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"Pressure. Pushing down on me, pressing down on you. Under Pressure!"

It’s a reality we all experience. Constantly. Life is hard, marriages take work, raising kids will test you or break your heart. The weight of expectation on our lives is enormous. Under pressure.

What’s your pressure point? The thing that weighs you down, causes uncomfortable stress, squeezes the life out of you or is close to breaking you? Where do you turn when the pain threshold is reached and the pressure points of life are unbearable?

Join us for a five week series as we open the Bible and discover a God who is more than able, who meets us with a word of grace and hope to relieve the burden and enable us to thrive at every pressure point.

Begins 22 September 2024. Join us in person or watch via livestream on our channel at [www.youtube.com/LifeWayLutheranChurch](https://www.youtube.com/@LifeWayLutheranChurch).

LifeWay has the opportunity to partner with ALWS for exciting new refugee settlement program.

LifeWay Wollongong have returned to:

1/8 Kenny Street, Wollongong

We would love you to come and visit. Join us for worship 10.30am each Sunday.

This search-and-find activity book will help kids get to know the Bible in a fun and engaging way.

You've heard of Disney World; now welcome to Bible World!

This search-and-find book visualises various Bible genres as a series of lands in a theme park with detailed, fun and colourful Where's Wally-style illustrations.

As children explore these Bible "lands", they'll discover for themselves the way Scripture has been collected and organised from Genesis to Revelation. They will also see the main theme that runs throughout the BibleGods promise of a rescuing King and its fulfilment in Jesus Christ.

Explanations of the different Bible genres are included, as well as specific Bible heroes and events for children to spot. It's a fun and engaging way for kids to learn more about the Bible.

Written by Mike Nappa, award-winning children's author, and best-selling creator of many books for families. His highlight reel includes several VeggieTales comics, the Bibleman Bible Storybook and the Gold Medallion-nominated Family Nights Tool Chest series. Illustrated by Emiliano Migliardo.

[Available at www.shopACR.com.au for $23.99](https://www.shopacr.com.au/P702664/Welcome-to-BibleWorld/pd.php)

Detached. Disengaged. Disinterested. That’s often how the Church has been when it comes to the cities and communities in which we live. We’re scared about getting involved. We’re unsure about what to say. We’re careful not to become too attached. But God has a different vision for our lives. He calls us to be all in. Involved. Interested. Fully Committed to him. Fully invested in the communities he loves. Fully engaged in bringing his life and hope where we live. The stakes are high. The future of our communities depends on it. So join us for a series in the book of Jeremiah so that we might become fully engaged in and for our communities.

The Table has always been a great ministry opportunity. Read the Gospel of Luke especially and you will see that Jesus met, healed and transformed many lives around the table.

Around a table, we have unhurried time.

Around a table, we get to know people deeper

Around a table, we make new friends.

Around a table, we reveal the presence of Christ.

OUR VISION 2030 BEYOND LIMITS CHALLENGE FOR 2024

600 Table Moments hosted by LifeWay members.

600 moments to live his love, share his hope and grow in his grace together.

That is 2-3 invitations for every member.

This is not about doing anything extra from what you do already! It’s simply being intentional in those Table Moments.

- Think about those neighbours or work colleagues that you could get to know better.

- Invite them for a meal.

- Share stories as you do over a meal – how do you meet, what brought you to this suburb.

- Pray – maybe just ask the Lord’s blessing over your meal with a table grace…or before they leave just ask if there is anything you can pray for them, or simply offer this prayer. Dear Jesus, thank you for bringing ______here today. Thank you for the opportunity to get to know them. Watch over and bless them in the coming week. Amen. It is that simple.

- Take a photo (if it is appropriate) or simply fill in a Table Moment card at each centre as we build a wall of Table moments to pray over and ask God to use for his purposes.

May God bless the Table Moments you share in 2024!

"Sam Chen helps all of us to not be "that guy" so we can point people to the person of Jesus. Sam has taken a heavy topic and made it into a breezy read that will inform, amuse and inspire." - Abdu Murray⁠

Most Christians know they should be trying to tell their friends and family about Jesus. But in a post-Christendom world, personal evangelism is viewed negatively--it's offensive, inappropriate, and insensitive. Recent studies confirm that the majority of Christians rarely evangelise, worried they might offend their family or lose their friends. In How to Talk About Jesus (Without Being That Guy), author Sam Chan equips everyday Christians who are reluctant and nervous to tell their friends about Jesus with practical, tested ways of sharing their faith in the least awkward ways possible.

Drawing from over two decades of experience as an evangelist, teacher, and pastor, Chan explains why personal evangelism feels so awkward today. And utilising recent insights from communication theory, cross-cultural ministry, and apologetics, he helps you build confidence in sharing your faith, and teaches you how to evangelise your friends and family in socially appropriate ways.

There is so much happening across LifeWay! As momentum picks up, we want to deliberately, as a community across our sites, cover the ministry in prayer. So would you join us every day at 10:10am in saying out Vision2030 prayer?

God, prepare our hearts for what you have for us next, and give us a heart of faith to go where you call us to go. Amen.

Set your phone alarm with a special ring to remind you to bring before God the Vision 2030 pathway he has called us to. Prayer cards for you to keep handy are available at each LifeWay site.