ALL ABOARD!  Sorry that was a bit lame.  But this isn’t!  This saturday at church at 8am we will begin the first of our saturday morning train-ing events.  This time we will be looking at how to lead church.  Welcoming people, setting the tone for the meeting, directing people to the Bible and getting them to begin engaging with God. Its more than just the announcement!!  If you’d like to lead church or have a go at it then make sure you come along this Saturday for the train!  Yes, at that time of morning there will be coffee (and pastries – I hope) let Mike know if you are coming.  mike@rockypc.org.au

If you live in Rocky why not come along and join us or if you can’t get to church with us you can listen to our talks here under the bible talks tab.

Well its June.  Can you believe it?  After what has been a massive 5 months to date with a mission, a convention, new small groups and a new youth group, gearing up at the University – things seem to be slowing down (a tad).  Time to reflect and time to plan ahead.  Corinne and I have been in Rocky now for 12 months this week.  It’s been a great year and we’ve seen God do some amazing things already. People becoming Christians, Christians growing in their love of Jesus, People motivated to do ministry. Our church has grown numerically and spiritually I think, the opportunities for gospel with new relationships are many and exciting – we haven’t began to scratch the surface yet!   In what has been a big year, I’m thankful to God for this mission field he has given us.  We love Rocky and we love living here (especially in Winter!) and I’m looking forward to what the next 12 months brings us.   We will finish our current Bible talk series In My Place later this month and then we take holidays after I speak at the Cairns Church Camp in July.

It’s conference time. The Queensland Presbyterian State Assembly starts in Brisbane on Sunday June 21st and runs for the week.  The Cairns Church Camp in on in July and then 2 weeks holidays (did I mention that I was having a holiday?)  and then after holidays down to Sydney for the Embers To A Flame Conference and then 1 weeks study leave.  After all of that we start a new Bible Talk Series on Exodus which I’m looking forward to – it will be good to do some preaching though a book of the Bible again after a few topical series.

Please pray for us, give thanks to God for the things he is doing here in Central Queensland and in our city Rockhampton.  If you are visiting or you live in Rocky please come and join us one Sunday  - we’d love to meet you!

Mike

What a fantastic weekend of Bible teaching and fellowship with other christians from across Central Queensland.  It was a great weekend, bot Phil Campbell and Anthony Petterson were clear and challenging on the topic of Faith Alone.  The talks from both our speakers should be available from this site and the convention website shortly.  We had over 200 people register for the Convention and looking forward to even bigger and better things.  2010 Should be another great year for the Convention with our topic of Christ Alone.  Luke Tattersall a Presbyterian Minister in the Sydney suburb of Carlingford is coming and we are awaiting confirmation of a second speaker.  Make sure you keep the date for next year free in your diary for 2010 and start planning to come NOW.  May 1-3, 2010 – ministry and conference centre Rockhampton.

It starts this weekend and while that sounds exciting enough we have 170 people registered to come to our first annual convention. Phil Campbell will be speaking from the book of Galatians and Anthony Petterson will be speaking from Exodus, Isaiah and Job.  The topic for the weekend is FAITH ALONE and its still not to late to join us!  It’s being held at our church – St.Andrew’s Ministry and Conference Centre in the Rockhampton CBD and is being run over the Queensland Labour Day long weekend May 2-4.

We’d love to have you join us!  We even have Penguins!!!

It’s going to be huge week for the team and for our church – please pray that we can make some great contacts at the School and the University and encourage and strengthen the Gospel work and workers in those places.  If you want to be involved swing by the church and if you can’t do that be sure to pray for us.