National Day of Mourning

On Sunday we will be observing the National Day of Mourning for the Bushfire victims as part of our normal Sunday church meeting. It is an opportunity to 'honour those who have lost their lives, support those who have suffered and recognise the work of our emergency services.' There will be an opportunity to write in the national Bushfire Message Book and we will be ringing the bells for two minutes at 11am like churches across the nation. Our prayers will be particularly focussed on the issues to do with the bushfire situation. Chris.

Connect 09 - Big Day In

Yesterday Orion was able to get the Australian Christian Channel up and running for the Connect09 'Big Day In'. Church will start at the normal time of 9.30am and along with thousands of others across the city we will watch the live broadcast from 10.50am.

Office refurbishment on Friday

Tomorrow (Fri, 6 Feb) we will be painting the two offices and moving new furniture in. It would be great if you could help out. We will be there from a bit before 9am.

Growth Groups sign-ups

The sign-up for our Growth Groups started last Sunday and goes over the next two Sundays. These are a great way to learn more about what it means to be Christian and get to know other people at church. There is even a group for people just wanting to find out more about Jesus.

Christmas at Summer Hill Church

Christmas is a very special time for us and so we have some special events. On Christmas Eve (24th) we have Christmas for Kids at 6.30pm, Midnight Christmas at 11pm and Christmas Day (25th) we have our Christmas Celebration at 9.30am. Look forward to seeing you there.

Christmas Traditions - all ready to go for tonight (Wed 19th Nov)

The upper meeting room is all set up for the 'Christmas Traditions' evening. Christine Jensen will be speaking about Christmas traditions in family life and the significance of Jesus. It starts at 7pm and looks as though it is going to be a great night.

Transfer your keyboard skills over to the organ!

Brian Leung is organising some classes on the organ where the idea is to help people who can already play piano 'transfer' their skills over to our organ. The teacher of the classes is an excellent organist who is very keen to help people make this transition. If you are interested at all catch up with Brian.

Music Time free for your first visit

Our absolutely fantastic Music Time program is free when you visit for the first time. It meets on Mondays from 10:30-11am and is for carers and preschool children 0-5 years old.

SPLASH starts on Friday

SPLASH, our kids club for school years 3-6 starts up again this Friday 6.30-8pm. It's going to be heaps of fun so it would be great to see you there.

Daylight Saving starts on Sunday October 5th

Daylight saving is kicking in and you need to put your clocks forward one hour before going to bed on Saturday 4th October. If you don't believe me check out the official website.

Splash Family BBQ & Movie night

Everyone and anyone is invited to the BBQ and movie night we are having this Friday night (19th Sep). We will be starting a bit early at 6pm. Bring $4 per person for food. The movie is a really fun one called 'The Emperors New Groove'. Look forward to seeing you there.

Reaching the next generation

A couple of weeks ago I was at the Ministry Training and Development conference and Mark Driscoll gave his thoughts on what we need to do to help reach the next generation. He ended up talking about our diocese in general and some of the things we do in it. Here is one of the two talks he gave:

Music TIme starts on Monday (28th)

Our Music Time groups starts up again this Monday at 10.30am. If you have a preschool child and want to do something really valuable with them please come along. Your first visit is free.Check out our website for more information.

SPLASH is back

Just a reminder that our group for kids in school years 3-6 has started up again on Friday nights from 6.30-8pm.

Urban Mission Team?

Just thinking it would be cool to have a group of us from church go on mission together somewhere - maybe somewhere urban and multi-ethnic. Any thoughts about the idea? Something a bit like a beach mission team.

Connect09 Prayer Day

On Sunday we will be praying for our local community that they might hear the gospel message and welcome it.

We will be joining hundreds of other churches who are doing the same thing as part of Connect09!

Wanted: computers

At the moment our office has two computers:

1. A Dell Dimension 8200, Pentium 4 - 2.8GHz, 384 MB RAM running Windows XP Professional and:

2. A Windows machine running at 450 Mhz with 255MB RAM.

We are looking to update these with newer machines. Let me know if you have something that might be suitable. NB We also run Mac based things as well, so anything along those lines are also welcome.

Men's Friday Fellowship - Friday, 2 May. 8-9pm

Conflict resolution is a modern term – but the Bible has much to say about this. Acts 14:21-15:21 tells us how conflict in the early Church was resolved. This passage has much to say to the modern Church and the modern world. We will be looking at this passage as well as watching  two short videos produced for African Enterprise, giving an insight into how God is working in Africa today.

Open Week!

Our church Open Week is coming up next week with a bunch of great things to come to. We really want to introduce you to Jesus - so when you come along expect to hear something about him. Click on the image for a larer version.

Visit this January

If you are looking to visit a church this January please come along one Sunday morning, it would be great to see you.