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We had a mid week worship service this week.
One of the ladies in our church put it together. She wanted to have a time of celebration, joy and thanksgiving. She wanted it to be bright and cheery, and so decorated the place with bright flowers and balloons. Plus there was food and lots of […]

I’m currently wagging one of the School of Ministry electives.
Not that the choices are bad this afternoon, but simply because my introvert scale is shot to pieces and if I have to talk to anybody else I’m likely to kill them.
SoM is an annual conference/networking thing put on by Whitley College in Melbourne for pastors […]

Another of our young people gave the sermon thing a try for the firt time last night. Kylie, one of the busiest people I know, somehow managed to study for and sit three exams as well as do her part time jobs and prepare a sermon. She’s nuts!
Anyway, she had lots of great things to […]

Our Urban Summer Mission kicks off tomorrow with some team stuff over the weekend and then a series of projects during the week. Here’s a little of what we’ll be doing:
A team will be going into Eastern Emergency Relief. EER is a volunteer run agency that helps people in need in our community. January if […]

We came to the end of our evening services for the year on Sunday night.
Looking back, there have been many challenges that we have faced as a community, plus numerous things that individuals and families have had to deal with. But there have also been many times to celebrate and rejoice. Through all of them though, God […]

About this time each year, I take some time to put some serious thought and prayer into the sorts of themes that I want to cover in 2007. Some of these are for me personally, others are for my community.
I ask people what they would like to explore, what they think I should be working […]

I went to three worship services on the weekend, and in everyone there was wild clapping and cheering.
The first service was a wedding. The bride looked beautiful in her dress, and the groom looked great in his too! (He wore a kilt). It was an outside wedding, held at Kellybrook Winery in the Yarra Valley. […]

Chris and Jodie MacCartney joined us on Sunday to share a little bit about what is instore for them on the next part of their journey.
Chris grew up in our church and Jodie came here after they got married. They were sent from here to do pastral work at Knox and during that time felt […]

Two weeks ago I had a speaking gig in our morning service and with the passage of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) as my subject.
Having such a well known story to speak on left me feeling a bit flat - what possibly could I say that hadn’t been said before? Probably nothing, but I knew […]

Mate! It’s busy at the moment, so my apologies for the lack of stuff on the blog…not particulalry excellent but that’s the way it is!
Dan had his final night with us last Sunday and gave the second part of his excellence series. This was more of a ‘how to’ type message and regardless of how […]