Sunday Services
Our Sunday Services are a whole church gathering. This is a time where we can pool the resources, skills and passions of the whole church family to have a fantastic time together.
In our analogy of everyday life, we think of the Sunday Service as a big family gathering where everyone, from siblings to distant uncles, get together to celebrate.
What to expect
We start from 10:15 with a breakfast of freshly cooked pastries, filter coffee and tea. The idea behind sharing breakfast is to enable us to spend time sitting facing each other before we get into rows. It’s a time to catch up and meet new people.
During the breakfast we will often have someone share a short and encouraging story about what God is doing in their life or a way that God makes a difference to their everyday life.
From about 10:45 we move into the main hall for our worship service. This starts with sung worship, where a band leads us all in singing songs to facilitate us focusing on God and expressing ourselves to him. Sometimes we share communion during this time.
After the singing the young people go off to their groups and we move onto a time of teaching, where someone will use the Bible to inform our everyday lives. We usually work through a book of the Bible or a theme over a number of weeks, which may continue in resources for Hubs too. You can check out past talks here.
After the talk we close with another time of singing and the opportunity to pray for each other. We finish around midday.
Our Services are relaxed and informal. There is no expectation of participation or contribution. We’re quite happy if you want to come and observe.
Serving on a team
It takes about 35 people to put on our Sunday Service and so we’re entirely dependent on volunteers to help make the gathering happen. From setting up to packing down, with baking pastries, playing in a band, running the PA system, leading kids activities and praying in between, there are lots of ways to help.
Serving in a team is a great way to support what we’re doing and to get to know other people. Usually people help once a month and might mean arriving a bit early or leaving a bit late. It’s really easy to swap or get cover if you can’t make it occasionally.
Serving also reinforces us as family. If you have the neighbours over for dinner, it’s the family who set the table, cook the food and wash up after. It’s the guests, who aren’t family, that come when everything’s ready, are served and then leave when they’re done. As such, we think contributing to the church is a great way to be part of the family.
