| Sunday, 27 November 2011 | |
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O Come, O Come Immanuel (Alan Jamieson) |
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Korean Faith Community (Kyeng Young Kim) |
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Pizza Church (Chris Barus) |
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Do You Hear What I Hear? (Ants Watt) |
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Gerald Tisch |
WELCOME
Gidday.
Welcome to this Baptism Sunday. We are stoked to celebrate with Alley Mander who was baptised last Sunday, Colin Hansen, Lorima Malo and James Hill who were baptised during the Tuesday Christian Fellowship gathering, and Xiao Li, Alice McLean, and Samantha Gavin who are being baptised today.
It’s been great to be meeting lots of new folks around the place. If you are new to Spreydon and would like to know more of what we are about and what makes us tick, then Discovery is for you. It’s being held on Thursday December 8, 7.30pm at 57 Rydal Street, Hoon Hay. Please contact me on dbates@spreydon.org.nz if you want to come.
Only one week to go before the Grotto starts setting up in the Auditorium for another year! Thanks to all of you who have volunteered so far to help with all the bits and pieces for that. The café is also in need of extra pairs of hands, as it’s open all the hours of the Grotto, so please sign up for that as well at the Grotto table in the foyer. It’s a lot of fun serving as part of a team during this time, and great to be able to provide hospitality and care for the thousands who will visit our church buildings this Christmas.
Wearing my local hat, the Addington Primary School fair is this Friday December 2, 5-7 pm. The Spreydonites involved in the Addington neighbourhood community are working closely with the school to run the fair, so please come down and support the fundraising for a playground. You can get into the school via entrances on Brougham or Simeon Streets.
Only 28 sleeps until Christmas. Woohoo!
Dave
PRAYER
For emergency prayer needs phone Les Yetman 942 1172. He will alert the prayer chain to your need.
Spreydon Underground Prayer Meeting. Join us faith on Monday December 5, 7.30pm at 235 Lyttelton St, cnr Cobham and Lyttelton Sts to pray for Christians around the world, who are persecuted for their. The next prayer meeting after that will be in February 2012. If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter, please email tonykan@xtra.co.nz.
LIFE TOGETHER
Mercy Basket. Our shelves are starting to look bare as we put together Christmas parcels. We need: pasta sauces, muesli bars, tins of fruit & veges, rice risotto and toilet rolls. Thank you for helping us make Christmas special for our struggling families.
Congratulations to Nelida Pennington and David Baird who were married last week.
URGENT: Help needed with Christmas decorations. If you are able to help put up Christmas decorations and lights at Church tomorrow please meet Donna in the foyer anytime after 9.30am. Phone Donna 980 7712 with enquiries.
Spreydon multi-ethnic lunch (SMEL) today, 12.45pm at Ken & Maewyn's garden property, 7 Rose St, Hoon Hay. Please bring your family and friends and some ethnic food to share. Contact Ken & Maewyn 338 8078 or kenmoore@paradise.net.nz for more info.
Westmorland-Cracroft neighbourhood potluck lunch today at 1pm at 4 Thirlmere Lane, Westmorland. An opportunity to meet and chat with other Spreydonites in our area, and for an update on local happenings. For more info contact Janelle janellebutcher@xtra.co.nz or Rose rosemary.france@xtra.co.nz.
The library will be closed from Monday December 5, during the Christmas Grotto and re-open in January. You may return books to the Info Centre on Sundays. We are looking for people to assist on Sunday mornings next year between the 9 and 11am services. Contact Mike or Sue 981-5049.
Christmas Eve Kids’ Choir! All school-aged children are invited to join the Christmas Eve choir to sing at the 5&7pm services. Practices will be 10am-12pm on December 10 and 17.
Gospel Choir is on in the Cobham Street Hall from 7-8pm this Monday. We are practicing for the 9pm Christmas Eve service. All welcome! Contact is Anna Whitaker, annawhitaker23@gmail.com.
COMMUNITY MINISTRY
Christmas Grotto. Please talk with people at the sign up boards or contact Linda 960 6329, 021 960 653 or rahills@paradise.net.nz if you can help in any of these ways:
1.Entertainment for the queues.
2.An extra freezer for the café during Grotto time.
4.Baking for the rest homes: slices, biscuits, shortbread, Christmas cakes and mini Christmas pies.
5.People to help welcome those coming to the Grotto, chat with them and keep an eye on everything inside. Please sign up in the foyer today.
GLOBAL MISSION
A newsletter from Vijaya Chowdhuri is available today in the foyer.
OTHER
Leadership Network Reinvention Conference will be taking place this week Tuesday November 29 – Thursday December 1 at Spreydon Baptist Church, with approximately 20 pastors from different churches around the country. We would really appreciate you making them feel welcome and keeping Murray and the team in your prayers.
Healthy Christchurch laughing at Stress seminars. Horticultural Hall, South Hagley Park, Monday November 28, 12 noon to 1.45 pm and Tuesday November 29, 10 – 11.45am. Christchurch Netball Centre, Hagley Avenue, Friday December 2, 1.30 to 3.15 p.m. To register contact pauline@partnershiphealth.org.nz or 375 7006 with your name and phone number and the session you’d like to attend. Book early to avoid disappointment.
Christmas Concert & Cathedral Fundraiser. The Canterbury Plainsmen and Friends invite you to a Christmas Concert 7.30pm Saturday December 10 at La Vida Centre, 34 Hansons Lane, Upper Riccarton. Cost $20 adult, $15 students & Senior Citizens. Contact Dave Adamson 389 1376 or Rudi Jansen 384 4322.
For sale - great Christmas gifts. ‘I saw love today’ is an anthology of spiritual writing about love and life by 40 submitters from around NZ, including Joan Davidson and Jo van den Bogaert. Available today at Info Centre, $20 each, or see Joan or Jo for more details.
GLOBAL MISSION
Diane Goodman
Bible translation, Chad
“It's good to be in Christchurch at this beautiful time of the year despite the occasional shake. I'm enjoying belonging to a life group. It's great to get to know more people.
Right now it's harvest time in Chad. Please pray for good returns from all their work in the fields.
Please pray also for the shipment of the Kenga New Testaments from Korea to Cameroon and then by road to Chad. The costs of sending one NT were so high the Kenga has been delayed (3-6 months) so that three NTs can go together.
Praise the Lord that I am getting excellent recovery time and encouraging words as I prepare for a new project amongst an unreached people group, the Barma. I will have an information evening on Monday February 13 in the cafe. I would love to get in touch with new supporters for this next part of my life overseas.”
COMMUNITY MINISTRY
Christmas Grotto
Once again we have an amazing opportunity to meet many people from the community, make them feel welcome at our church and show them what an amazing bunch of people we are at Spreydon.
Thank God for - the safe arrival of all our orders from overseas
- the help to make this Grotto possible
- the many people signing up to help
Pray for - the race to get the new sets built and finished in time
- safety for everyone during setup, pack up, and the running of Grotto
- the team through the 2 weeks of the Grotto running
- enough people to sign up to help welcome people in the Grotto and to serve the rest homes
- God to touch the people who come to the Grotto and those who help
Please check the boards in the foyer and see where you may be able to help us.
Thanks
Linda and the Grotto team
