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Inspiring Saints 2017
A warm welcome to all folk coming along this season. Your presence makes our time of celebration together all the richer! This season our Sunday services begin at 9:30am at Wyreena Community Arts centre on Hull Rd, Croydon. Followed by a fair-trade cuppa. Please bring along a mug and camping chair if you can! From…
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Meditations on the Trinity
Here three meditations from our Trinity Sunday service taken from the Lectionary readings. These can be used for personal devotions or set up as three stations in a group setting. We divided into groups and spent about ten minutes at each one. Trinity – God the Father Setting: Places to sit, a vase of greenery,…
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A simple All-age Pentecost celebration
Here is how we celebrated Pentecost this year over brunch. A lot of our ideas were taken from this wonderful resource. You can delegate different parts of this service to different people. Pentecost Celebration Decorations – candles, orange or red flowers, food. Introduction Today is a great Christian holiday. Today is Pentecost Sunday and on Pentecost Sunday…
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Dinner Bank
It is that time of year where it is very handy to have a meal ready to deliver to ourselves, our friends or family who are under the weather! We have a freezer ready to receive donations of meals and soups. If you can help out and donate a meal on a Sunday or at…
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A couple of communion meal liturgies
Communion – Jesus on the Road Share a time of recognizing Jesus walking beside you. Show the story of when Jesus appeared to his friends along the road to Emmaus. They were very upset and confused because he had died and so they didn’t recognize him at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmTWQn95xQ Let us say together: The Lord…
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Donations for Stable One
Over the next couple of Sundays in May we will collect donations for Stable One. A great thing to get kids involved in too! Here’s some stuff they need: Laundry Powder (sensitive for front loaders) Toothpaste Toothbrushes Soap Here’s some stuff it would be nice to have: Soap Travel Holder Comb Hairbrush Nail Clippers Deodorant (unisex)…
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Movie Fundraiser for East Africa Famine Appeal
Hi friends, across east and central Africa, tens of millions of people are facing severe food shortages, a lack of water, disease and current or impending famine. The United Nations says it’s the worst humanitarian emergency since World War 2 and they have received just 21 percent of the money needed to fight it. About…
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Sundays this Season
A warm welcome to all folk coming along this season. Your presence makes our time of celebration together all the richer! This season our Sunday services begin at 9:30am at Wyreena Community Arts centre on Hull Rd, Croydon. Followed by a fair-trade cuppa. Please bring along a mug and camping chair if you can! We continue to follow…
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Greening of the Cross Liturgy
Set up: Movie clip, slideshow, cross structure or drawn on ground with chalk or rocks, greenery or flowers near by. Play clip of Easter Resurrection appearances.’ Until 4min 43 sec. Greening of the Cross Jesus, the first of the sleepers has risen. Power is His to wake us all from darkness. To bring life into every…
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A simple Tenebrae Service
Set up: Table with communion meal and Christ candle, music player, handouts of readings with images throughout. Introduction This morning we are celebrating a medieval liturgy called the Tenebrae. Tenebrae is the Latin word for darkness or shadows and this service is a representation of the darkness that covered the world at the death of Jesus.…