Hi Church

What an amazing weekend we had with visiting Pastor Greig Whittaker from the Salvation Army/Baptist Church of Ryde, representing the unity organisation City to City. Greig spoke at the Combined Worship service on Saturday and in our Sunday morning service. The messages were outstanding and brought people into a revelation of God’s love and what it means to be loved and to go out and to love like God does to us. Please listen to his message again or for the first time if you missed it, you will be blessed. https://www.youtube.com/@GraceChurchPortMacquarie/streams

One the main points that spoke to me was that God is a lover of enemies and He calls us to love like he does. This means there is no one outside His love or who is beyond the reach of His love regardless of how I feel about it or whether I think that’s justified or not or they deserve it or not. Because the truth is, until we were reconciled through Christ, we were all His enemy through our sin filled rebellion against him. We all deserved His punishment. But God’s love prevails, and God’s love is a love for enemies. Think about who ever you feel is against you and begin to release God’s love through you to them and choose to live in that freedom. 

We have a busy month coming up, but it will be rewarding. It started last Saturday, so thank you to all those who responded to the call for unity and came to the City wide Worship night where over $3000 was raised for SRE Mission in Schools. We have a working Bee at Church this Saturday, beginning at 8:30am for gardeners and outside painters. Bring your appropriate gear and some step ladders.

Next will be a leader’s night on the 7th to give some vision feedback. After that we have CityServe at Tacking Point Public School. Then at the end of July we have our wonderful Powerhouse conference with some great guest speakers who will teach, equip and challenge us to reach higher and go further into our maturity in Christ. I cant wait!

I know many people are continuing to be attacked by the enemy of our souls, regarding health. So, let’s rally around our brothers and sisters and care and encourage where we can. Bring a meal, make a visit, send a card are just a few ways we can encourage those who are suffering right now and of course pray without ceasing, bringing their needs to our Father.

God Bless you Church.

Ps Greg and Amanda

30th May 2023