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FAVOURITES OVERVIEWThe Bible is packed with verses, stories and teachings that transform lives. Many of us have passages which have impacted our lives in significant ways, or which speak to us powerfully in the moments we most need it.Each week in January, we’ll be hearing from different members of our staff and church community as they share about their favourite Bible passage and why it means so much to them. Join us for our third week of our ‘Favourites’ Series, with Jonathan Stark helping us better understand God’s heart and reflect on our own.SERMON SERIES‘Favourites’ Series (Week 3/5)SCRIPTUREMark 9:33-37

FAVOURITES OVERVIEWThe Bible is packed with verses, stories and teachings that transform lives.Many of us have passages which have impacted our lives in significant ways, or which speak to us powerfully in the moments we most need it.Each week in January, we’ll be hearing from different members of our staff and church community as they share about their favourite Bible passage and why it means so much to them. Join us for our second week of our ‘Favourites’ Series, with Jason Brown helping us better understand God’s heart and reflect on our own.  SERMON SERIES‘Favourites’ Series (Week 2/5)  SCRIPTUREExodus 1-2:10

FAVOURITES OVERVIEWThe Bible is packed with verses, stories and teachings that transform lives.Many of us have passages which have impacted our lives in significant ways, or which speak to us powerfully in the moments we most need it.Each week in January, we’ll be hearing from different members of our staff and church community as they share about their favourite Bible passage and why it means so much to them. Join us for our first week of our ‘Favourites’ Series, with Chris Danes helping us better understand God’s heart and reflect on our own. SERMON SERIES‘Favourites’ Series (Week 1/5) SCRIPTUREPsalm 37

CHRISTMAS: UNEXPECTED WONDER We'd love you to join us at one of our services to celebrate in your language! We'll celebrate Jesus' birth through carols, prayer, content for kids, and a special Christmas message.Note: Our English Christmas Day service is identical to our Christmas Eve service.If you can't make it onsite, you can stream our English, Cantonese and Mandarin services via the links below.

OverviewGod is always doing unexpected and amazing things. He shows up in surprising ways and displays his love for humanity through wondrous means.There was nothing more wondrous and unexpected than God showing up in human history, as a baby born in a stable, to young and poor parents. Yet it changed everything - and still does.Join us this Christmas as we reflect on the unexpected wonder of Jesus' birth, and his transformative power today. Service Details‘Carols Service 2022’ ScriptureLuke 2

DARE YOU TO MOVE SERIES OVERVIEWSomeone finally asks us about our faith in Jesus….and we freeze.We stumble over our words or worry that we’re saying something wrong or that we don’t know the right answer to give.Why is that? How can we be ready and willing to talk about Jesus and our journey with him whenever the opportunity arises?Join us for the final week of the Dare You to Move series, as Chris Danes helps us think through how we best give an answer for the hope that we have.SERMON SERIESDare You to Move SeriesSCRIPTUREMatthew 5:14-16

GOD CARES ABOUT SERIES OVERVIEWOn certain Sundays throughout the year, we take the opportunity to spend some timeexploring a specific issue or topic which we sense God wants us to pay attention to.Something we believe he cares deeply about.Join us this week as we explore how the bible speaks about the poor – what does it sayabout how God views those in poverty, and what response does he require from thosewho follow him?SERMON SERIESGod cares about seriesSCRIPTURELuke 4:16-21

DARE YOU TO MOVE SERIES OVERVIEWWe love knowing that God cared enough about us to send Jesus with a message of love and a mission of sacrifice to bring us into his family. We also know that God’s heart beats not just for those who love him, but for those who don’t know him yet. Does our heart beat for them too? Join us for our first week of our Dare You to Move series, with Mike Riddell helping us better understand God’s heart and reflect on our own. SERMON SERIES‘Dare You to Move’ Series (Week 1/3) SCRIPTURELuke 15:1-31 

THE GOOD PLACE SERIES OVERVIEWIf Heaven is for real, how does that impact us here and now? How should it shape our choices, our values, our time, or our relationship with Jesus? Join us this week as Chris Danes concludes our series, The Good Place, by looking at how Heaven can (and should) reveal itself on earth. SERMON SERIES‘The Good Place’ Series (Week 3/3)SCRIPTURE

THE GOOD PLACE SERIES OVERVIEWIn TV and movies, when people go to Heaven, they’re often pictured as see-through,floating spirits. So it’s not surprising that many people imagine Heaven as adisembodied existence.But is that what the Bible says?Join us this week as Bill Brown explores some of the more practical aspects of the Bible’steaching about Heaven.SERMON SERIESThe Good Place Series

