it once a term how many people we could bring into the orbit of our God and his church family.

Be deliberate about your diary
Be deliberate about your invitations
Be deliberate about your prayer
Be deliberate about your conversations
Be deliberate about your teamwork

GP

Hospitality Part 1

1. Hospitality & God’s heart

All through the Bible, God loves the stranger. All through the Bible God encourages his people to love the stranger. for example Leviticus 19:34 says ”‘When a stranger lives with you in your land, do not mistreat them.  The stranger living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were strangers in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. In the NT the word translated 'hospitality' literally means love the stranger. We read "Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality:. Romans 12; "Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it." Hebrews 13. "We ought therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth." 3 John etc.

As we work towards moving TenAM to Rosalie:

We want to be a community that loves as God has loved us.
We want to be a community that welcomes as God had welcomed us
We want to be a community that loves the stranger as God loves the stranger.
Sometimes that is uncomfortable, I was part of a small growing church where one of the old regulars grumbled to me “the new people don’t talk to me..” but The God of the Bible is a God of Hospitality. We are called to do likewise

GP

It's beggining to feel a lot like Christmas

Christmas at St. Matt's is coming !

1. 14 Dec TenAM Christmas Family Service

2. 21 Dec TenAM Carols and Readings

3. 22-24 Dec Christmas Kids Workshop 9:00am to 12:00pm For Primary School aged Children Yr 1-6

4. 24 Dec 6:00pm Kids 'n' Carols At Rosalie School

5. 24 Dec 11:00pm Traditional Christmas Service

6. 25 Dec 8:00am Christmas Communion Service at Church

7. 25 Dec 9:30am Family Christmas Service at Rosalie School


You might have family, friends, and neighbours that you could invite to one of our Christmas events to celebrate with us and hear of Jesus.

See you there !

Gavin

David and Goliath for the visual learners

David and Goliath for the visual learner !

There will be blood!

GP