Love and respect

Following up our talk on Husbands and wives, we highly recommend Love and Respect By Dr. Emerson Eggerichs. A Focus on the Family Publication

The book takes further our discussion of the Ephesians 5:22-33 passage applying God's blueprint for marriage to real life situations. It explores how married men and women ought to live and is practical in applying good biblical teaching to the reality of marriage in the real world.

A wife longs to feel loved, A husband longs to be respected

"The road to a lasting love and respect marriage is a lifelong one, and there is no way you can travel it in your own strength. The task is overwhelming, and you need the help from your heavenly Father, who knows your heart. if you want to do your marriage as unto Christ, you must ask Christ for help. Remember, Jesus said apart from me you can do nothing...."

Ten AM move to Rosalie Update

You might be wondering where we are at with TenAM’s proposed move to Rosalie. We have been waiting for a number of issues to fall into place at the School side of things. At the School Council Meeting last Thursday, Principal Mike Lasscock confirmed three things:

1. The P& C will build a storage shed funded by them, but with space for 300 chairs for our Sunday use. (We plan to buy the chairs to share with the School)

2. St. Matt’s is welcome to use the undercover area on a Sunday for TenAM. An appropriate written agreement is being drafted.

3. Projects to upgrade the undercover area will be approved by School Council on a project by project basis. We are investigating all purpose carpeting and sealing for weather.

This means our expected financial commitment will be significantly lower than the initial proposal of a jointly funded bricked storage area. December looks the most likely start date when school finishes, which would give us Christmas Holidays to leave the chairs up in the undercover area and settle in.

From our point of view this moves us to phase 2 where we need formalise and finalise our logistics, and more importantly we need to plan our deliberate outreach to the community from this new platform.
A more detailed timetable will be distributed in the next couple of weeks.

We invite you to a planning meeting for TenAM outreach Sunday 14th September 2:00pm-4:00pm.

Please See Gavin or Kanishka or Khim for any questions

Gavin

Workshops for Blokes

We are preaching on marriage and families in the next couple of weeks.

We are having complimentary workshops to follow up the topics for topic and application:

1. How to Love your wife 7:45 pm to 9:30pmish Thursday, 4th September.

2. How to lead your kids 7:45 pm to 9:30pmish Wednesday, 24th September.

RSVP Church office 9381 2640

St Matthew's office@stmattsshentonpark.org.au

Caring for Your Missionary #1 Prayer

We are all members together of the ‘household of Christ’; co-workers and partners in the gospel. “As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts to grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.” (Ephesians 4:16, NLT). We therefore bear the obligations to care for each other as we are interdependent on each other. The St Matthew’s Missions Working Group hopes that by now you have chosen a missionary from the board in the foyer to ‘adopt’.

As a sending church we have the privilege of being able to care for our missionaries in partnership with their mission agency and their receiving church. We should take our responsibility seriously and ensure that we support the people we send.

How can we do this? The most important thing we can do is to pray for your missionary. As well as praying for your missionary on your own, you can help by bringing your missionary’s prayer needs before other people.

Here are some prayer ideas:

Include a prayer for your missionary in your family prayer & Bible study.
Distribute their prayer points and newsletters to members of your congregation and small groups.
Pass on prayer points to the Kid’s Church leaders. CMS missionary Sue Jaggar recently received drawings from Sunday School children, and was delighted to know a six year old was praying for her.
Collect email addresses so that the mission agency can email your adopted missionaries’ prayer points directly to individual people.
Join a missions prayer group or start one of your own. St Matthew’s currently has mission prayer groups that meet on a Monday night and every Thursday morning.
Encourage people to take part in mission events, eg CMS’s annual Missionary Awareness Conference.

