Hi all so due to, weather ☁️ we’ll be meeting at
– The Pimm’s…
– 45 Waipapa at 5pm

We’ll have warm drinks available and a few warm things in the oven to share…

Bring a plate/meal to share…

Really looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Advent begins today and we will be celebrating the lead up to Christmas. We remember that this is when God chose to come as a light into this dark world. Today we look at some Old Testament passages (which written hundreds of years prior to Christ coming as a baby) and we will see how Jesus Christ repesents the fulfilment of the promises God made.

This is a reminder that this weekend is the Harbour House Church camp at Living Springs, and there will be no service this Sunday.

We are continuing our series on “One Another” and we are joining in with International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on November 5th.

We would welcome any newcomers at 4.30pm in the Green Room (which is part of the community hall and shares a door with the Diamond Harbour Rugby Club). As usual, there is a creche for the under 4s and a Sunday school for the children and teens.

Today we have a guest speaker from Christchurch, Carolyn Chisholm. She knows a number of people in our congregation. Please join us at 4.30pm in the Green Room (next to the Diamond Harbour Rugby Club). As usual we will have a shared meal to follow starting about 6pm.

We have just finished our amazing series on John and this week we have, John Thwaites, a senior pastor from South City C3 visiting this week. From Sunday October 8th we will begin a series on “One Another”. looking at how we relate to each other. We are entitling each one as a posture – reflecting that we actively position ourselves to have each of the attributes in our series. This is not a striving but rather to posture ourselves to receive and have the attributes flow in our lives.

October 1st – John Thwaites

October 8th – Posture of Love

October 15th – Posture of Peace

October 22nd – Carolyn Chisholm – on diappointment

October 29th – Posture of Freedom and Unity

Hi all, just a reminder that we’ll be having our AGM following the meal on Sunday.

This week we’ll be having a family service around John 12:1-19 and Palm Sunday,

All Welcome

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²² The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. ²³ Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴ Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

²⁸ Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

²⁹ Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

³⁰ So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[a]”

³² Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ³⁶ But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹ At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[b] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. ⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

⁵² Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.