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?Af Family Church Waterside

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

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

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 tha…

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 …

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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

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

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 t…

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

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

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?Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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

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

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

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.Af Family Church Waterside

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.Af Family Church Waterside

Following on from the previous weeks messages on the series Jesus Saves, Dan speaks about 'Reconciliation'. We can be reconciled to each other, but more importantly we can only be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ who saves us.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul continues the series about Soteriology, the study of our salvation though Jesus Christ. This week he speaks about 'Justification'. We are justified before God through the divine exchange that happened at the cross of Jesus. Nothing we can do makes any difference to our right standing before God....Ps Paul explains this in detail to enable u…

Ps Paul begins the new series on the doctrine of salvation (Soteriology) by exploring how forgiveness by God is key to our salvation and living in the spiritual freedom that God intends for us.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul explores how we all follow something or someone in life but that the best decision we can ever make is to choose to follow Jesus - includes testimonies from Miriam and Pete on why they have made this decision.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul completes the series on Christology, exploring how Jesus desires to be our Lord as well as our Saviour on our journey of discipleship, by us submitting our will and desires to His lordship.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Steu speaks about how Jesus perfectly fulfilled the office of Prophet, Priest and King, both when He walked on Earth and now, as our risen and exalted Saviour. As the perfect prophet, He fully represents God to people; as the great High Priest, He represents people to God, having opened the way for all who believe to enter God's presence; and as…

Dan Webb continues the series on Christology, exploring the truth of how Jesus is exalted (lifted up) to His rightful place throughout scripture and the work of the cross and what this means for our daily walk with Him.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul continues the series on Christology, exploring the truth of Jesus' incarnation, impeccability and death and what these mean for our daily relationship with God.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul continues the series on Christology, exploring the deity and humanity of Jesus and what this means for our relationship with Him.Af Family Church Waterside

Today, Pastor Paul begins to unpack the meaning behind Christology - that aspect of our faith relating to the person, nature and work of Jesus Christ. This is all part of our overall theme of being deeply rooted. Ps Paul mentions how the word Christology comes from two words “Christ,” referring to Jesus, and “-ology,” meaning "the study of", ie the…

Ps Paul explores the principles of seeing ourselves on a lifelong journey of discipleship and that God's agenda for us is to be fully rooted in Him, living fruitful lives where we become more and more Christlike.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Andy speaks about the Mission, Vision and Strategy for Family Church for the forthcoming year of 2024. The Mission is summed up on three words: Reach; Grow and Empower. The Vision is based around ten areas: Congregations; Services; Communities; Impact; Discipleship; Empowered; Leaders; Young People; Governance and Premises. Pastor Andy details e…

Ps Paul explores how it is God's desire to build His church (house) and based on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah and the building of the temple/tabernacle, how He has called us all to be involved in providing financially for the building of His house.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul explores how it had always been God's master plan to send his son Jesus to become 'God With Us', and how the gifts of the magi expressed who He truly was, as our king (to bring restoration), high priest (to bring reconciliation) and saviour (to bring redemption.Af Family Church Waterside

Ps Paul concludes the series on prayer, by exploring the scriptural and practical principles of spiritual warfare and how we apply these to our prayer lives.Af Family Church Waterside

Pastor Wendy continues in the series House of Prayer, this week speaking about praying for praying for the sick and oppressed. She talks about how Jesus often prayed for others, for both sickness and often those who were downtrodden or oppressed and how the results were life changing and amazing!Af Family Church Waterside

Pastor Steu continues the series House of Prayer, this week speaking about how we pray for other people apart from ourselves.Af Family Church Waterside

Steve carries on the series 'House of prayer' this week. He speaks about different types of prayer available to us as we communicate with our Lord.Af Family Church Waterside

Having the privilege of the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and being able to pray the perfect prayer makes praying incredibly powerful. Pastor Paul continues the series House of Prayer this week speaking about Prayer Languages. The Lord has given us the ability to communicate to Him in our own mother tongue and also to pray in ano…

Tanya Allen continues the series on prayer, by exploring scriptural and practical principles of praying with faith and expectation, including many testimonies of answered prayer from her own life.Af Family Church Waterside