Father God, we praise you for your love for all people and for sending Jesus to be the saviour of the World.
Help us to share this love with others.
We pray for the people of our city and beyond.
By your Spirit prepare their hearts to respond to your Word and put their trust in you.
As we connect with them, may they connect with you, and find the joy of sins forgiven and life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Bulletin 19th Oct 08 (Pdf 331kb)
It was great to celebrate our holiday bible club with a full church last Sunday morning. Many worthwhile connections were established with families.
The next large scale opportunities for us to bring friends and connect with the community will be:
* The Gingerbread House night Saturday 22nd November
* The Community Carols at Dapto Showground on Saturday 6th December.
Start praying for the friends & family you intend to invite.
Stephen Semenchuk
2008-10-Oct-12 (Pdf 417kb)
Each day around 160 children joined about 45 enthusiastic Dapto Anglican Team members for hours of fun. We hope everyone who came got so much more than they expected as they learnt how to build a rock solid foundation for life on Jesus.
Stephen Semenchuk
Once upon a time in the town of Ducksville was a church. Every Sunday hundreds of ducks would waddle into church. They would listen to the duck preacher. They would quack their support and then they would return to their duck world.
One Sunday the duck preacher stood before them and said “Friends you are ducks”, and the congregation quacked their support. The preacher continued, “You have wings” and the congregation grew in their quacking support. He said “You are ducks, you have wings and you can fly” and all the ducks got excited and were quacking their support even louder.
The preacher reached his climax “You are ducks, you have wings, you can fly, you can soar on wings like eagles!” The crowd enthusiastically quacked a giant “Amen” and then they all waddled home.
God has a great vision for his people. He calls on us to choose Him, choose life and choose to soar like eagles.
Stephen Semenchuk
The older I get the more retirement seminars I get invited to. I am starting to feel that the next 15 years are all about preparing for the next “however many years God gives me”. The fact is that Jesus may return during the next 15 years. My superannuation may never be called on.
We have to be careful that we put our last energies into planning for the life God has given us today. He doesn’t take us straight to heaven when we are adopted into God’s family. He leaves us here to do his work.
It is important for us to be responsible for our livelihood but it is even more important for us to be faithful stewards of the lives God allocates to us. How can God work through you today and tomorrow and the next day and….
Stephen Semenchuk