Tag: mission

A World that Knows Jesus!

12/01/2017 / Ben

This weeks newsletter comes to you from the Blue Mountains, where the Boardman family have been attending the Church Missionary Society’s (CMS) annual ‘Summer School’. It has been a huge encouragement to hear from missionaries about their work of proclaiming the gospel around the world, and to hear from the preacher, William Taylor about the universal need for forgiveness and salvation from judgement from the book of Genesis.

This year 18 new missionaries are being sent from CMS NSW and they need our support, both in prayer and in money (https://goo.gl/3Ybuw9).

Although we’re not all going overseas, we’re all part of God’s mission proclaiming the good news of our risen Lord Jesus. Let’s pray that God will be at work in Picton and Wilton and around the world calling people to trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

Yours in Christ,
Ben

Christmas is coming!

23/11/2016 / Ben

Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!
You might be delaying the decorations and side-stepping the shops, or perhaps you’re Christmas tree has already been up for a month. Either way, at the heart of Christmas is the good news that ‘a Saviour has been born to you, he is Christ the Lord’.

Christmas is one of the best opportunities all year to share the great news that sins can be forgiven, hope found and eternal life secured by trusting in Jesus Christ as Lord. Please be praying for the opportunity to share the good news of Jesus with your family, neighbours, friends and workmates. Then be brave and take those opportunities as they present themselves.

I just received 5,000 postcard invitations to our Christmas festivities. Starting this Sunday, will you help me pop them into letterboxes and into the hands of those who might join us to celebrate Christmas?
Yours in Christ,
Ben

Seeing God at Work

26/10/2016 / Ben

It’s so encouraging to see how God is at work around this great nation and around the world. We’re going to have a great day this coming Sunday hearing about the 30+ years the Etherington’s have spent in the Northern Territory and I can’t wait!

Lately I’ve read two great Christian biographies, one about taking the gospel to remote cannibalistic tribes in Western Papua New Guinea (‘Peace Child’) and another we’ve been reading to the kids at bed time about Nepal (‘My Seventh Monsoon’).
These Christian biographies can be a great companion to our regular Bible reading and prayer to help us in living our lives for Jesus Christ. Maybe you’d like to borrow a book from me to read, I have plenty to lend and/or suggest.

One of the most encouraging things for me is that I see God at work outside of the pages of books or third party stories. I see God at work in your life. I see you maturing in your faith, I see you stepping up with trepidation to serve in new ways in Church, and I see you sharing your faith with others.

Never too far away

30/05/2016 / Ben

This week I’ve had the great privilege of meeting with other Anglican Ministers down in Nowra for a few days of fellowship. It was a great time of encouragement and learning. Andrew, from Anglicare, shared a story from the maximum security prison in Lithgow. One of the inmates was teasing others about attending chapel services – so they challenged him to stop hassling until he came to see for himself. He went along and was converted. His family on the outside were so amazed by the transformation in his life that they have started attending Church to try to find out what has transformed his life so amazingly! Let’s not give up praying for our friends and family who don’t know Jesus yet – nobody is ever too far from God to be saved.

In Christ,

Ben

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