May God bless you richly,
and may you participate joyfully in His work...
"Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!" (Revelation 7:12)
Pastor's Letter to TBC Family
What a year 2021 has been at Tahmoor Baptist Church! We've been in-person, on-Zoom, back in-person, face masks, no face masks, face masks again, singing, no singing, singing again... It's been a challenging year in many respects - Nigel was called to pastor a church in Sydney, we spent nearly 4 months of the year in lockdown, since June there's been so much uncertainty!
Yet despite all of this, TBC is still going strong! Look at the photos in the above picture (and on the Gallery page) and praise God for all he has done at TBC these past 6 months! We've letterbox-dropped 1,000 postcards, over 1,000 flyers, we've run 2 Christmas Markets, a Christmas Carols service, Brigades is seeing new people join, we've put up a sign and nativity and with all of this, we are becoming more and more visible to the community!
We've preached through the Nicene Creed, the Sermon on the Mount, the Book of Daniel, as well as topical series on unity, Jesus - better than expected, and the advent series on Responding to Truth! What a year 2021 has been!
Let's praise God for his faithfulness and give thanks for sustaining us through these tricky times! And while all praise and glory belongs to God, Mel and I would like to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who came to church, who joined on Zoom, who served in a big or small way, throughout our 6 months at TBC! You have made us feel welcome, but even better, look at the photo again and rejoice at all that you have done in just this 6 months! God's grace has been more than sufficient!
Let's pray for 2022 - may God do even more in this coming year than he did in 2021! And let's pray for God to bring the community that's still 'outside' the church 'inside' the church so they can hear the gospel! I put an invitation to come to church on one of the Wollondilly Facebook groups, and it has had a very positive response - may God bring some of those who 'liked' the post through the front doors!
See you tomorrow as we begin looking at the Book of Psalms. And a very Happy New Year to you all!
In Christ,
Clayton Ryan
Interim Pastor
Tahmoor Baptist Church
Pastor's Letter to TBC Family
What a year 2021 has been at Tahmoor Baptist Church! We've been in-person, on-Zoom, back in-person, face masks, no face masks, face masks again, singing, no singing, singing again... It's been a challenging year in many respects - Nigel was called to pastor a church in Sydney, we spent nearly 4 months of the year in lockdown, since June there's been so much uncertainty!
Yet despite all of this, TBC is still going strong! Look at the photos in the above picture (and on the Gallery page) and praise God for all he has done at TBC these past 6 months! We've letterbox-dropped 1,000 postcards, over 1,000 flyers, we've run 2 Christmas Markets, a Christmas Carols service, Brigades is seeing new people join, we've put up a sign and nativity and with all of this, we are becoming more and more visible to the community!
We've preached through the Nicene Creed, the Sermon on the Mount, the Book of Daniel, as well as topical series on unity, Jesus - better than expected, and the advent series on Responding to Truth! What a year 2021 has been!
Let's praise God for his faithfulness and give thanks for sustaining us through these tricky times! And while all praise and glory belongs to God, Mel and I would like to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who came to church, who joined on Zoom, who served in a big or small way, throughout our 6 months at TBC! You have made us feel welcome, but even better, look at the photo again and rejoice at all that you have done in just this 6 months! God's grace has been more than sufficient!
Let's pray for 2022 - may God do even more in this coming year than he did in 2021! And let's pray for God to bring the community that's still 'outside' the church 'inside' the church so they can hear the gospel! I put an invitation to come to church on one of the Wollondilly Facebook groups, and it has had a very positive response - may God bring some of those who 'liked' the post through the front doors!
See you tomorrow as we begin looking at the Book of Psalms. And a very Happy New Year to you all!
In Christ,
Clayton Ryan
Interim Pastor
Tahmoor Baptist Church
Since June 2021, Clayton Ryan has joined us as Interim Pastor
We are delighted and thank God for His provision.
Find out more about Clayton and his wife, Melissa, at 'Our Leaders'.
We are delighted and thank God for His provision.
Find out more about Clayton and his wife, Melissa, at 'Our Leaders'.
