General News
31 October, 2024
Gil’s churches combine
Gilgandra Christian Churches gathered recently for their Sunday morning service.
Gilgandra Christian Churches gathered recently for their Sunday morning service. It happens once a year, all in the one place, where the Christians of Gilgandra gather and pray, worship, and listen to God’s word being preached.
One church organises the worship and audio/visual, another the morning tea, another the offering, another the communion, another the setting up of chairs and cleaning.
It is such a wonderful display of being servant hearted, kind, each offering their gifts for the Glory of God.
Over many years this event has been one of great significance as prayers are prayed for the town, the lost and the broken.
Hearts are poured out during the worship as people sing and declare the goodness of God.
This year pastor Allan Wards message was one of a testimonial type.
“Australia for Christ is a cause bigger than ourselves, something to live for.”
Urging, “humility demands recompense to sort things out.
“What a privilege it is to share the love of God with others”.
He himself had one encounter with Christ that changed him forever.
He saw a vision of the nail pierced hands of Jesus as He suffered on that cross.
Dying in his place, he felt the magnetic pull of love as he stood there frozen as Jesus spoke to him saying “I love you and I have a plan for your life”.
He was born again and the part within him that was dead, came alive.
Insecurities, fears, and inadequacies left him as God’s love penetrated his life.
“What are we going to leave for the next generation?” he asked.
“In Gilgandra we have great history, The Coo-ees marched from here”.
What passion, what courage what a wonderful past we have.
“But we will leave the presence of God, a light to a dark world.”
“We press in, draw near to Christ, knowing Christ’s love and His Holy Spirit control us, as we have died to our old life and taken up the life of the cross”.
If we have chosen Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we are set free from sin, reconciled to our Father in heaven, and we now have a relationship with God thanks to Jesus dying on the cross for us.
Following the message, people came to the front for healing, encouragement, prayer.
Some with tears, some with joy, but all with a heart to see the Lord answer their requests.
Urged to consider our eternity, invite people to church, pray for our towns and our families, the morning finished with a time of fellowship and catching up over the tea cup like we so often do.