September 2012

Peria Assembly of God

Matamata Newsletter Church

All because He cares

Greeting everyone, it is in deed a great pleasure for me to greet you once again with another addition of our Church newsletter. Last month weve been discussing about the Book of Revelation in regards to the soon return of our Lord. It does concern me that this subject has been missing from many pulpits today, it has become an unpopular message, and we ask why? A preacher said I wonder whether the gospel we preach today is the same as the apostles preached two thousand years ago. The gospel of Christ is incomplete without the preaching of His coming. Whole Gospel of Christ display the very heart of God, as it says in John 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON THAT WHO SOEVER BELIEVED IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE The gospel is not to tell the people how much they deserve judgment because of their sin. The Apostle John wrote this is the good news, God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His son, whoever has the Son has life and whoever does not have the Son doesnt have life. I we want to see how much love God has for His people, just look at Calvary. Calvary displayed the heart of God. He took away our weaknesses and removed

CHURCH WEBSITES
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our diseases. Matt 8:17 (GW) He took the punishment that was
supposed to be upon us, so that we can experience freedom in our very own personal life every single day we live, that is by living with Christ. That means to tell us, for me to live is Christ. It is clear that man cannot live without God, we can only see life fulfilling when we have Christ in our life.

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VANUATU

Pastor Koroi conducting water Baptism in Nukualofa Pastor Josua Beraki in Vanuatu with Pastor Jone Please do continue to pray for our missionaries and their families

TOWER OF LIGHT
You are light for the world. A city cannot be hidden when it is located on a hill. Matthew 5:14 Matt 5:14 (GW)
the encouragement we have to take is that God is calling us to involve more in His great work. In Matthew 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is large, but the workers are few we can see here clearly that the problem is that there is not many people who can commit themselves to the work in the harvest field. But I believe that many believers today they can only move when God shows something to them in a very personal way, for them to be very sure that God is speaking to them. One of the greatest things we find in the Bible is that many great attempts in great work of God is obedient. Obedience of Abraham leads the world the world entire world to be blessed through Jesus Christ. Even the Lord Jesus was obedient to die so that we may live, and we can see in His ministry in whatever He does He was total in commitment, whether healing someone in the crowd or healing someone in a home. He set an example before us so that we can follow His footsteps. I believe everything we learned from Christ in our Church are firstly practiced in Church, and I can boldly say that a strong Church is formed up with strong Families.

SERVING AS A FAMILY!
What a great thing to do as family to serve in the Kingdom of God. In whatever ways that God leads you to serve in His Kingdom whether helping people assisting them with their needs or sharing the word of God, we have to do it faithfully knowing that God wants His people to show His love to the world, not just by words but also in action like what the apostle James said that FAITH WITHOUT WORK IS DEAD It does not mean that our faith has to be approved by our work? Certainly not. As a people of faith, we just have to show that we have faith in a great God, by showing His love towards people in our community. One of the greatest things I normally admire in Church is when I see family serving together in the Church, and I believe that the love of God that grows in the lives of good families inspires them to do great things for Gods Kingdom. Weve been supporting needy families in Hamilton Church and also in Peria Church. Most of the gifts we received in Church from families have helped our Church to minister not only in our community, but also in the mission field abroad. Jesus told His disciples to open their eyes and look at the fields are ready to be harvested. I think

People have time to chat with other people after the service

MATAMATA CHRISTIAN MOVIES

Film is a powerful medium with which is influence and affect individuals. A single film can impact and change peoples lives in a very good way. Christian movies in our small town Matamata is started to gain some peoples interest, and the last movie shown GRACE CARD is on a great demand to be shown again. Most of the Christian movies is family movies, and its good only for adult but for the whole family to watch. I guess some has taken advantage of this opportunity by inviting friends and relatives to watch the movie. I believe there is great chance for people to have a moment of realization after watching Christian movie.

