NEWS

Applications to join the 2025 Mission Team to Cambodia are now open!

[CLICK HERE](https://lifeway.net.au/d/2xcTCk1IexAsncNMXOkg7T39d) or in the files tab to view the Application Packet.

Please read it carefully and prayerfully and then submit your application by 12th May 2024.

If you have any questions please contact Pastor Mark Schultz - email [email protected]

- If you are under 18 years of age, you should share your thoughts with your parent(s) about why you want to be a part of the Short Term Mission Team. Take into account their perspective as well. After you have submitted your application, we will send a parental consent form to your parents to sign.

- If you do not have a valid passport you should begin to obtain one soon. You should have a passport that will be valid for 6 months after the trip. Also leave enough time to have all your vaccinations.

The Table has always been a great ministry opportunity. Read the Gospel of Luke especially and you will see that Jesus met, healed and transformed many lives around the table.

Around a table, we have unhurried time.

Around a table, we get to know people deeper

Around a table, we make new friends.

Around a table, we reveal the presence of Christ.

OUR VISION 2030 BEYOND LIMITS CHALLENGE FOR 2024

600 Table Moments hosted by LifeWay members.

600 moments to live his love, share his hope and grow in his grace together.

That is 2-3 invitations for every member.

This is not about doing anything extra from what you do already! It’s simply being intentional in those Table Moments.

- Think about those neighbours or work colleagues that you could get to know better.

- Invite them for a meal.

- Share stories as you do over a meal – how do you meet, what brought you to this suburb.

- Pray – maybe just ask the Lord’s blessing over your meal with a table grace…or before they leave just ask if there is anything you can pray for them, or simply offer this prayer. Dear Jesus, thank you for bringing ______here today. Thank you for the opportunity to get to know them. Watch over and bless them in the coming week. Amen. It is that simple.

- Take a photo (if it is appropriate) or simply fill in a Table Moment card at each centre as we build a wall of Table moments to pray over and ask God to use for his purposes.

May God bless the Table Moments you share in 2024!

Living: having life, being alive

Exclusivity: the only source….to the exclusion of others.

Living Exclusively: having life, being alive, by only one source - Jesus Christ.

That’s the bombshell truth that changes everything.

Join us for our post Easter series in the Book of Galatians. Experience repeated explosions of joy and freedom that will take your breath away. Witness the explosive transformation that the Gospel unleashes in you. Receive the fullness of blessing that comes from living exclusively in the life of the risen Jesus.

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Bake through the Bible helps parents with young children to explore the Bible with their child while having lots of fun cooking together.

This book contains 20 Bible stories, told in a simple, engaging style, that take your child through the whole storyline of the Bible. Each story is supported by a cooking activity that reinforces the main teaching, along with questions to discuss while cooking, and a simple recap to use when enjoying what theyve cooked.

Cooking activities include:

- Sparkly promise cookies to remember Gods wonderful promises to Abraham

- Happy crepe faces in response to Gods promise to send His Rescuer and Forever-King

- Spiral tuna wraps for a picnic that links with Jesus miracle of feeding thousands

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Does mindfulness improve our wellbeing? Can it be practised within a Christian worldview? Can it be Christ-Centred? Yes.

Leading academic and experienced mental health worker Dr Katherine Thompson addresses these questions and draws on the rich Christian tradition to present Christian mindfulness exercises that help us slow down, connect to what is happening inside ourselves and make space to listen for God's guidance in everyday life.

“Christ-centred mindfulness is expanding the idea of mindfulness not just so it focuses on ourselves, but on God and ourself at the same time.” Author, Dr Katherine Thompson

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96 households have now moved into the new community housing at Midtown, Macquarie Park. Pastor Mark had the opportunity to meet some of the residents at the offical opening of the Midtown Apartments as a guest of Mission Australia. But we need your help. The Community Connections Dinners will be held on the first and 3rd Friday's of each month from 4-6pm. The first dinner will be on the first Friday in May. Each dinner we need 6-8 volunteers to serve, chat and help grow the community connections. Please see Pastor Mark, if you can serve in this way.

We’ve moved….

LifeWay Wollongong's new home in the Illawarra is

Unit 1, 8 Kenny Street, Wollongong

We would love you to come and visit, and check out our new place. Join us for worship 10.30am each Sunday.