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Welcome to the Connection Corner
We hope you are all having a great week and staying warm! We just have a few events we want to highlight this week.

The Barn Dance 
Its this Saturday, doors open at 6pm at church and it will be heaps of fun! Grab a ticket from the office and bring a friend.

Leadership Nominations
With the AGM approaching we are seeking nominations of people to join the leadership team.  Please put all nominations into the box at the information desk.

Men's Retreat
If you would like to attend the Wild at Heart Men's retreat from the 12th to 15th September facilitated by Philip Kelsey, please scan the code for details and registration. 
  

Events Calendar
All the details of events coming up are in our events calendar so please do read it.
Please click here.
If you have something to go into the events calendar please send them to carol@fbc.nz by the 20th of each month.


Pause and Pray
Lets keep praying together with these points below to guide us.
  • Pray that as the Leadership Team engage with the Northern Baptist Association about next steps in our Pastoral Search, that the Lords direction for FBC will be clear.
  • As we Pause to Wait on you Lord, thank you for the in-filling of your Holy Spirit that empowers us for service.
  • We celebrate the multi-culture nature of who we are at FBC.
  • Acts 2 v 11 "And we hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!”

Coming up this Sunday
This Sunday we start a new series looking at The Lords Prayer. Each week we will consider the words of Jesus and what it means to pray in the manner He taught us.

Philip Kelsey will start us off on this new series this Sunday, looking at the pursuit of the Father for the followers of Jesus. How do we respond? How do we connect?
 

Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
 Give us this day our daily bread.
 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
.

Matthew 9-13 NKJV

 
Have a blessed week everyone
Penny

 

We are all GO! Here’s the news we have been waiting for! Our new Certificate in Christian Leadership (Micro-credential) is now NZQA approved so it IS happening. Thank you for your prayers 🙏 We have certainly seen God’s hand move during this approval process 🧡
Details:
🔸When: course starts on Tuesday 20 August, 7-9pm, 12 classes
🔸Mode: fully online, for credit. Study either with a CareyLocal cohort or as an individual student
🔸Cost: only $240 per student (similar courses are $809). That’s the equivalent of just $20 per class!
🔸Enrolment: opens on 30 July and close on 12 August.
🔸Award: successful completion will result in the award of an NZQA-accredited Certificate in Christian Leadership (Micro-credential).
There are limited spaces on this course and no late enrolments will be accepted, so make sure you are ready to go on 30 July ⏩
Get ready!


Please message Penny if you would like more info or to sign up. penny@fbc.nz

CAP Budgeting Course  
CAP - (Christians against poverty) money course is available to those wanting to know how to budget and others who have serious financial concerns. 
The course will help you to spend wisely, budget for your day-to-day requirements, including debt repayments. and to save for your future. 
The course will help you to build and to balance.your budget.  Introduce ways to reduce expenditure and increase your income. Organise your finances to know when and where your money is going. 

Further details available at the church office.
People can contact me directly for further info and to make an appointment. 
Winston:  Phone/text   021-024-32325    Email watt.rama@xtra.co.nz

Where will you serve?
There are several opportunities for you to serve in our church family. These include:

  • Children's Ministry - there are vacancies in all our children's ministry programs for helpers. Pre-school, primary and intermediate programs. 
  • Ushering team - helping people find a space to sit on a Sunday morning.
  • Church building admin team - go on a team to help with getting rooms ready for church ministries and communities renting them.
  • Security team - walking around the building and car park during a Sunday morning service. This is not Security guard duties but more of a hospitality/helping hand nature.
  • Hospitality - going on a roster to help with getting coffee/tea ready on a Sunday morning.
  • Pastoral Care - go on a team to provide help and care to individuals/families as and when needed as and when you are able to.
Please check out the "Where would you like to serve?" link under sign-ups in the Church Center app or sign up here.
Prayer Chain
If you would like to submit a prayer request to the Prayer Chain, please email Arlene Hutcheon on prayerchain@fbc.nz or send a text to 0274726198. All prayer requests are treated as confidential.
Giving
You can give online, by automatic payment or direct debit. Our church bank account: 01 0403 0013842 00 or click here to donate now
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Franklin Baptist Church  128 Victoria Street West, PO Box 52, Pukekohe 2120
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