Wednesday 22 April 2009

Sunday 26th April & 3rd May

Service times for the next two Sundays:

April 26th - Divine Service begins 11.00am

May 3rd - Divine Service begins 8.30am

God's peace,
Pastor Matt

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Service for Holy Week


Please join us this week as we are served by God's word and Holy Sacrament, witnessing again the love of the Father in life, death and resurrection of His Son, our Lord Jesus.

Maundy Thursday - Service with Communion, beginning 5.30pm
Good Friday - Service of the Word, beginning 8.30am
Easter Sunday - Divine Service celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord, beginning 11.00am

Sunday's service will include the resurrection of three little ones through holy baptism - Ananiya, Mechac and Koleta Dieudonne. Service will be followed by a shared lunch and an ongoing Easter celebration - African style! Please join us.

God's peace,
Pastor Matt

Friday 3 April 2009

For Sunday 5th April - 8.30am

I'm sorry I didn't post anything last week and am only just getting to it on Friday this week. I have to say that the last couple of weeks have been fairly crazy, especially last week with the arrival of one of our Congolese member's children from Africa. It's been a wonderful experience to witness this family being reunited and praising God for His grace and mercy. I hope to post some photos here in the next few days.

I should also say that we are getting pretty close to putting in our application to the City Council to obtain a planning permit for our new church on Poplar Avenue. Just this week we received the concept plans from the draftsman and we are all delighted with the amazing result he has achieved. These plans will be 'revealed' on Sunday following service.

In the meantime, we're cleaning up the new block of land in Poplar Avenue on Saturday. If you can be there for an hour or so from 9am it would be a great help.

Now to the purpose of this post! Service this Sunday will begin at 8.30am and will include the joy of two baptisms - Benjamin O'Connell and his cousin, Stephanie Dawes.

Please remember to turn your clocks back an hour for the end of Daylight Savings on Saturday night.

God's peace,
Pastor Matt