Community News
This Sunday 23 February 2025
+ The Last Breakfast at 10am led by Eddie Chapman. Breakfast together with worship on the side. Please bring food to share with others.
+ The monthly quiet and short service—‘Worship Beyond Words’—takes place in the church at 7pm.
Next Sunday 2 March 2025 at 10am
+ Our monthly Communion Service.
+ Worship Leader: Lorraine Mitchell; Preacher: Geoff Pound.
+ Scripture: Mark 11: 1-11.
+ Being the first Sunday of the month our offering will include non-perishable food items for the needy in our area.
This Week
Tuesday
Normally the Box Hill Community Choir meets each Tuesday morning but this Tuesday and the next, the choir won’t be meeting as the leaders are on holiday.
7.15pm Coffee/tea for a 7.30pm start: Bible & Chat in the Village Well. Join us for the new Lenten series as we look at The Last Week of Jesus. This week we’ll focus on Sunday as described in Mark 11: 1-11.
Wednesday
10am-3pm The Community Shed for women and men to do general woodwork. The Shed is located behind the Box Hill Community Arts Centre, 470 Station St, Box Hill. Contact Glenn Campbell for more details.
8pm: Prayer Link: Some moments via Zoom to pray together. Here is the link.
Thursday
10am-12 midday The English Language Group is held in the Barn. It runs from 10am to 12 midday and includes morning tea. Gold coin donation. Convenor: Lynne Dyer.
11am-1pm upstairs in the Village Well: Social Chat Group—basic English language and Aussie culture, table tennis, Tai Chi, tea/coffee, friendship-making.
1.30pm-2.30pm Bakehouse in the Barn: Saving bread, fruit and vegetables from waste by giving food to those wanting to ease their weekly budget.
Friday
10am-11.30am A Playgroup in the Barn for children, 0-4 years of age and their parents, grandparents and carers.
Saturday 7.30am-8.30am Bakehouse in the Barn.
Notices and News
+ Our next Church Member’s Meeting will follow the service on 2 March. The main items on the agenda will be discussion on the proposed new BHBC constitution and a recommendation that BHBC joins the Open Baptists Association. The draft constitution and information about the proposal to join the Open Baptists has been sent out this week to church members. Let us know if this email didn’t reach you.
+ We commence a new Lenten series on Sunday 2 March entitled ‘The Last Week’. Over the next seven weeks we’ll be taking a closer look at the events of that first ‘Holy Week’ which was the last week in the earthly life of Jesus. We’ll be focusing each Sunday and on the preceding Tuesday at the Bible & Chat group, on the readings in Mark’s Gospel suggested by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in their book, The Last Week. This is a good resource for people wanting to go deeper.
+ Check out the current worship roster at this link.
+ As we welcome Eddie back on deck this week, we express grateful thanks to those who picked up different tasks in his absence.
+ Box Hill Baptist joins with many churches in the City of Whitehorse (under the banner of ‘Whitehorse Churches Care’) to do things like running a Community Space at the Forest Hill Chase. Read about the many events of the WCC, including the farewell to Kerryn Pell and a welcome to Karen Breen (new coordinator at the Chase).
+ If you’d like to know more about any of the basic steps in following Jesus such as believing, baptism, church membership or if you’re curious to know how things happen in a Baptist church, do have a chat with Eddie or Geoff.
+ The Box Hill Community Choir will be performing in the Box Hill Mall on Tuesday March 18 between 10am and 11am. Plan to come to support them, enjoy the music and have coffee together afterwards.
Food for Thought, Prayer & Action
+ Check out the latest articles at the Centre for Public Christianity (CPX)—about Conclave, Death, anti-Semitism, Tim Winton’s lecture and more—without hitting a paywall.
+ The BUV website has posts about the latest stories from around the churches, forthcoming events, resources and training opportunities and more.
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!)
· Bible & Chat: Currently each Tuesday, 7:15pm for 7.30pm start at the Village Well (5 Ellingworth Pde). The group normally reflects on a Scripture passage for the following Sunday service. Convenor: Geoff Pound
· KYB (Know Your Bible): Tuesdays fortnightly via Zoom. (Convenor: Helen Timms)
· A Small Group meets in the Gallery on the first and third Thursday of the month from 7.30pm-9pm. Convenor: Andy McCulloch.
· The Explorers Group is preparing for a restart in early May for people wanting to explore the Christian faith for the first time or take a refresher. This will be a 12-part series. Ask Eddie Chapman for more details.
Worship Roster
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