SAMMERITAN PURSE

CHURCH PROGRAM
SUNDAY
Prayer Session - 2:30 PM Main Service - 3:00 PM - Worship - Sermon - Sunday School for Service for Kids

This is the second year our Church has been encouraged to participate in the Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate Gods love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the good news of Jesus Christ. . Operation Christmas Child is a unique project of Samaritans Purse that brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes. More than 80 million children in 130 countries have been touched by Operation Christmas Child since 1993. Through Operation Christmas Child families and individuals of all ages have the opportunity to be part of a simple, hands-on project that can transform the lives of children and families as whole communities have the opportunity for further change through other development projects. I have been involved with this project since 2006 when I moved to NZ and started working at the Baptist Church. Since 2011 I took over the Matamata Area Coordinating. Craig Scott is our New Zealand Director and I work under a lovely couple Neil and Geraldine Gumbley, who

is the Bay of Plenty Co coordinators. Between July and September thousands of volunteers fill shoe boxes by following the guide of the brochures. Some people even collect items right through the year as they see specials in the shops. Although pre-printed boxes are available, empty shoe boxes can also be used. The shoe box must then be wrapped in some lovely gift wrap. (The joy on the childrens faces to see these lovely decorated boxes is PRICELESS!!) The boxes are to be brought back to the collection points (mostly churches and by the end of October all the boxes goes to a central collection point at the Baptist Church from who kindly offered us room to store the boxes until the Area Co coordinators comes to pick them up and it is taken to Auckland for shipment to the various destinations. A good idea is to buy little things as you see them; it saves the cost of buying all the items at once and might even enable you to fill more boxes!! In His service,

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CALL FOR THE CHURCH TO PRAY

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.
The Church is universally is growing and also is changing in many ways, but there is one thing that remains the same is the guiding principles for church that is in the word of God, the Bible. Not many churches engage to prayer today, it probably people are so busy engaging themselves doing other things. The Lord taught His disciples on how prayers are important to the lives of believers. In the Acts of the Apostles, the believers in the early church commit themselves to prayer and they were consistently praying every single day. I believe that prayer is so important to the church and it is something that the church cannot go without. Heresies and deceptions has become a major problem to many churches today and I guess because of prayerlessness. If we dont have to time to pray then we will spend a lot of our time trying to sort out problems that were going to have as an effect of prayerlessness. God is calling us to pray; Pauls letter to church of the Ephesians 6:18 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. I guess churches today needs

Men Praying on the Streets of Matamata

revival, and if the church pray rival will definitely come. A seed in a dry land will wait for the rain to help the seed to germinate and makes it grow. We probably thorough with the study of the word but we need the Holy Spirit to makes that knowledge become effective in your life. Prayer will help us believers to subject ourselves to the guidance of the Spirit of God. Jesus said to His disciples, YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON YOU

COME AND FOLLOW ME

The words of Jesus to His disciples are still very powerful to us believers today. We believe that Jesus is calling every one of us to follow Him, and what happen when we follow Him our life started to change and become more like Him. That is what God will is for our lives to be transformed in the image of His Son. Jesus first four Disciples were ordinary fishermen, and out of that Jesus transformed them and changed them into powerful preacher of His word, more powerful than any prophets that ever lived before them. They cast out demons, heal the sick, feeds the hunger and many other things that makes the people filled with amazement. That what exactly what we find in the ministry of Jesus, and He said to His disciples that we will do even greater than miracles through the Holy Spirit. I believe it is about time now for us to seek the heart of the Almighty so that he may fills us with his power in order to do what he wants us to do for His Kingdom, amen.

Just imagined what will happen to this town of Matamata if all the Churches around in town, gather together and pray consistently one day every week in one year Matamata will never be the same again. Jesus said to His disciples, Matthew 28:18-20 All authority has been given to Me in 19 [c] heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son 20 and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. The Church needs to realize now that Christ has given us power, power to bring healing, restoration, to the live of people who are lost. Let us start now praying for our neighbors; people live close to where we live. The encouragement for us is for us to engage ourselves to prayer, as the Paul says to the Ephesians praying always with all prayers.