We are a church community that is committed to connecting with those around us. We are seeking ways to understand and relate to individuals, couples and families in our local part of Townsville.
This website is just another way for us to connect with you and each other.
Please take your time to see what we are about and you are welcome to introduce yourself both on line and, if you are able, come and join us during one of our services/activities or home groups.
Our Parish Mission Statement:
We seek to offer ourselves to God as a living sacrifice
through Jesus Christ, Our Lord,
in order to be sent out
in the power of His Holy Spirit,
to live and work to His praise and glory.
Announcements & Upcoming Events
on our Church Calendar
Dynamic Prayer in the Local Church
We have already held two special bi monthly services on Sunday afternoons from 5 to 6pm on the topic of Dynamic Prayer in the Local Church using some talks from Jeremy Jennings, the past Director ofPrayer at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Brompton, London http://www.htb.org.uk/ .
These talks addressed the following topics A vision for effective prayer and the Practicalities of dynamic prayer meetings.
Bishop Sandy Millar, a previous Vicar at HTB has said about Jeremy "Although prayer is essential and vital, it is a lesson that seems to take a very long time to learn. Jeremy Jennings has pioneered ways of making prayer meetings interesting and even "fun"."
The aim of this Bible teaching is to facilitate and inspire the running of effective and enjoyable prayer meetings.
Dynamic Prayer meetings are vital to the life of every local church and the church at large. We need to know
How can we learn to pray together?
How can we develop more effective prayer?
How can we make prayer meetings dynamic and enjoyable?
What could prayer accomplish in our church?
These talks were filmed at the Dynamic Prayer in the Local Church Conference at Holy Trinity Brompton.
The last session will be on September the 19th when we will hold a guided 'quiet afternoon' from 2:00pm to 4:30pm. We will then break for the final teaching session on How to lead a prayer meetingat 5pm.
For the last three months of the year on the first Saturday morning of the month we will also hold a Church Prayer Meeting as a follow up to these teaching sessions. This will be for one hour from 8am to 9amon Saturday the2nd of October, the 6th of November and the 4th of December.
Our aim is to spend some time in worship and praise followed by guided prayer and intercession. I encourage you all to make time to seek the Lord together.
Quotations
'If ever there was a time for us to turn to God and to pray as a nation it is now...' Billy Graham
'Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of omnipotence.' Charles Spurgeon
'Prayer depends chiefly, almost entirely, on who we think we are praying to.' Andrew Murray
Visit of Reverend Ian McAlister
On Saturday the 2nd of October from 9:00am to around 11:00am Ian, who is the Ministry Development Officer for the Anglican Diocese of North Queensland, will share with us an emerging paradigm in the church today concerning the often vexed question of faith sharing and evangelism. Based on some of Brian McLaren's writings http://brianmclaren.net/archives/about-brian/ and his own recent experiences, Ian will give us some pointers on how to share our lives and our faith while journeying with those who are seeking. In a talk given at a recent clergy conference, Ian told us about Brian McLaren's story of Alice (April Vega), who corresponded with Brian for some time before coming to faith in Christ. Brian's book More ready than you realise is the story of that spiritual journey. Read this interview with Brian: http://www.brianmclaren.net/emc/archives/0310239648_authintrvw.pdf .
Keep this time free for what promises to be an empowering session with Ian.
On the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of October we will host the Reverend Des Pritchard under the banner of the Order of St Luke http://www.osl.org.au/ . Des is the senior state Chaplain of the Order of St Luke in Queensland. He will take a seminar on the Saturday morning from 9am till midday. These will be teaching sessions on the Healing Ministry of the Church. Des will alsopreach at our Sunday services at Heatley at 7am and the Upper Ross at 9:30am and preside at a Healing Service in the afternoon. More details will be available when the programme has been finalised.
Please keep all these people and events in your prayers.
