Family Church Waterside

Following from previous weeks very much focusing on evangelism, this week Dan speaks about the importance of us living lives that point to Christ.

Ps Paul continues the current series about God wanting a big family, this week focusing on how we must not only reach our immediate personal family, but also look within our circle of influence (our Jerusalem) and initiate conversations here as well!

Ps Paul explores God's heart for household salvation & practical ways that we can reach our unsaved family members .

Ps Paul explores how it is God's desire that everyone becomes part of His family and the responsibility this puts on us as God's ambassadors to reach the lost.

Paul explores how the death of Jesus was necessary in order to be a seed to produce a harvest of souls (John 12:23-24) and how we are called to carry this message of the cross into our worlds.

Ps Paul delivers an amazing message this Easter Day!

Dan Webb launches the Multiply aspect of 'Magnify and Multiply', by exploring in the Old and New Testament how it has always been God's will for us to multiply and be fruitful for His purposes.

Pastor Paul concludes the series on the Word of God, further exploring its spiritual authority and how, through submission to the Word, we can operate in that authority.

Steve Smith continues the series on the Word of God, exploring its spiritual authority and how this outworks in our lives.

Pastor Paul continues the series on the Word of God, exploring the Parable of the Sower and God's intention for our heart to be 'good soil', so that the Word can produce a harvest in our lives.

Pastor Paul continues the series on the Word of God, exploring the unending truth of scripture and how His truth becomes our truth.

Dan begins the first of a five part series about the Word of God. This first message is all about revealing What is the Word of God. Its important we understand what the word is. The Word of God is God. Dan speaks about how Rhema words are those which are God breathed, inspired, and have a transforming nature in our lives. We need Rhema words for our situations, not just Logos words - the physical word itself.

As part of the building vision offering, Ps Paul explores FC Waterside's journey over the last 14 years.

Continuing the present mini series on Worship, this week Ps Paul speak on How do we Worship.

Pastor Paul continues the series on worship by looking at who we worship.

Ps Paul begins the new series of Magnify and Multiply, using Biblical examples to explore what worship is and how people can aim their worship in the wrong direction.

Ps Paul shared the local vision goals that Family Church Waterside are believing God for and working towards for 2025, as well an update on the purchase of St Francis Church and the upcoming building vision offering.

Ps Andy delivers a keynote message today regarding vision for the whole of Family Church during 2025. He explains how important it is for us to have a vision (Proverbs 29:18, Where there is no vision, the people perish) and thanks all those who have contributed in any way to the outworking of the church vision the previous year. Ps Andy then concentrates his message around two words the Lord gave him, namely Magnify and Multiply. With reference to a myriad of scriptures he explains the vision for all of the Family Church congregations tying this in with God's Word.

Ps Paul completes the three part series entitled God of My Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, this week speaking about how God is also God of our Tomorrows.

Ps Paul continues the new series by exploring that every day (today) is a gift from God, a fresh start in Him and a new opportunity to be used and changed by HIm.

Ps Paul begins a new three parts series looking at how God is not just our God of today but in reality he is our God of yesterday as well as today and then tomorrow. However we cannot live in the present enjoying Gods richness for our lives if we look often to the past .

Finishing up one year and heading into another, we tend to review what has been and plan out what is to come. Do these plans ever consider God in them?

At this Christmastide, Ps Paul speaks about how Jesus is the true light of the world.

Steve Smith shares a Christmas message on how Jesus is the indescribable gift to our lives (2 Corinthians 9:15).

Ps Andy speaks about the Love of God, how God is Love, how His love is unconditional. Romans 8:38 tells us... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Ps Andy delivers an awe inspiring message that ends quoting the hymn:-The steadfast love of the Lord never ceasesHis mercies never have come to an endThey are new every morningNew every morningGreat is Thy faithfulness, O LordGreat is Thy faithfulness God's love is steadfast, unchanging and is new every day for us!

Pastor Paul concludes the series on Psalm 23, exploring the sixth verse on how The Shepherd's desire is for His outpouring of blessings of goodness, mercy and love to be our everyday experience and how we dwell in the House of the Lord, whether that be gathering with other believers (church), spending time in His presence and carrying His presence as well as the eternal reality of Heaven itself.

