News and Information 13 May 12

Family Fun Night this Friday – 18th May, 6-8 pm. ’A minute to win it’ games, with a sausage sizzle and ice cream. See Meryl for more info.

Working Bee – Join our hive of activity this Saturday 19 May, 730-12 noon. Bee useful, bee active, bee prepared to eat! This is your direct request to pitch in, serve our church community and ease the load. Please sign up today.

Women’s Brekky – thanks! Yesterday morning’s breakfast was great. Big thanks to all who came along, and all who made it happen!

mpcCARE – All are welcome to meet in the Green Room of the Goldsmith Centre on Sunday 20 May at 12 Noon to discuss how we can best care for the people in our neighbourhood.

Mission Prayer Lunch – Let’s bring and share lunch together at Christie Sharman’s place, 5 Kennedy Place, Albany Creek, on Sunday 20 May at 1pm.   Erica Jones will be sharing about her school chaplaincy work and we will be praying for various areas of local and global evangelism.

Christianity Explored – Starts Monday May 21st with Stu Hoadley. A short course that gives you time and space to think through who Jesus is and why it matters. Take an invitation card for a friend. It’s free, but please register online at mpc.org.au/onelife as soon as you can.

The Parenting Course – Launches Tuesday June 5. Runs for six weeks with a break for school holidays. The video-based seminars feature Nicky and Sila Lee from The Marriage Course, and your on-site hosts will be Phil and Louise Campbell. Registration: Single  $50, Couple $80; includes course materials and light supper. Register and pay online at www.mpc.org.au/parenting. Discounts available – click for information on the rego page.

The Campbells will be heading off for two weeks’ break tomorrow. Contact Derek Hanna for assistance this week; Stu Hoadley will be back on deck from May 20th.

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Gary Millar gives a brief overview of Daniel to help orient us in our new study series.

The next Newcomers Afternoon Tea is on Sunday 20th May from 2:30-4:00pm.
This will be a relaxed and informal way of meeting the ministry team, discovering the ethos of mpc, and asking any questions you might have. To join us, just follow this link to register your interest, and we’ll get in touch with more details. We’d love to see you there.

We’d love to meet you this Easter… Good Friday Service at 8am followed by Hot Cross Buns, and Easter Sunday morning one service only at 9.30am. We’re at 40 Ruby Rd Mitchelton, and everyone is warmly welcome.

These days, e-books are a fact of life. Whether you’re reading on a Kindle or an iPad, we’ve got you covered. (Cool e-book pun – get it?) Click here to download last year’s complete Hebrews series for your e-reader, or click the weekly links over on the tab panel to download epub format for your iPad, or mobi format sermon ebooks for your Kindle each week.

Starting February, we’ll be joining our network partner churches (Eatons Hill, Wavell Heights, Clayfield, Wilston and Kenmore Presbyterian) in an exciting new venture. We’re working together to develop an integrated teaching program on John’s gospel called “Find Life.” Studies, children’s programs and the main church teaching program will all be co-ordinated, and linked to adverts around the north side of Brisbane.

A few months ago we set the task of every man, women and child in mpc giving $10 to EBCAids program bring run in Namibia to educate people about HIV-Aids.  If you were wondering how the program is going, you can catch up with what’s happening in this newsletter.

At Carols in the Carpark (see below), there will be a gold coin appeal for the EBCAids program.