update 2 april

Hey Church Family

Hope you are all doing well. We really do miss you all. Hopefully you are all managing to join with us on a Sunday through our House Church resources and also through our daily Diaspora devotion. And a big thank you to those of you who have been posting and commenting on Realm. It’s a great way to keep in touch with what God is doing amongst our church family. What follows is a quick update on a few different areas.

Regulations on Gatherings
In respect to our House Church gatherings we just wanted to take a moment to reiterate the impact of the most recent Government regulations. Essentially, House Church gatherings need to be limited to immediate family and housemates. We ask if you have been meeting with more than one other person outside of your immediate family and household that you no longer do this. The Government regulations now state that “public gatherings, excluding household members, have been reduced to a maximum of two people” which means you are able to invite one other person to your gathering. So, if you know of “a” person who is on their own please consider inviting them to your House Church on Sunday if appropriate.

We realise how difficult and restrictive these regulations can be but it is important that we honour them. In Judges 17:6, speaking of the people of Israel, it says “everyone did what was right in their own eyes.” Many of us may be tempted in this season to stretch these social distancing regulations and do what seems right to us, but as the people of God to do this is to be in rebellion to our ruling authorities and therefore outside of God’s order. Let’s do our best to be a people who are above reproach in this season church.

Vimeo Tips
If you are using your smart tv to access Red Door House Church, then open the Vimeo app on your tv and search directly in Vimeo the tag ‘redhousechurch’ to find our vids. Also you can find Diaspora the same way using the tag 'churchdiaspora'. Hope this helps!

Prayer
Our prayer meetings are now happening via Zoom. For more information on this please go to https://www.thereddoor.cc/prayerzoom/. Also, if you would like someone to pray with, you are now able to make a request through the Red Door app by opening the app, scrolling down and clicking on “Prayer Request” and completing the form.

Red Door Youth
A weekly video will soon be available called 'Sweet & Sour Nuggets' from our youth team, so keep an eye out for that.

Stay safe.