For Sunday 30th August - 11am

This Sunday we will celebrate Refugee and Migrant Sunday as we give thanks to God for bringing us together from around the world and uniting us in Christ as one family. We will take the opportunity to acknowledge our diverse roots and to pray particularly for the countrymen and women of our members who are still suffering as refugees around the world.

This Sunday will also be a very significant celebration for our congregation as two teenagers receive the washing of renewal in Holy Baptism, and as they are joined with another six young people to receive first communion. Please pray for Safari and Shukuru, along with Ater, Sarah, Baranabas, Kamandula, Ntole and Mwamini.

Please join us for a celebratory luncheon after the service.

God's peace,
Pastor Matt

For Sunday 23rd August - 11am

Divine service this week will begin at 11am.

I'm preaching on the epistle reading from Ephesians 6:10-20 as we consider the implications of our call to spiritual warfare. One word comes up again and again as St Paul points to the tactics we are to utilise in this war - stand!

God's peace,
Pastor Matt

For Sunday 16th August - 8.30am

So often we act as though the greatest wisdom in life consists in milking every last scrap of self indulgent pleasure out of our days, with little regard for how it impacts us more deeply. Even in the church people often succumb to the false notion that what they do with their bodies, for example, has little impact on their spiritual well being. Such an approach to life often suggests that wisdom lies in juggling daily 'pleasures' with spiritual 'duties'.

Who'd have thought that true wisdom would come in ordering our whole lives according to the word of God and the praises of His goodness in our Lord Jesus?

As the psalmist (and the writer of Proverbs) says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. True wisdom comes through a knowledge of our standing before God as sinners, utterly dependent on His grace and mercy in Christ.

This week I'll be preaching on Ephesians 5:15-20 where St Paul calls us to "Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."

Service will begin at 8.30am.

God's peace,
Pastor Matt

For Sunday 9th August - 11am

This week worship will begin at 11am and will be followed by a congregational lunch.

We will witness new birth by water and the Word as Hugo receives the washing of regeneration.

The readings are:
2 Samuel 18:5-9,15,31-33 The death of David's son Absalom
Ephesians 4:25 - 5:2 Be imitators of God
1 Kings 19:4-8 Elijah fed by God

God's peace,
Pastor Matt