Check up on recent prayer points on your missionary’s blog or the mission agency’s website. Most agencies offer regular prayer point updates through email subscriptions or RSS feeds. Let missionaries know about your prayers—Russell and Kay Clark, missionaries in Tanzania, said “the best thing is to hear that we are being prayed for”.
Khim Harris

Postcard from Groote:The Anindilyakwa Bible

Dear Gavin

I was so excited to be able to give away this copy of the
Anindilyakwa mini-Bible on behalf of you and the CMS-WA group.
Veronica came around to my place to have some fellowship, supported shyly by her husband who stayed well and truly in the background. We did some practice reading in Kriol and English, because Veronica is a Kriol speaker from Numbulwar. Then she thought she might have a go at Anindilyakwa, but it was very obvious that her language skills were not up to it, and gradually her husband came closer and closer, because he grew up at Angurugu, thought they live over on Bickerton Island now. He could recognise and understand easily, and he started to support her efforts.

I was able to have a talk with him, sensed he was interested in reading more, and decided this was the right time to give away mini- bible no 1.

Since then he has joined the baptism class. Wonderful, huh?

Gavin, I am audaciously asking for help for Linguistics. The Gospel of John has been translated and revised. There are no copies left for the GE Christians to buy. Before I left for holidays I was only able to photocopy some of the Gospel of John in Anindilyakwa, and I really wanted to get that all finished. Do you think there are people in your church who could take what I have done, plus the rest of the masters, and complete the books?? I could get the Linguistics workers to post it all down to you and then you could post all the completed ones back in installments, or lots of them could wait until someone was travelling north. What do you think??


Many blessings

Elizabeth


GP: Let me know if you can help me put some John's Gospels together for the Groote Aboriginals!

Missions – the Ultimate Goal?

Today you can make a simple decision that could have a Kingdom impact. The St Matthew’s Missions Working Group is inviting you to join in God’s mission and ours by adopting a missionary. This is an easy, three step process:
1. Decide who you are going to adopt by checking out the pictures on the walls or reading their biographies at www.stmattsshentonpark.org.au
2. See someone at the Global Gospel Focus Adoption Desk in the foyer today
3. Read the next four editions of the church bulletin to learn how you can care for your adopted missionary including by:
• praying for them;
• keeping in touch with them;
• treating them; and
• looking after their financial needs.

During this month of Global Gospel Focus the St Matthew’s Missions Working Group is on a mission for missions! However, the most crucial issue in missions is the centrality of God in the life of the church. Our main goal is the worship of God. Mission exists because worship doesn’t. Well-known author John Piper puts it this way:

Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions. It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into the white-hot enjoyment of God’s glory. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God. “The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice!” (Psalm 97:1). “May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy!” (Psalm 67:3–4).

But worship is also the fuel of missions. Passion for God in worship precedes the offer of God in preaching. You can’t commend what you don’t cherish. Missionaries will never call out, “Let the nations be glad!” who cannot say from the heart, “I rejoice in the Lord…I will be glad and exult in you, I will sing praise to your name, O Most High” (Psalm 104:34; 9:2). Missions begins and ends in worship.

We need to be centred on the exultation of the majesty and beauty of God in order to have a desire to “declare his glory among all the nations” (Psalm 96:3). Let us make the worship of God our main focus. Only then will we start to have a global gospel focus. (John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad! Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003, p. 17),

Khim Harris

Pop Quiz for Shenton Christian Council

Shenton Chrisitian Council invites you to

POP Quiz (Not your average Quiz Night...)

Hi Everyone! It's time to get together a table for the annual QUIZ NIGHT in support of ... well, Shane & Myself ! (School Chaplains).
It is also a fun night to relax together and enjoy a bit of rivalry ... (Wed. Week 7)
Either get a team of 8 together (including partners) or just let Steve know you're keen to come and we'll form a team of 'rogue' individuals.

This year promises to be a much more interactive/stimulating POP QUIZ

with Funky QuizMaster Gav - Video & Music challenges! :)
Try and RSVP by the end of next week if you can ...

Steve Ritchie 0421 478 507

Laurel Collin 9381 8095

Cheers Steve Ritchie