Saturday July 19th…

8am for the Men in the Hall (for breakfast)

10:30am for the Ladies in the Upper Room (for morning tea)…

Come and join us!

After lunch together on Sunday June 28th, we’re going to share life together for a while in a workshop called ‘Sharing life, sharing the gospel’. The aim of the workshop is to help us understand how we may best share the gospel (the good news about the Lord Jesus) with those we meet and mix with in an ‘everyday’ kind of way.

This will be the first of three workshops along this theme during 2015. Come and join us!

Our next Men’s Fellowship is on June 20th at 8am in the Upper Room. All men welcome.  Hearty breakfast ($5 per head) and good spiritual food included!

Join us as we meet to bring all of our needs to the One whose hand moves the world!

Saturday June 7th from 10am in the Upper Room. All are welcome! Come when you can, leave when you must.

After lunch together on Sunday May 24th, we’re going to share life together for a while in a workshop called ‘Sharing life, sharing the gospel’. The aim of the workshop is to help us understand how we may best share the gospel (the good news about the Lord Jesus) with those we meet and mix with in an ‘everyday’ kind of way.

Can’t make it? The workshop will be repeated after our June 28th lunch.

This will be the first of three workshops along this theme during 2015. Come and join us!

 Saturday May 16th..

8am for the Men in the Hall (for breakfast)…

10:30am for the Ladies in the Upper Room (for morning tea)…

Come and join us!

On Sunday April 26th, 2015, at our 10:30am service,  we will pause to remember the important occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.  Our readings, hymns and songs, prayers and message will follow all this theme. Join us as we  give thanks to God for His protecting hand in times of war. Shared lunch will follow in the hall.

Our Bible Study (Home) Groups don’t normally meet during the school holidays, but we are this week!

Join us in the Upper Room (meeting room off our Hall) at 7:30pm for a brief look at the letter of Jude. All are welcome!

The story is told that there was once a son of a wealthy family who was about to graduate from high school. It was the custom in this affluent neighbourhood for the parents to give their graduating children a car, but in this instance – the father – on the eve of the boy’s graduation – handed his son a gift wrapped Bible. The boy was so angry that he threw the Bible down and stormed out of the house and vowed never to speak to his father again. Not long after, the news of his father’s death brought the boy home again. As he sat one night going through his father’s possessions that he was to inherit, he came across the Bible his father had given him. He brushed away the dust and opened it to find a cheque, dated the day of his graduation – for the exact amount of the car he had told his father he would have loved to own.

That story perhaps highlights how many people treat God. The world constantly bombards us with the thought that, ‘if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t.’ So the result is that many are suspicious of anyone who promises anything. We view them and their words with the thought ‘what and where’s the catch?’ The good news of Easter Sunday is that Jesus is alive! And there is no catch! When they went to His tomb – they found nothing. Never has there been a more important discovery of nothing!

The story is also told that an eight year old downs syndrome Sunday school boy was given, with the rest of his class, a special project to complete for Easter. The teacher gave each child a plastic “egg” (the kind that pantyhose used to come in) and explained that they were to find a symbol for new life and put it into the egg. A couple of weeks later, the eggs were opened and in the first was a pretty flower; in the next a butterfly, while green grass was in a third. In another was a rock, which prompted laughter, then finally the last egg was opened with nothing inside. “That’s stupid,” said one child, ‘someone didn’t do it right!’ The teacher felt a tug on his shirt. It was the downs syndrome boy, who whispered, “That’s mine, and I did do right! It’s empty, ‘cause the tomb was empty.” (He was right – see Luke 24:3)

The good news of Easter is too good to simply let pass by – because if the tomb of Jesus was empty and if He is alive as He said He would be, then the only ‘catch’ will apply to those who will not come in faith and bow the knee to Him.

Join us on Easter Sunday at 10:30am!

When the rescue of miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell was unfolding in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, back in May 2006, the whole world held their breath! After having been given up for dead because of the thick rock that kept the men from freedom, in the course of time, they were rescued from their captivity and the watching world sighed with relief! Throughout the whole ordeal and after, tribute was rightly paid to the rescuers who toiled tirelessly to reach the men in extreme circumstances and at great risk to themselves.

The mine rescue story reminds us of another rescue story, an even better one. The Bible tells us that ‘all men have sinned’ (Romans 3:23) and that because of this we are unable to save ourselves. All of us are ‘trapped’ in the cage of our own sinful natures and all are in need of a Rescuer. Jesus Christ is that Rescuer. At great cost to Himself and to rescue His people, He died upon a cross and was buried. Then to prove that His work was sufficient and accepted by God, and that He was and is the Son of God, He was raised from the grave after three days.

We all need to be rescued. At Easter we are reminded that only Jesus Christ can do this completely. Through faith in Him, all who believe are granted full and free salvation. He said, ‘If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed’. (John 8:36). Seek Him. Great joy will follow your rescue too.

Join us this Easter! Good Friday 9:30am, Easter Sunday 10:30am. All welcome!