November 2009

Fellowship Baptist Church Celebrates Three Years

September 2009 officially marked Fellowship Baptist Church’s three year anniversary here in Jerrabomberra. Due to the spring school holidays and other events we finally had our Three Year Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, the 25th of October. Despite the rain and stormy weather, thirty-two people attended the event including some unsaved friends and neighbours and a new family. The theme of the evening was “Beyond these Walls.” Dwayne gave a challenging message on our mission to take the Gospel outside the walls of our church to our lost community. Everyone enjoyed an afternoon of games and an Aussie barbecue. Over the past few years we have developed a small, but faithful core of believers. Like any ministry, we’ve had our ups and downs but are still pressing on. In the past year we launched our church website (www.fbcjerra.org.au) which is still under construction. Hopefully, in the next few months we will have it finished. We have also added a lovely young couple, Stuart and Michelle, to our children’s and youth ministries. They are assisting Valerie with children’s church each week and hosting our weekly youth Bible study in their home on Friday nights. This past year we were very happy with the outreach classes we offered to the community. Both Dwayne and Valerie taught classes on relationships and just recently Valerie taught a class for eleven women on Seven Habits for Highly Effective Women. Next year they plan to offer more classes to the community possibly on parenting or relationships. Another great outreach has been Valerie’s Unwind and Design craft classes each month. Our church ladies as well as women from our community came each month to make a craft. Valerie gave a devotion that tied in with the craft and challenged the women in their walk with God. We had up to 17 ladies come to the class and always have over 11 now. You can see all of the crafts that were made along with most of the devotions on this website. Also, in the last year we have had regular live music in our services once a month. We are praying hard for a keyboard player and a music leader. That would be a great benefit to our services. Plans are underway now for a special Christmas Celebration service in December and a Back to School Sunday the first part of February. Thank you so much for your prayers and support. To God be the glory. Great things He hath done!!!
 

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Updated 11 Nov 2009