Dapto Anglican Church
Building for Eternity
Kidshaper 2010 Conference “TASTE” August 25-27
Sep 3rd
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh the joys of those who trust in Him. Psalm 34:8
Last week, Mary Pickford, Eliza Vesey, Karoleena Ivanov, Emily Brown, Janet Boardman, Esther Pickford and I attended a National Children’s Ministry Conference called ‘Kidshaper’ in Melbourne. The theme was TASTE (Psalm 34:8). It was a fantastic conference filled with passion and spiritual renewal.
Some of the Key points we learnt about include:
Passion. We need to have 100% passion and love for God, having as much passion for serving Him as Jamie Oliver does preparing a meal.
Diversity. We need to embrace different people in our community and teams, from different cultures, backgrounds and ages.
Change. Be ‘Molecular Churchologists’ – in other words, be forever taking something and making it new, be God-inspired, innovative and creative, because in order to reach people no one is reaching, we have to do things no one is doing!
TASTE passion! TASTE diversity! TASTE change!
TASTE and see that the Lord is Good!
Amy Brown,
Children’s Pastor,
part time Warrawong & Dapto
Bulletin 5th September 2010
Sep 3rd
Happy Father’s Day!
Isn’t it a great thing that we celebrate fatherhood! It is an enormous privilege and responsibility to be a dad, and we dads, need to make sure we are helping each other out in thinking about this important role.
I wonder if I can point out two things from my reading of Ephesians 5:21-6:4?
- The first is this; Dads, love your kid’s mum (Eph 5:25). Our children watch our every word and action. Our boys are learning from us how we are to treat women. Our daughters are learning from us how they should be expected to be treated by their future husband. Dads, can I plead with you to ensure that you love your children’s mother!
- The second is; To ensure that we are not frustrating our children (Eph 6:4). We are to be consistent. We are to be on the same parenting team as their mum. We are to restrain our anger, and show gentleness.
What an honour to love our children’s mum, and what a privilege to raise our children in the Lord!
Scott Goode, Assistant Pastor
Mission Dinner to highlight Charles, Gold and McPhail
Sep 2nd
Combined Missionaries
Dapto Anglican Church invites you to their annual Mission Dinner. We will be highlighting three mission areas on the night.
Michael & Jo Charles and their 4 children live and work in Chile and are supported by Church Mission Society and Dapto Anglican Church. They are currently in Australia completing deputation work with those churches who support them.
Meghan Gold is currently undergoing training for mission work in the future at Sydney Mission Bible College. Meghan will share with us what she is currently studying and her plans for the future.
Jason & Paula McPhail and their 3 children live and work in Indonesia serving with and being supported by Overseas Missionary Fellowship and Dapto Anglican Church. They are currently at home here in Australia recovering from Dengue Fever and doing some deputation work. They have hopes to head back to the mission field early next year. They will share with us the work in Indonesia and their hopes for the future.
The Mission Dinner, Saturday, 11th September at 6pm
Ministry Centre, Moombara Street, Dapto
Tickets for the Mission Dinner are available now at a cost of $12 per person or family rate $30.00 (covering children 0 to high school)
Purchase tickets from
- St. Luke’s 8am Service from Phil Weston
- St. Aidan’s 9.30am Service from Carol Stumbles
- Ministry Centre 10am Service from Ron/Maureen Litchfield
- St. Aidan’s 4.30pm Service from Caroline Sampson
- Ministry Centre 7.15pm Service from Pamela Rouse
- Warrawong Anglican – from John Doughton
- St Stephen’s Port Kembla – from Ian Rienits
- or from the Dapto Anglican Church Office
Patchwork & Paper Craft Show
Sep 2nd
Dapto Anglican Church presents their annual Patchwork and Paper Craft Show – open to the public.
FRIDAY, 24th September 10am to 3pm at Dapto Anglican Church Ministry Centre,
Moombara Street, Dapto (just up the road from McDonalds)
Entry is just $4.00 per person with complimentary devonshire tea.
There will be giveaways on the day. Come along and check out the beautiful quilts and paper craft work on display.
AFES Supporters Dinner – Richard Chin
Aug 31st
Richard and family
AFES will be hosting a Supporter’s Dinner on the Saturday 18th September to support the work of the AFES in Universities across Australia. AFES’s mission is to minister to University students and share the gospel. Richard Chin is the National Director and will be the keynote speaker and will be speaking along-side a range of other speakers from the AFES network.
Richard Chin & AFES are part of Dapto Anglican Churches Link Missionary network.
AFES has invited all supporters to join for a fabulous banquet meal whilst hearing interviews, items and videos of how God is transforming lives at University with his gospel.
Saturday, 18th September
6.30pm to 9pm
University of Wollongong Function Centre, Northfields Ave., Wollongong
Cost: $35.00 per person.
You can RSVP to Morweena Baird (morwennaw at gmail dot com) by 12/9.
Jesus is Better than the Rest
Aug 30th
Peter Tasker: Jesus is Better than the Rest (MP3, 10.8MB).
A talk by Peter Tasker at Dapto Anglican Ministry Centre at the 10am service on August 29th.
Worry
Aug 30th
John Batten: Worry (MP3, 11.5MB).
A talk by John Batten at Dapto Anglican Ministry Centre at the 5pm service on August 29th.
Jesus is Better than the Rest
Aug 30th
Scott Goode: Jesus is Better than the Rest (MP3, 13.9MB).
A talk by Scott Goode at Dapto Anglican Ministry Centre at the 7.15 service on August 29th.
Explores the importance of responding to God’s word with faith and obedience.
Are you an ambitious person?
Aug 30th
- “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves…” Genesis 11
Ambition might be defined as ‘an eager desire for some type of achievement’.
Often when I think of this word, I think about the ambition that a student has to achieve high marks; or the desire of a football team to win the premiership; or the ambition of a person to build a career or business for themselves. While many of these things may be morally neutral, ambition within the heart of sinful humans is normally centred on the desire for self-promotion. Genesis 11:1-4 describes the ambition of humanity to build for themselves ‘…a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves…’ If we are honest with ourselves, it is similar ambition which drives too much of our daily living.
Philippians chapter 2 describes Jesus Christ who already had a name for himself – who was ‘in the very nature God’! The ambition of Christ is revealed in the fact that He made himself nothing and became obedient to death – ambition that was characterised by obedience and faith towards the Father.
It is for this reason that God commands us to ‘do nothing out of selfish ambition’ (Phil 2:3). Rather our ambition is to be Christ-like and Christ-promoting! We are to consider others better than ourselves; we are to celebrate the success of others; we are to bear the burdens of others; we are to warn others about disobedience to God; we are to encourage others in faithful service of Christ; we are to live for the glory of God in any and everything we do! Such ambition transforms the seemingly ordinary circumstances of life into opportunities of enormous potential to promote the cause of Christ.
Are you an ambitious person?
Scott Goode,
Assistant Pastor
Packed to the Rafters
Aug 23rd
Cheryl Cosgrove: Packed to the Rafters (MP3, 14.3MB)
A talk by Cheryl Cosgrove at Dapto Anglican Ministry Centre at the Cafe Church on August 18th, 2010.
