Order of Service
- Call to Worship
- Prayer for the Gathering
- Song – Take this moment Time and Space
- Welcome and Community News
- Offering
- Reading Matthew 6: 5-13 and Luke 11: 1-4
- Song – Lord let me see
- Sermon – Lord, teach us to pray
- A moment for Reflection
- Song – Make me a channel of Your peace
- Communion
- Prayers for Community
- Song – One More Step
- Benediction
Community News
+ Being the first Sunday of the month our offering will include non-perishable food items for the needy in our area.
+ Also, on this first Sunday of the month we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper.
+ As we commence a sermon series on The Lord’s Prayer this Sunday our hope is that it will energise our personal prayer as well as our prayer as a congregation. We could:
1-Make the Lord’s Prayer a framework for our regular prayer, taking each clause at a time and allowing those words to suggest people and issues we want to pray for.
2-Repeat the words slowly and meditatively allowing new insights and thoughts to arise.
3-Make each clause your ‘prayer of the day’—Sunday: Our Father, Monday: Hallowed be your Name, Tuesday: Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done, Wednesday: Give us this day our daily bread, Thursday: Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us, Friday Deliver us from evil, Saturday: The Kingdom, the power and the glory.+ Being the first Sunday of the month our offering will include non-perishable food items for the needy in our area.
+ With Eddie taking some leave in late January-early February, there are opportunities for you to help out with some small jobs to help things going – There’s a huge range of different things from watering the garden, putting out and returning the church bins, helping out with putting the worship presentation together, or sending out the regular emails. Plus, we’ll need someone to help out with cleaning over those few weeks. If you think might be able to help out, please speak to Eddie this week.
Food for Thought & Action
David Brooks, Opinion Columnist, writes about his spiritual journey in ‘The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be,’ New York Times (Gift article), 19 December 2024. [Thanks to Graeme Davison for this recommendation]
Sarah Kassim celebrates Christmas and New Year with Christian friends in Syria and discovers that Christians are experiencing a new freedom to express their faith in this new era. Aljazeera.
Vale Jimmy Carter, US President, Baptist church member, Sunday School teacher, volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, human rights campaigner… Jimmy Carter was once introduced as someone who used his Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness. When most would view the presidency as the pinnacle of achievement, Carter saw it as merely a platform to launch his most meaningful work – decades of humanitarian service, peace-making, and advocacy for the world’s most vulnerable people… Columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that his admiration for the former president came after traveling with him to Africa as part of a campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease. He told me of seeing patients in agony from Guinea worm, which looks like a long white thread of spaghetti and can grow three feet long under the skin. “Little 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children were screaming uncontrollably with pain,” Carter told me. “I cried, along with the children.” Kristof writes, “I admire a man who seeks out suffering children, weeps unashamedly with them — and then does his utmost to eradicate the parasite that torments them.” Another article and this one.
Upcoming events at Box Hill
Regular Weekly Events
- Monday
- 6pm-9pm. Social Table Tennis (upstairs of the Village Well)
- Thursday:
- 11am-1pm. Social Club (upstairs of the Village Well)
- 1:30-2:30pm Community Bakehouse (in the Barn)
- Friday
- 6pm-9pm. Social Table Tennis (upstairs of the Village Well)
- Saturday
- 7:30-8:30am Community Bakehouse (in the Barn)
- Sunday
- 9am-1pm Community Shed session (rear 470 Station St)
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)
Bible Readings for this week
First reading
Psalm
Second reading
Gospel
Worship Roster
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