Hey Village,

Well, we've just about finished our 1 Peter Series and I've been personally encouraged by many of you wrestling with what it looks like to live as God's people in a community that doesn't share our faith. Can I keep encouraging you beyond our Sermon Series to keep remembering 1 Peter 3:18,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God

And to remember, that this is what we have been commanded to do. Not to die on a cross, but to die to ourselves for the sake of others. My prayer for the coming months is that God would continue to work through us, serving one another and serving our community by bringing them to check out Jesus.

Here's a few things going on at the moment:

We want to give thanks and celebrate the many things God is doing amongst us at Village. We're going to baptise some people who have come to faith, we'll hear some stories of God's work among us and we'll go down the beach for the baptisms and some food.

Can I encourage you to prioritise being at the Sunday Gathering on the 19th of October so we can celebrate together.

P.S. if you've got a story of God's goodness, we'd love to hear it and possibly share it on the 19th.

Jesus is the most significant figure in all history. And if the claims made about him are true, it will have a massive impact on our lives today… and for eternity. Obviously we preach about Jesus every Sunday, but sometimes it's helpful to take people through the basics of the gospel.

My hope is that you would want everyone you know to find out more about Jesus. That's why we do the Life Series. Life is a 6 week series designed to take people through the evidences and truths about Jesus and the Bible.

Every Thursday night, 7:30pm starting on October 23rd at Tim & Allita's house.

Can I continue to put before you our October Appeal. We want to see more people hear about Jesus and with us all, grow, gather, give and go in love and joy to the glory of God. But for that to happen we need to use the financial gift God's given us to support the work.

We are raising $15,000.

$5,000 toward Laila's Support & $10,000 towards our budget deficit.

$7,500 has already been raised.

Would you prayerfully consider what you might give.

That's it for now.

I'm off on holiday for two weeks.

Praying for you Village.

Keep going!

Tim