Read Michele's email and then open the Newsletter below to read about:
- Lockdown - making pumpkin soup and a helping with a food drive
- Commencement of school
- Fun with Flora during lockdown
- Update of Flora's international adoption
- Prayer requests
Hi Friends,
Just a quick newsletter to tell you that we are out of lockdown - yay! Hopefully a little glimpse of what lockdown was like for us and some very exciting news we received last week,
Read on - and do tell us how you are going,
Blessings,
Michele and Flora.
April 2 Good Friday Communion
April 4 Easter Day “The NEW Truth About You”
March 14 “We're Never Really Ready”
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew:28:16-20
March 21 “The Last bit”
17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew:20:17-28
March 28 “You Don't Know the Truth About You”
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew: 6:22-23
Michele shares her current situation and requests prayer for the many whose circumstances have become much more difficult as Rwanda is in a second lock down due to the Coronavirus.
Open Michele's Newsletter below for details.
SECURING OUR FUTURE
February 7 “Only in Community”
Gen 2. "Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone.'"
(Service will include Communion)
February 14 “Crucial Conversations”
Lev 19. "Do not go about spreading slander among your people. Do not do anything that endangers your neighbour’s life. I am the Lord. Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour frankly so you will not share in their guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself."
February 28 Unity... Liberty.... Charity
"In Essentials unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity."
February 28 “When Fellowship Becomes Real”
Hebrews 10:24-25 "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together...not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
March 7 “Life Together”
Psalm 133:1 "...how good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in unity."
Merry Christmas from Michele and Flora
Hello Friends,
Here is our Christmas newsletter to share with you.
We are now both on school holidays until January 18th and are so looking forward to some down time together. Pools were open but closed after like a week, hotels are open but now you need a negative COVID test to stay anywhere - so we really are not sure how we will fill in our days after the big guy visits! Just not rushing to get out the door will be nice.
Many blessings to you all for a blessed Christmas. Who knows what 2021 will bring, so lets enjoy the day we have with those around us,
All our love,
Flora and Michele xo
20 December 2020
This message has been received from David, Janenne and Rachel Hay on 18 December 2020:
Today we saw the deposit to our bank account from Tuggeranong Baptist Church. Thank you once again for partnering with us. TBC is such a blessing and we thank God for your prayers and support for us.
This extra gift will help as we plan to have a couple of weeks break away at the KwaZulu-Natal south coast in February. This will be the first opportunity for a proper break in over 18 months and we are very much looking forward to it.
Please pass on our thanks to all at TBC
As of Monday this week, South Africa has officially entered the “second wave” of Coronavirus infections. Numbers of new cases have been rising exponentially over the last few weeks. While we have not returned to the extremely severe lockdown we were in earlier in the year, there are some further curtailment of what we can do. One disappointing aspect is that we can no longer meet together at our local church. We were especially looking forward to a carols service this coming Sunday in which several of our kids were to be singing and others were in a Christmas play.
We hope you have a wonderful and joy-filled Christmas.
Blessings
David, Janenne & Rachel
www.HaysInSouthAfrica.com
www.sim.org.au
Physical services at the Garratt Street Centre will be suspended to give the teams who have expended extraordinary amounts of time and energy through the pandemic, so far, a time to be restored and re-energised for whatever is in store.
Church On-line will continue throughout the same period, when the series The Ripple Effect will be uploaded each Sunday via the Website and App. The series will include songs, information and a teaching session from Jesus, the Game Changer 2.
There will be no physical services at the Garratt St Centre on:
Sunday 27 December 2020
Sunday 3 January 2021
Sunday 10 January 2021
Sunday 17 January 2021
Sunday 24 January 2021
Sunday 31 January 2021
Care and Administration Ps Ian Reid will be available throughout January and can be contacted on 0401 301 193
The series is called "The Ripple Effect" will be uploaded each Sunday morning in January and includes songs, info and a teaching session from "Jesus, the Game Changer 2"
Join us for Church On-line from 3rd to 29th January where there will be no physical services at the Garratt St Centre.
Jesus the Gamechanger sessions:
Sunday January 3 Paul and the Early Church
Sunday January 10 Bible Translation
Sunday January 17 Reformation
Sunday January 24 Jesuits
Sunday January 31 Persecution