As a good Sydney Inner Westie, for the last few decades my breakfast has involved consuming, among other things, the Sydney Morning Herald. I liked its style, and particularly the insight of writers like Ross Gittins. However, of late, I found it increasingly one sided socially, politically and ideologically...
It may just be that I’m getting older - I didn’t want to say old! - but it seems to me that there’s more talk than ever about what you might call ‘the nature of society’. Whether it’s about the definition of marriage, and who gets to define it (why should there be a Marriage Act in the first place?), a society’s response to regime brutality leading to mass asylum seekers, the impact of the society on the environment around us, or even whether everyone ought to expect and be able to purchase a house, the question of what is, and what ought, a society look like is front and centre...
Grace City Church Chatswood is an emerging church plant with a vision of being a church "shaped by God to shape the city".
Led by affiliated planter and City to City International Intensive alumnus, Adrian Tam, last month Grace City Church Chatswood held their first Vision and Prayer Night in a café in the heart of Chatswood.
As told by Adrian:
Close to 50 people of all ages attended the event, which was a tremendous encouragement. We began the night with a time of worship, and given the amount of foot traffic that goes right past the cafe, there were many curious onlookers who peeked their head in to see what all the commotion was about.
During the evening, the Lead Elder of Grace City Church Dee Why shared about the journey God has brought them on over the past few years. After a time of prayer, Adrian spoke on the story of the five loaves and the two fish from Luke 9:10-17, challenging those present to consider their provisions, and how God might want to take them, multiply them and use them to feed the multitudes of spiritually hungry people in Chatswood.
Adrian continues:
It was incredibly exciting and invigorating to see a new community of people forming and rallying around the vision of seeing a new work of the Gospel planted in the heart of Chatswood.
Please pray for Grace City Church Chatswood as they embark on this new venture and prepare to commence their weekly launch team meetings.
Grace City Church Chatswood is a church plant of Grace City Church Dee Why. They are seeking to launch publicly in February 2018.
Regeneration Church is officially launching next Sunday! They're a new church plant seeking to be a gospel centred, trans-cultural community.
They'd love for you to come along and join for this important occassion, and hear about how Regeneration Church want to engage in God's mission in the City of Monash.
Sunday 16 July 2017
4:30pm
St Philip's Anglican Church,
80 Catherine Ave, Mount Waverley
Visit the Regeneration Church website or check out the Facebook event for more details.
