Welcome

Please browse through our web site. We hope you find something that will interest you. Whether you attend church regularly or not, we are here every week and we would be delighted to welcome you. Click here if you would like to contact us. We are located at the Cnr. Forest Way and Morgan Road, Belrose NSW 2085. Click here to see a map showing how to find us.

We would be delighted to welcome you to our contemporary family service.

Morning tea is served before the service. Holy Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday each month. Crèche and Kidzchurch operate during the service.

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January Mission of the Month

In July 2011, the United Nations declared regions of East Africa to be experiencing famine. Millions of people are still in urgent need of aid. There has been an influx of refugees into camps in Kenya and UnitingWorld’s partners have been involved in setting up extensions to one of the camps. UnitingWorld is also involved with relief food distribution in two of the most famine affected districts of Kenya. Please support this appeal.

A Message from Rev Ian Weeks

Anne & Ian Weeks

At the beginning of a new year, we inevitably want to look back at the year just gone, and reflect on it. There will be things to remember with great fondness and celebrate.

There will also be those things that we regret and cause us to say “I wish I could have that time over again. If only my mistakes could be wiped out. If only the messes could be undone. If only I could get another chance.” Jesus says, “You can!” Our gracious Heavenly Father is in the business of giving us fresh starts.

The scriptures remind us that there will come a day when everything will be made new – a new heaven and a new earth, where there will be no regrets, no heartache, no pain, no tears (Revelation 21). We look forward to that day!

In the mean time we can’t change the past, but God can heal us from the hurts and pain of our mistakes and failings – He offers us a fresh start through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection . When we put our trust in God, a whole new life begins for us; the past is really over and done with: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The Psalmist says, “He put a new song in my mouth” (Psalm 40:3). Last year probably had its difficult moments in your life. But, like the Psalmist, let a new song of worship and adoration to the Lord well up within your spirit as you launch out into this new year with Jesus. For what has been does not need to shape what will be!

At the outset of this new year, how wonderful it is to know we can always make a fresh start with our God!

Happy New Year!

A New Year’s Prayer
by Rev Cleland B. McAfee (19th C Presbyterian)

May God make your year a happy one.
Not by shielding you from all sorrow and pain,
but by strengthening you to bear it when it comes.
Not by making your path easy,
but by making you sturdy enough to tread any path,
not by taking hardships from you,
but by taking all cowardice and fear from your heart.
Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,
but by keeping your face bright even in the shadows.
Not by making your life always pleasant,
but by showing you where man and His cause need you most
and by making you zealous and concerned to be there and help.
Not by keeping you from battle,
but by bringing you off every field more than conquerors
through Him who loves us.

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A Covenant Prayer from Uniting In Worship

O Lord,
I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what you will,
Rank me with whom you will;
Put me to doing, put me to suffering;
Let me be employed for you
or laid aside for you;
Exalted for you or brought low for you;
Let me be full, let me be empty;
Let me have all things, let me have nothing;
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
You are mine and I am yours,
To the glory and praise of your name.
Amen.

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