Our Life Together: 14th21st August 2011

Sunday 14th 10:00am Worship Service (plus Sunday School inc grades 5&6) Speaker Michael 11:30am Morning Tea 4:30-6:00pm Monthly Prayer Day (followed by light tea) Monday 15th 7:30pm Deacons Meeting Tuesday 16th 10:30am Church House Prayer Meeting Wednesday 17th 7:30pm Home Group at Oakleys 7:30pm Blakes Group at Dallistons 7:30pm Home Group at Mibus 8:00pm Young Adults Home Group at Church House Thursday 18th 7:30pm Music Practice Friday 19th 7:00pm FUEL Youth Games Night Sunday 21st 10:00am Worship Service (includes Sunday School) Speaker Michael 11:30am Morning Tea 2:00pm Glenelg Aged Care Service 5:00pm FUEL Youth Bible Study

Enjoying God, Blessing Others

Sunday 14th August 2011

Welcome to our service. We are so glad you are with us. We are a company of ordinary people who love Jesus and want to share his love and care with everybody. It is our prayer that God will speak with you today.

Our Upcoming Highlights

Monthly Prayer Day at the Church: TONIGHT4:30-6:00pm FUEL Youth Games Night: Friday 19th August7:30-9:30pm Glenelg Aged Care Service: Sunday 21st August2pm Church Quarterly Meeting: Sunday 28th August12:30pm Ladies Beading Afternoon: Saturday 10th September1:30pm Pastor:
Rev Michael Drennan 11 Webb Court Portland Ph: 5523 4893 M: 0408 568 887 mdrennan@eftel.net.au

BULLETIN NOTICES: To place

notices in the bulletin, please contact Jolene Adams on 5521 1875 or email Jolene@bbr.com.au by 10:00am Thursdays. Thank you.

Roster: 21st August 2011

Door Greeting: Door & Offering: Downstairs D&O: Childrens Talk: Media Desk: J Goldsworthy Doug Smith Bruce Honeybun Jim Blake Ian, Camden, Jason Morning Tea: L&D Oakley & Bristow Offering Counting: B Honeybun & D Mitchell Lawns & Garden: Smith Church House: Judy Blake Church Cleaning: Goldsworthy Hall/Kitchen Clean: Dalliston

Thank you to everyone for your faithful support. Items most needed include: canned vegetables; pasta; shampoo; conditioner; jam; tissues; soup; tea; coffee; sugar; toiletries; biscuits. Place donations in the foyer trolley or in the marked box on the piano downstairs .

Loaves & Fishes

Secretary:
Jim Blake 39 Patrick Street Portland Ph: 5523 2347 M: 0425 714 633 jim.blake@bigpond.com.au

Our website: www.portlandbaptist.org.au

Going Hunting
By the time you read this column I will have returned from a hunting trip in the concrete jungle of The Big Smoke. However, as I write this, I have just arrived in Melbourne and am making sure I have everything needed to make this hunting trip successful. What am I hunting for? Animals? Nopeif that were the case I would have stopped at the Werribee Open Range Zoo. Grand Final tickets for the Bulldogs? No, not this decade. I am tracking down practical thingslike a school for our kids to attend and a house to rent. My hunting checklist goes something like this: School prospectus and interview questions.check! Map of eastern Melbournepacked and ready to go. List of rental propertiesall arranged by neighbourhood. Fear of failing and completely striking outyep! Wait where did this come from? The last item I didnt intentionally mean to bring along. It must have jumped in the car as I was filling up with petrol in Portland. But that is the way fear works. You never want it to be there but it can show up when least expected. If not acknowledged, fear can be harmful in the life of a person. First, it can produce doubt. Doubt about what? Doubt that a person has the ability to make a right decision (and consequently affirm that any decision will be wrong). Next, it can paralyze one from making a decision at all. Have you ever been stuck in a queue behind someone that cant make up his or her mind? They get so frustrated at their indecision that their thought process becomes immobile. Fear can do the same thing. Finally, fear produces compromise. Wanting to get through the situation quickly can cause a person to settle on something that is good, but may not be the best. Honestly, I am feeling a bit of all three! However, fear can also do something elsedrive a person to God. Amid all of my feelings this week (and it is only Monday) I am also reminded of the words in Isaiah 41:10, Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. What mighty words of encouragement! Fear often greets us when we face something new. Right now I am about to face an unknown couple of days. Portland Baptist is walking in some unknown territory too. Ultimately, we have to keep moving forward and making decisions. My prayer this that we believe our faithful God is thereevery step of the wayin every school interview, in every house rental, and in every conversation with a Senior Pastor candidate. These are exciting, sometimes, nerve-racking days ahead of us. Thanks for praying for us in this journey. We are praying for you too.

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Col. 4:2

Our Giving
Total July Offering: $15,240 Monthly Budget: $16,250 Weekly Target: $ 3,750 Weekly Average $ 3,810 (avg. from 1st January 2011) Week Week Week Week 3rd July 10th July 17th July 24th July $3,740 $2,336 $6,457 $2,707

Those with various health needs Margaret Wiltshire, Thelma Brown, Matt Harris, Terese and Stuart Oakley, Gillian Karlberg, and others. Many with chest/cold/flu infections currently.

Blessings on Nola and Mike as they

start their life together as husband and wife.