Pastor Paul continues the series on Psalm 23, exploring the fifth verse on how Jesus as our shepherd prepares a feast before us amongst our enemies and anoints our head with oil.

Pastor Paul continues the series on Psalm 23, exploring the fourth verse on how Jesus is with us each step of the way through difficult circumstances and how He uses His Shepherd's rod and staff to bring us comfort.

Pastor Paul continues the series on Psalm 23, exploring the third verse on how Jesus refreshes/restores our soul and leads us along righteous paths, all for His glory.

Pastor Paul continues the series on Psalm 23, exploring the second verse on what it means for our lives as The Shepherd leads us into green (fresh) pastures.

Pastor Paul begins a new series on Psalm 23, exploring the first verse on why we need to be guided by The Shepherd and His promise that we will not lack in both our practical and spiritual needs.

As part of Family Church's Global Sunday, several people read scriptures in their native languages and share on their background and how Christianity operates in their country of birth.

Ps Geoff concludes the series on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit by exploring how He grows us through the fruit of the Spirit and equips us through the gifts of the Spirit.

Ps Gina continues the series on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit by exploring how He empowers us for all that God has called us to do.

Nacho continues the series Jesus Empowers, this week speaking on the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

Ps Paula launches the series on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit by looking at who the Holy Spirit is.

Ps Andy speaks across all Family Church congregations about the next phase of our discipleship journey. At the start of the year we concentrated on two sets of teachings. The first one was called Jesus is - Christology. We looked at the person of Jesus, who the Bible reveals Him to be in the Old and the New Testaments. Following this, we moved on to a second series called Soteriology, the doctrine of salvation. We took a few weeks to study, how incredible our Salvation is, how wonderfully the Lord has saved us, what He achieved in the finished work of the Cross with Jesus. Ps Andy then speaks about how we are to move to a third part of our discipleship series, which we are calling 'Jesus Empowers'. This is Pneumatology and it's the Doctrine or the study of the person and works of the Holy Spirit.Ps Andy continues with an introduction to this series which again is fundamental to our understanding of our Christian walk.

Summer Camp attendees share their testimonies of how God has impacted their life over the week.

Ps Wendy explores our relationship with God as our father and how we should respond to this with childlike faith, fully relying upon Him.

Ps Paul explores how God desires to use every one of us for His purposes - are we willing to be a living sacrifice, trained and transformed by God and obedient to the call upon our lives?

Steve Smith brings a message on Faith and Words. He visits three miraculous healings performed by Jesus, and also those who took those steps of faith knowing that Jesus had the power to just speak healing into their situations.

Daniel speaks on the what are your steps as a Christian. How do you make sure you are following God? Are you being distracted and going the wrong way? Simple steps in looking at where you are and where you are going to keep your focus on Christ.

Ps Steu encourages us to never despise the day of our perceived small beginnings, based on Zechariah 4:6-10, as God is always on the move behind the scenes and as we choose to trust Him, He will fulfil His great plan ahead for our lives.

Ps Paul explores how God is not limited in any way in His thinking or abilities and that He therefore has a different perspective to us on our lives and the situations that we face. God's heart is to reveal more to us of who He is and how He operates in order to reframe our perspectives so that they line up with His.

Jan Hayter explores how spending time with Jesus covers us with His 'aroma' and how we can carry and spread this 'aroma' to others.

Ps Paul completes the series exploring the church's vision for the Waterside.

Ps Paul continues the series exploring the church's vision for the Waterside.

Ps Paul starts a new series looking at the church's vision for the Waterside.

Ps Paul completes this series, Soteriology, speaking about Adoption. We have been adopted out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. Understanding our Sonship, our adoption by God ought to give us greater information leading to revelation leading to transformation in our lives.

Continuing the present series on the benefits of our salvation, this week, Steve speaks about sanctification. Only Jesus can sanctify us though His precious blood. We are sanctified the moment we are saved when we accept Jesus as Saviour and our sins are forgiven.

Ps Paul continues the series on the doctrine of salvation (Soteriology), by exploring how God desires us to live in freedom through the revelation of the redemptive work of the cross.