This Sunday is our annual mid-year meeting (11:30-1:00, onsite and online) as well as an open house for the completed renovations. As you are hopefully aware, we have been renovating the upstairs and downstairs offices in order to move our creche and preschool ministries downstairs. The rooms that have housed these important ministries are upstairs (not great from an emergency evacuation perspective!) and are a little tired (though the team has done a great job to make them engaging for the kids!). The renovated spaces downstairs are both safer and better suited for these ministries and we’re excited to begin moving everything in over the school holidays, ready for Term 3.

The two rooms where creche and preschool have been housed are now freed up to become mid-size meeting rooms which will be incredibly valuable. In fact, we have already used the preschool room to host Alpha this last term (And a big thanks to the kid's ministry team for making that work!). With nearly thirty participants it was the perfect space to host in and provided a vision for the future.

Finally, all of the ministry offices will now be in one location - upstairs. The new space is fantastic and we are all looking forward to fully moving in over the next couple of weeks.

So, do have a sticky beak of the new creche and preschool space (entry on the far side of the coffee machine) on Sunday morning after the service, join us to hear ministry reports from the first part of the year, and then have a look at the upstairs offices before you go!

Hope to see you Sunday!

Marc Rader | Senior Pastor 

This Weekend:

Coming Up:

6 July | Embrace Ladies Luncheon 

Congratulations to Jacquie Gosbell & Jared Raval - Married Thursday 25 June at Kangaroo Valley. We wish them every blessing as they begin their married life together. Jacquie and Jared are part of our morning congregation and Mother of the Bride Antonia Gosbell also attends GBC. 

Congratulations to Coralie Ford’s son, Joshua Ford and his new Fiancée Lillian Milenkovic, who got engaged this week! Wishing both families much joy as they celebrate this exciting new chapter.

Please continue to pray for those who are unwell. Continue to pray for Mark & Cathy Drurys son Brendan and the Jones family with Jarrod Jones undergoing treatment.

Have something to celebrate, share, or pray about? Whether it's a graduation, engagement, wedding, new baby, new job, house move, health concern, or praise point, we'd love to hear from you. Contact the church office at office@gymeabaptist.org.au or 9521 4611 so we can share in these moments as a church family.

You’re invited to come along to the Embrace Ladies Luncheon being held on Monday 6th July 11.30am to 2.00pm in the GBC Atrium. Bring your friends or just come and meet other ladies from our church and the community.

Our Special Guest is Nicole Southworth ‘A long time local Artist’ who will be painting for us. The painting will be raffled off at the end of the luncheon with the monies going to Hopefield.

You can register [HERE] or with Janine after the Sunday morning services and pay $20 for the lunch. RSVP Wednesday 1st July.

This Sunday, following our morning service, we will be holding our Mid-Year Meeting from 11:30am–1:00pm.

We would love for you to join us, either online or onsite. 

Click here to join Meeting on Zoom 

https://zoom.us/j/2462252181

Meeting ID: 246 225 2181

We will also be hosting an Open House to check out our newly completed renovations together!

Next week is HopeDrive, and the shelves are low!

Let's be big-hearted, others-focused during this time of need in our community. HopeDrive will take place next Sunday, the last Sunday of the month, but non-perishable food donations are welsome anytime in the tubs the church foyer or on any Sunday!

You can also support Hopefield financially through a financial donation

Click [HERE] for the June Shopping list

Looking for a simple way to support Hopefield? Lace up and join us for Sutherland to Surf. All donations raised will ensure our programs continue and (bonus) you get a great active morning out with a bunch of like minded people in the HOPETEAM!

Click [HERE] to register for S2S

Clicker [HERE] to create you fundraising page 

Click [HERE] to sponser the HOPETEAM  

All donations given to Hopefield before June 30 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $60,000! This is incredibly exciting because it means your donation will go twice as far and have double the impact in supporting those in need.

$100 becomes $200

$200 becomes $400

$500 becomes $1,000

If you are a person who desires to be on-purpose and others-focussed and prefers a behind the scene role, then I want to chat to you!  We have two opportunities for serving that are ‘behind the scenes’ but will make a HUGE impact for others.

Do you love seeing a welcoming space ready for people to meet with Jesus? Do you love seeing people engage in worship on a Sunday? We need help preparing the auditorium space to be welcoming and ready on a Sunday for both our morning and evening services.  We are looking for about 10 able bodied team members who could help set up and move chairs on a Sunday. We would love to have a team who could commit to arriving on Sunday morning by 8:30am to set up for the morning service, and a team who would be willing to set up for the evening service either after the morning service around 11:15am or before the evening service at 4:00pm. If you are interested in joining this team or finding out more information, then complete the Volunteer Expression of Interest or chat to Marjy, GBC Serve Team Leader.

Do you love seeing people come together and build community? After our PM Service, we share a meal together. We have an amazing team of cooks who prepare a simple meal each Sunday evening. To assist that team of cooks, we are looking for someone who would have the capacity to shop for the ingredients for those meals and have those ingredients in the GBC kitchen by 2:00pm each Sunday. All purchases are reimbursed by GBC and a shopping list is provided. If you are interested in finding out more about this role then then complete the Volunteer Expression of Interest or chat to Marjy, GBC Serve Team Leader.