THE GOOD PLACE SERIES OVERVIEWIt might surprise you to know that the God we worship has a name – a name he uses for himself.  (Hint – it’s not ‘God’). He shared this name with Moses, and he wants to share it with us too.Join us this week as Mandy Stark launches our new sermon series by helping us get acquainted with the beautiful and powerful name of God. KEY SCRIPTURE SERMON SERIES‘The Good Place’ Series (Week 1/4)

GLORY SERIES OVERVIEWWe’re told that God is a God of forgiveness.  But when he’s telling Moses what he’s like, he makes sure we know that he will deal with sin seriously.So which is it?  Is he seriously forgiving or seriously just?Join us this week as Chris Danes helps us explore one of the most difficult (but important) things we need to understand about God’s characterSERMON SERIES‘Glory’ Series (Week 4/4)SCRIPTUREExodus 34:7b

GLORY SERIES OVERVIEWWe hear it a lot – that God is a God of forgiveness. But do we believe it?  Maybe we’re starting to doubt it?Yet his forgiveness is one of the things that made God’s list of things he wants us to know about himself.  Maybe we need to pay a little more attention?Join us this week as we explore more about the character of our glorious God.KEY SCRIPTUREExodus 34:7aSERMON SERIESGlory Series

GLORY SERIES OVERVIEWEvery person in this world has a different picture in their head of what God is like. But how would God describe himself?  What words would he use?You might be surprised by his answer, and it might change everything you thought you knew about him.Join us this week as Chris Danes continues our series ‘Glory’, by helping us understand what God says about himself. SERMON SERIES‘Glory’ Series (Week 2/4) SCRIPTUREExodus 34:6b

GLORY SERIES OVERVIEWIt might surprise you to know that the God we worship has a name – a name he uses for himself.  (Hint – it’s not ‘God’).He shared this name with Moses, and he wants to share it with us too.Join us this week as Mandy Stark launches our new sermon series by helping us get acquainted with the beautiful and powerful name of God. KEY SCRIPTUREExodus 34:6aSERMON SERIES'Glory' Series (Week 1/4)

TROUBLESHOOTING SERIES OVERVIEWIt’s easy to get into the habit of dismissing old technology - or into the habit of avoiding shiny new technology which seems too unfamiliar to navigate. In church life, it’s all too easy for the different generations to see one another the same way.   Is it time to develop new habits? Join us this week as Mike Riddell finishes our series Troubleshooting by exploring some great wisdom from the letter of 1 Timothy. SERMON SERIES'Troubleshooting' Series (Week 4/4) SCRIPTURE1 Timothy 4 & 5

TROUBLESHOOTING SERIES OVERVIEWWomen have long struggled for their voices to be heard in this world, and also in the church.  Yet Paul’s advice in his letter to Timothy seem to be that women in the church should remain quiet and submissive.  So what’s it to be?Join us this week as our Senior Pastor, Chris Danes, tackles this very important but very misunderstood passage from the bible.KEY SCRIPTURE1 Timothy 2SERMON SERIES'Troubleshooting' Series

TROUBLESHOOTING SERIES OVERVIEWFor some of us, the numbers in our bank account decide whether we’re having a good week or bad week, good year or bad year. And surely, if those numbers were just a little higher, things would be better, right?Join us this week as Fiona Brown takes a look at what the Apostle Paul has to say to that in the letter of 1 Timothy. SERMON SERIES‘Troubleshooting’ Series (Week 2/2)SCRIPTURE1 Timothy 6

TROUBLESHOOTING SERIES OVERVIEWWhen we open the wrong email or download the wrong file, it can corrupt our whole system. But are we as careful about the messages we permit into our hearts as we are about the messages we permit into our devices?Join us this week as Chris kicks off our four week sermon series, ‘Troubleshooting’, where we’ll be exploring some of Paul’s solutions to some common problems.KEY SCRIPTURE1 Timothy 1SERMON SERIES'Troubleshooting' Series

OVERVIEWThroughout the year, we love to set aside special opportunities to involve kids in our services - we call these Family Services. This Sunday, join us online for one of our Family Services as we worship, pray and grow alongside the kids in our community. Also, hear from Ruth Bawden as she helps us understand the wisdom of Jesus' Parable of the Sower.SERMON SERIESFamily ServiceSCRIPTURELuke 8:1-15