The Record – 15 December 2024 – Box Hill Baptist Church

Order of Service

Call to Worship
Song: Joy to the World
Prayer of Gathering and Confession
Welcome & Community News
Song: Infant Lowly
Offering & Prayer
Bible Reading: Matthew 1:18-24
Song: Carry me to Bethlehem
Sermon: ‘Ordinary Joe or Holy Joe?’
Reflection & adding to our Christmas Tree
Hymn: Where do Christmas songs begin?
Pastoral prayers
Sung Benediction

Community News

+ A wonderful opportunity to gather over dinner and music last night at our Carols Dinner. Thanks to everybody who joined in and shared in preparing food, cleaning up, and especially making our many visitors feel welcome.

+ Many regular activities—Community Choir, Bible Study Groups, Prayer Link, English Language Group, Playgroup—have finished for the year. The Thursday Social Chat Group (11am-1pm) and the Thursday and Saturday Bakehouse will continue throughout the holiday period except on Boxing Day.

Food for Thought & Action

Shalailah Medhora asks, ‘Why More Australian Gen X Men are Finding Meaning in Organised Religion, ABC News, 6 December 2024.

Did you ever read ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’ (the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s)? The author, Hal Lindsey, has died but the ideas he popularized will continue to shape evangelicalism. Religion News Service, 5 December 2024.

Upcoming events at Box Hill

Christmas Day Service – 9:30am (finishing about 10.15am)

Last Breakfast service – 29 December @ 10am

Worship without Words – A Year in Reflection – 29 December @ 7pm

Regular Weekly Events

Monday
- 6pm-9pm. Social Table Tennis (upstairs of the Village Well)
Thursday:
- 11am to 1pm Social Chat: Coffee, tea, ping pong, gardening activities, simple English language, Tai Chi, friendship making. (Venue: upstairs above the Village Well.)
- 1.30-2.30pm Community Bakehouse food distribution (in the Barn.)
Friday
- 6pm-9pm. Social Table Tennis (upstairs of the Village Well)
Saturday
- 7:30-8:30am Community Bakehouse (in the Barn)

Small Groups @ BHBC

Box Hill Baptist Church runs a number of small groups which create opportunities to build friendships, study the Bible and other resources, pray and strengthen our spiritual journeys.

If you are interested in any of the groups below, feel welcome to contact the convenor, or speak to one of our pastors. (And if you’d like to be part of a group but these don’t work for you, come and speak to us and we’ll see if we can start something new!)

Explorers, & Bible Chats: Tuesdays, 7:30pm at the Village Well (5 Ellingworth Pde). The groups undertakes studies on a diverse range of topics including scripture, books, videos, and other resources.
KYB (Know Your Bible): Tuesdays fortnightly via Zoom. (Convenor: Helen Timms)