What is your favourite season of the year? And why?
There are a bunch of things unique to each season of the year. What we do in Summer, we may not be able to do in Winter – and vice versa. If you are from a farming background or into gardening, different things need to be done in each season to keep your plants healthy.
In his parables Jesus used seeds and plants, vines and branches, fig trees and fields ripe for harvest - to teach about kingdom life. In this series, we will be drawing from the world of agriculture to talk about the four seasons of the soul.
Doing life with Jesus, we find that at times things go smoothly - we grow easily in our relationship with God. But at other times it’s not so easy. Challenges stand in our way, faith gets difficult, even painful … and at times our relationship with God grows cold. What we experience are the seasons of the soul.
In this series, we will be using the four seasons to explore our walk with God: what happens in those seasons, why each one is important, and what needs to happen for our growth to continue.
We begin this Sunday: Spring – the Season of Growth.
Pr Rolly
Bible Readings: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Jeremiah 17:5-8 Mark 4:14-20, 26-29
Podcasts of weekly messages are available at www.paravista.org.au
Artist in residence
Last Sunday, Hayley was our ‘artist in residence’. Over our morning services she did a painting which is currently on display. If you are interested in looking at more of Hayley’s work, please visit her website: www.lifeartbyhayleylauren.com
Prayer Requests:
Prayer requests are not included in the weekly news. If you would like to view the current requests refer to the email that alerted you to this weekly news. If you have a prayer request please email churchenquiries@paravista.org.au with your request.
Kingdom Kids is now on holidays! We will resume Sunday 22nd October at our 10.30am service.
Activity folders are available for the younger children and Worship Journals available for the older children for use during the services. Please help yourself to them in the narthex.
Growing Faith at Home
Now available on our church Face Book page! To encourage families to keep growing in their faith at home each week.
Little Lambs Playgroup
Little Lambs Playgroup is now on a break. We will resume next term on Wednesdays at 9.30am in the church hall.
Last Friday night we screened the football match here at church. During the football breaks we had some very deep and interesting discussion around where Jesus fits with sport. It was a great night and it was really good to have a couple of people from the congregation join in the night with us too. Youth is now on a break until term 4. See below for next term flyer with dates.
Help Wanted
I am looking for people interested in supporting youth ministry to come on board and establish a Youth Ministry Team – this does not mean leading youth, this is a support type team – helping out with simple tasks such as helping with supper on youth event nights, maybe shopping or sourcing items at various times, using your skills and gifts in any way that may be helpful in supporting youth ministry. If you feel this is something you would like to be involved in, please get in touch with me. Please contact me for further details regarding youth ministry - Margot Mertin 0401 850814 or Margot.Mertin@paravista.org.au
Green Team Reminder
If anyone is interested in volunteering or supporting Para Vista Green Team in any way, for Schoolies, please get in contact with Margot or the church office as soon as possible.
Para Vista Women's Fellowship
Please attend our two meetings in OCTOBER. Especially the first on Tuesday, October 3rd. At this meeting we will be interested to hear your thoughts and ideas about how our 2018 program is to be structured. All ideas will be considered and discussed and the committee are hoping to hear many contributions from you, the members.
Our second October meeting is to be on Tuesday, 31st . We encourage you to attend each of these meetings to ensure the future planning of our 2018 Fellowship. There is no Fellowship meeting in November.
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Dried apricots
For sale in the church office at $12 per 500gm pack which will help support ministries in Cambodia and Tonga.
“Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13
