Life Groups Thank you to our group leaders who provide frontline pastoral care and discipling through our 26 groups. If you haven’t joined one yet, why not try one out in Term 1. They won’t make you stay if you don’t enjoy it! But I know you will love it. Serving & Enjoying God Forever […]
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Parish Council completed the 2019 Budget PC would especially like to thank Sean Buckley for his tireless and diligent work compiling the many proposals and amendments provided over the past 2 months. Major decision are: SRE Trust Some $5,000 of the unallocated giving to our Thanksgiving Appeal was allocated to our SRE Trust. However, as the […]
Franklin Graham Tour in Sydney 23-24 February 2019 Parish Council has decided that as a church we will not be promoting or endorsing this evangelistic event. Why? Because although there is no doubt Franklin will, like his father Billy, preach the gospel of Jesus faithfully, Franklin has unlike his father been very outspoken politically. Some […]
The Archbishop’s Apology on Child Sexual Abuse On Monday 22 October in the House of Representatives, our Prime Minister, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP, delivered an emotional, heart-felt apology on behalf of the Parliament and the Australian people, to the survivors of child sexual abuse, including those in Anglican churches. That our Church was complicit in any […]
Graham & Wendy Toulmin (DRCongo with CMS) Many remember with prayer the Toulmins, Bishop Isesomo and the church in the DRC. Here’s some prayer updates from them: Give thanks for: Graham’s surgery for prostate cancer in October and pray for his complete recovery so he can join Wendy back in Congo 20th November as planned. […]
Please pray for Pakistan Asia Bibi has been acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan after facing trumped up charges. The Lahore High Court’s verdict sentencing her to death for blasphemy has been overturned. She has been in jail for over 8 years. Praise God for this decision and thank you for your continued prayerful support for […]
GAFCON – a remarkable change in the Anglican Church world-wide The Global Anglican Forum Conference – has already made a remarkable contribution to encouraging Anglican Churches world-wide to honour Jesus and obey the Bible. GAFCON now represents 70% of the world’s Anglicans and effectively has replaced Lambeth and Canterbury as the effective Anglican Communion. Peter Jensen has […]
Fuse Camp 2018 Last week 51 Youth and Kids from years 4-12 of school went away with a number of our legendary leaders for our first ever ‘Fuse Camp’ – a new initiative of Gymea Anglican fusing our X’treme (kids) and Revive (youth) camps into one! How was it? Fantastic! Despite a number of setbacks […]
Synod meets October 15-17,22-23 Our Synod meets over 5 days and nights 3.30pm to 9.30pm. This is the annual assembly (or parliament) of our diocese. You are represented by me, and your elected reps Prof Alan Watson and Barbara Archer. We are always very happy to hear your views or to discuss Synod business with our […]