Open week for Summer Hill Anglican started with a bang with church yesterday morning, and a yummy picnic in the park in the sunshine afterwards! Our team of about 20 people from Moore College are here this week helping out the church with the open week events, and talking with people in the community about Jesus.

Our team went to the five local train stations this morning at 7am and handed out a heap of invitations to the Christ Files event on this Thursday evening. We had some great conversations with people about the topic of exploring the historical Jesus.

Since then we have had people visit the local Trinity Grammar School, and have had a conversation stall down at the Ashfield mall. Myself and another girl on team visited the Music Time group, which is held each week on Monday at 10:30am in the church hall for babies, toddlers and their mums. I think I had as much fun dancing and singing as the kids!

This afternoon some of our guys will visit the local Bethel Nursing Home, and we'll be continuing to hand out our invites in the community. Also, my husband Steve and some other team members are running an exciting stall this afternoon in Ashfield. People can fill in a short survey on what they think of the world and morality etc, and then they can have their world view (their way of understanding the world) labelled and can then choose to have a chat to our team members about what they believe and we can share with them about Jesus and what we believe. It's a great way to have a genuine conversation with someone about beliefs. I'll tell you how it went!

We have another jam packed day planned for tomorrow. We're praying particularly about the women's event on 'True Fulfillment' tomorrow night.

Each day this week (except Wednesday) the church building will be open, so if you're in the Summer Hill area, please pop in for a look around and a chat. Also, feel free to come to any of the events this week!

Cheers
Anna - Open Week Blogger

Open Week Blogger - Anna Boxwell

It's really great to introduce you to Anna Boxwell who will be blogging for us this week. She is part of the team with us from Moore College who are with us this week. She will be keeping us up to date with what is coming up and with things that have happened! Take it away Anna.

Suli and Debbie's baby arrives!

Suli and Debbie are really pleased to announce the birth of a baby boy, Luke Josiah Nuilala. He was born at 9.05am weighing 3.9kg. Mum and baby are both well. God's name be praised!

Admin working bee

As we get ready for Open Week we are having an administration working bee tomorrow (Saturday 28th March) from 10am-12:30pm. We'll meet in the church hall. See you there.

Open Week!

Our church Open Week is coming up next week with a bunch of great things to come to. We really want to introduce you to Jesus - so when you come along expect to hear something about him. Click on the image for a larer version.

Good Friday at 9.30am

Church on Good Friday is on at 9.30am. Our kids program will be running. Bob Claxton will be sharing with us from Mark 15. See you there!

Anglicans re-align.

David Short, the Senior Minister of St John's Shaugnessy in Canada and parishioner Dr Jim Packer explain some of the upheaval in the world-wide Anglican church.



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