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23.01.2022 Regos for 'Launch' are live as of right now Loaded nachos upon arrival Quality coffee of course [iced-lattes as basic as it gets] Live and interactive recording of a Round table episode ... [Q&A on community] Park hangs & doughnuts down at Rocks Guzman is back for dinner Saturday night session https://riverlife.brushfire.com/events/491184

21.01.2022 Regos for 'Grateful' are officially open We are coming together to gather as a Young Adult community for one final time this year on Saturday 19th December. Jump on and rego now - https://riverlife.brushfire.com/events/487992

19.01.2022 See you at the 5pm tonight! 'History Makers' series launches tonight Commissioning our very own Nathan Holland as he moves into full-time mission this year Come give some love to Neesh Bekker too as she heads off to PNG pioneering a new base with YWAM... Don't forget to mask up

18.01.2022 SEASON 3 LAUNCHES TODAY Join us for this first episode where Pastor Nick and Jandee chat through some foundations of this Young adult stage of life that we find ourselves in! Listen on Spotify - https://buff.ly/36GJxt0... Listen on Simplecast - https://buff.ly/2FRUAWP

16.01.2022 When going to vote, generally just before you get through the doors you inevitably encounter the sea of different party representatives, all in different coloured shirts trying to hand you a voting card on how to order your preferences to align yourself with their party. The different people, the different colours, the different order of preferences, at some level it all speaks to the irony that on a day the entire country is unified in going to the polls, disunity can also c...ome in that we don’t all vote the same and disconnection arises out of disagreement. Unfortunately, at times unity in the Church can be reflective of popular culture in this sense. We gather around agreement instead of love and our preference instead of His presence. The problem is that if our unity is dependent on our agreement, then our disagreement fuels division. But, if our unity is dependent on our love for one another, then disagreement doesn’t compromise our unity - it actually presents an opportunity to choose love and build it. There is an attempt in this cultural moment to make our unity politically focussed instead of Jesus focussed. Biblically we know that there is a blessing that comes in unity and in Ephesians Paul talks about ‘doing the work of keeping the unity.’ The implication here is that unity already exists in the Church because Christ is the head of the Church. Paul also talks about one spirit, one baptism and our confession unifying us as one body. Our job, therefore, isn’t to create unity - Jesus has done that. Our job is to work to keep unity. The other implication here is that unity doesn’t and won’t just happen. There will be things that happen which could create disunity. In the face of these, we are called to go to work. Biblical unity runs deeper than agreement, or at least it’s supposed to. Our unity can’t be dependent on our preference for how things are done, sound or look. Our unity isn’t dependent on what we align ourselves to - it’s dependent on the One we align ourselves with. If we are truly one body, aligned with Jesus, we can never become all that we’re meant to be while we gossip about, dishonour and undervalue other parts based on something as surface level as personal preference. There is a responsibility we have even in our disagreement, our pain and even in the ways, we have been dishonoured to do the work of keeping unity. This doesn’t excuse that someone else’s behaviour itself maybe wasn’t inline with keeping the unity and there are biblical ways to address that. Ultimately though, we can’t control how other people behave but we can control how we behave and how we respond. Our unity is supposed to inform our disagreement instead of our disagreement informing our unity. Unity then is more a matter of learning to disagree well rather than straining to agree on everything. How have you learnt to disagree well? Comment below ,

15.01.2022 No 5pm yesterday? No worries! The next episode on 'The Round Table' is up. Diving deeper into friendship, Pastor Nick and Jandee unpack expectations more, discuss some practicals around conflict, look at five red flags of a friendship and break down some markers of a biblical friendship. Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6MeIRoaYnlxsMQge2ddC0K... Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com//p/the-round-table/id1542122825 Simplecast - https://ya.simplecast.com/ See more

11.01.2022 Big love to the legends Becky & Dutch owners of Paradise Fortitude Valley for opening their doors to us last week as we did some filming for our grade 12's crossing over into our Young ad's community. Let's get out and support local this weekend

06.01.2022 Regos for 'Grateful' close at midnight TONIGHT Jump on and get your rego in now https://riverlife.brushfire.com/events/487992