Author Archives: marsdenfund

Giving my first sermon at church I gave my first sermon at St John’s in May, on Ecclesiastes 7:1-8:1. It wasn’t an easy passage to preach on. It required a lot of hard work in prayer and sitting under God’s word. That being said, it was a delight to prepare. I am incredibly thankful for howContinue reading “Nathan’s April/May 2022 Update”

Friday Hangs in Term 2  Since Friday Hangs has kicked off in Term 2, God has been really kind in helping us reach out to the local youth of Parramatta. We’ve seen around 7 students from these schools become quite regular and God has provided really awesome gospel conversations with a couple of them inContinue reading “Victor’s April/May 2022 Update”

Growth Groups Growth groups kicked off at the start of February, and I will continue to lead two growth groups this year. I will be leading an 11am congregation group with Helen (my wife) and Thomas. The goal I have set for myself this year is to be able to provide better guidance and feedbackContinue reading “Nathan’s Feb/March 2022 Update”

Explore for Term 1 Kicks Off! Praise God for His gift of salvation to one of our attendees! Kicking off Friday Hangs In March, our youth ministry kicked off Friday Hangs again! The last time we ran it was in June 2021 before the lockdown period so our team was ready to go. One challenge thatContinue reading “Victor’s Feb/March 2022 Update”

December Christmas! Christmas was a tumultuous time (as you may also recall)! St John’s usually runs Christmas eve services, as well as a Christmas day services. Boxing day fell on a Sunday, which meant organising eight English services over the course of three days. This made late December the busiest time of the year in theContinue reading “Nathan’s Dec/Jan 2022 Update”

Dec On Mission  At the end of December, around 40 volunteers from around Sydney was keen to serve and share the gospel with the people of Currarong. As you may have seen from my posts on Facebook, this was unfortunately cut short by a week because someone in our team had tested positive. I reallyContinue reading “Victor’s Dec/Jan 2022 Update”

Feeling Weak I’ve felt really humbled by God in my weakness over these past couple months by two particular things. The first one is regarding health where my younger brother Jayden where he was pretty knocked out one morning and struggled to respond to the questions we were asking him. It was definitely a bit ofContinue reading “Victor’s September/October 2021 Update”

One of our musical items for our ‘Full of Hope’ Service: Blessed Assurance    Highlight: One of the big things I got to work on in the months of September and October was our church-wide ‘Full of Hope’ service. Each year, our church would look forward to a combined service of the year. Over 500 ofContinue reading “Nathan’s September/October 2021 Update”

Ministry Highlight & ReflectionSeptember and October have been interesting as we both joyfully come to the end of a 3 months lockdown, and anxiously begin packing our calendars and meeting face to face again. On a personal front, I really enjoyed meeting people face to face, whether that is gathering up in home as growth groups to read God’s word together, servingContinue reading “Susan’s September/October 2021 Update”

Ministry Highlight & Reflection One of my ministry highlights in August is witnessing God’s providence in reinvigorating the Parramatta Worker’s Ministry while we are in lockdown.  I had the great pleasure and privilege of working with my trainer and evangelist from City Bible Forum, Caroline Spencer, on preparing, organising and sharpening the online Share Jesus training that we hadContinue reading “Susan’s August 2021 Update”