Join us this weekend for our gathering in Ngunnawal Primary School Hall from 10:30am.

12 December

10:30am service at Ngunnawal School Hall.

The first 10 minutes of our gathering will include music playing and connecting with one another. Seating will be configured to allow households to sit together. Just as you might safely and warmly invite someone into your home you can invite others into your household  seating.

Please bring a bible, morning tea and drinks for yourself. Side doors will be open for ventilation so dress warmly if weather is cool.

There will be singing, celebration of thanksgiving and dedication for David F and recognition of young people at transition points in our discipleship pathway.

REMINDER: Maintain good hand hygiene / Keep your distance (1.5m) / Stay home if unwell and get tested / Check in for contact tracing / Masks required on school property

Zechariah – Hope Is For Real: This Sunday we are reading Zechariah 14 (last chapter!) with all-ages engaged together around God’s Word.

New Life @ Home: A livestream broadcast will be available from 9am on 12 December to conclude the Zechariah series.

There will be no broadcast on 19 December.

From 26 December the Summer Refresh series will be broadcast from 9am every Sunday until 6 February.

NewLife Kids@Home: With the resumption of physical gatherings a weekly program on the website will be paused. For the Christmas season there will be a Christmas Special which can be used in families at any time.

‘Simply Christmas’ Carols@NewLife – 19 December:

10:30am Carols service at School Hall with uplifting carol singing and readings from Luke’s Gospel for all ages and guests.

Christmas@NewLife – 25 December:

9am Christmas service at School Hall followed by morning tea at Smidt Home in Ngunnawal (address will be shared at Christmas Day service).

Summer@NewLife: Every Sunday of the summer school holidays (from 26 December) meeting in the church building in smaller gatherings of up to 50 people at a time (9am; 10:30am and adding other times if needed).

We are planning to be back in the Ngunnawal Primary School Hall from 30 January. Starting on  Christmas Day and continuing to Easter we are reading Luke’s Gospel.

Christmas
Luke 1-2 / Simply Christmas

January
Luke 3-9 / Simply Christ

Term 1
Luke 10-24 / Simply Christianity

TEAR USeful Gifts Shop: Printed catalogues will be available at Church to plan your purchases at upcoming gatherings.

You can order online using the button below:

Ministry Intern – Tara: Tara has reached the halfway point of her ministry internship with MTS. In this last month she has taken on as an internship ‘project’, implementation of the updated Breaking The Silence policy for safe ministry. She is doing an amazing job. But the most  significant thing is her quiet dedication to personal godliness and pastoral  discipleship of women. The internship is funded by individual financial supporters and a small scholarship from PCNSW METRO. New Life commends her to you for regular and one-off financial support. Our tax  deductible gifts will help her launch into 2022 without having to think too much about money.

Church Budget: Committee of Management draws your attention to this  financial report (below) on giving and expenses. A budget presentation will be made to New Life on Sunday morning. To update or commence your financial partnership with New Life, use the button below.

Community prayer concerns

• Christmas Tears: Please remember in prayer those who are feeling sadness of family breakdown, travel restrictions, bereavement, extended sickness, financial loss or empty anniversaries this Christmas.
• Church Finances: Please pray that while our congregation is drawn back together from being scattered in 2020-2021 that giving to New Life will be less scattered too.
• Tara P: Give thanks for God’s sustaining of Tara and her family through a 1st year ministry internship with all she has learned, grown in and given in service to those around her at New Life.

Contact Russell to share your concerns for prayer here: connect@discovernewlife.church

Grace and peace,
Russell