Father Denis (All Saints) as he

concludes his ministry in the next two weeks.

The Northern Territory work party

and the families left behind

Mieke and Dallas Walker - not much

longer in their time away

Direct Debit Payments for offerings and donations can be made electronically. Details are as follows: Acc Name: Portland Baptist Church Direct Offering BSB 704 922 Account No. 100 006 869

Diaconate - meeting on Monday night

Monday Adrienne Caddick & Rodney Groves Tuesday Len & Lee Caddick Wednesday Sebastian & Emily Carroll Thursday Melissa Chisholm & Daniel Wells Friday Ray & Joan Clegg Saturday Robyn Coad Sunday Peter & Tanya Cocks, Jack, Toby, Liam

Building Fund
July Donations: $810 B/F available balance: $88,567

Total Building Fund raised to end of July: $521,325

All gifts to the building fund are fully tax deductible. Please take the information sheets (blue & yellow) and envelopes are available in the porch. You can deposit straight into the building fund via internet banking using the following information: Acc Name: Portland Baptist Church Direct Building Fund BSB 704 922 Account No 100 007 044

Michael

Lets press on in faith!

DATES TO REMEMBER
Mission Team - Work Party to the Northern Territory: August 12th-22nd - departed Tuesday 9th Monthly Prayer Day: TONIGHT - 4:30-6:00pm Deacons Meeting: Monday 15th August - 7:30pm Weekly Prayer Group at Church House: Tuesdays 10:30-11:30am FUEL Youth Games Night: Next Friday 12th - 7:00-9:30pm Glenelg Aged Care Service: Sunday 21st - 2:00pm Silver Threads Craft Group: Tuesday 23rd - 12:00 noon Lighthouse Depression Support Meeting at PAC: Tuesday 23rd August - 7:30pm Church Quarterly Meeting: Sunday 28th August - 12:30pm

Bulletin Bytes
If you would like notices in the Bulletin in the next 2 weeks, please see Jolene - see back page for details. Thanks!

Our Monthly Prayer Daythis afternoon!

Please join us in the church hall for our monthly time of prayer. We will start at 4:30pm and concluding at 6pm. A soup and bread fellowship will immediately follow. As always, arrive when you want and leave when you must. The format for today is as follows: 4:30 - 4:45 Silent Prayer and Reflection 4:45 - 5:00 Discuss and share items to uplift in prayer 5:00 - 5:30 Small group prayer 5:30 - 6:00 Large group prayer
Note: The day has been moved to the second Sunday afternoon of each month.

Our weekly Prayer Group meets every Tuesday at the Church House from 10.30-11.30am. Everyone is encouraged to join in this vital ministry - you will find a very warm welcome there!

Outreach to the Outback!

Quarterly Church Meeting

Sunday 28th August, 12:30pm following a shared lunchcan everyone please bring a finger food lunch plate to share.

~ NT Mission Team 2011~

Our NT Mission Team left on Tuesday, thank you for all your support. Please remember to pray for: Those on the trip: Glenn Sobey, Peter Malseed, Mark Atwell, Peter Cocks, Ian Jeffries, Ted Skewes, Wilma and Roger Crouch. Their families throughout the next 2 3 weeks while the team is away. Norm & Karen as they return to mission after Norms illness, for renewed health and energy. And Thank You - to everyone for your amazingly generous response to the appeal for Norm and Karens Mission Op Shops. A mountain of clothing, toys, sporting goods and linen has been collected (including donations from Warrnambool Baptist). 37 cartons are currently en route to Alice Springs - and beyond this week with the team.

Infants & preschoolers.. Parents are

welcome to use the Parents room just off the foyer, with activities for children up to 12 months, especially during our prayer time and the sermon if your child is unsettled. It is sound-linked to the auditorium. The Preschooler Sunday School runs all year round during the service, with Bible stories, activities and crafts. For ages 2Prep, downstairs (door just past side gate).

FUEL Youth GAMES NIGHT

Next Friday 19th August in the Hall 7:30-9:30pm Cost $4

WANTED!
Young Volunteers are needed for our worship services, media helpers who will learn how to use the media desk equipment, both upstairs and downstairs. Website helpers are also wanted and training is provided. Please see Peter Dalliston for more details on both matters.

NOTES...

Ladies' Fellowship
Saturday, 10th September , 1:30 to 3:30 pm Kath Lewis' house Cost: $10
All ladies are invited to an afternoon make a of beading and style the fellowship. You will be able to Pandora that depicts bracelet

Directory Changes
Stuart & Terese Oakley: New address: 151 Otway Street, Portland Phone 5523 5897 Graeme Hayes: New Email: graeme_hayes@bigpond.com Rosie Honeybun: New address: 3/18 Carnoustie Circuit, Northlakes, NT, 0812

Please update your directories accordingly with these changes.

> to those who shared in the service at Seaview House last Sunday. We appreciate your support in this special time of worship. > to Sue Honeybun for sharing your story with the ladies of BWF on Tuesday. > and to Roger Mibus for volunteering to be our Drik Drik Christmas Fellowship Coordinator.

Psalm 23 passageor design your own bracelet from a variety of beads. Please bring a plate of afternoon tea to share. spaces. Supplies for only 30 RSVP to Christy

Drennan (5523 4893) or email: drennanfamily@gmail.com