Category: Sermon Notes

Traffic Light

 In less than a month in New Zealand we will move from a levels and lockdown system to a traffic light system as part of our response to Covid.  We’re not certain what that will look like yet, but we do  know that as a church we are concerned that we care for anyone who is in a vulnerable position.  It seems like the situation (and rules) change quickly.  We are currently streaming our services on our facebook page, but as soon as it becomes difficult to meet, we’ll go back to hosting zoom meetings. We have appreciated the ability for multiple people to talk, the breakout rooms and so on. So if you are not sure what is happening,…

Following Jesus : The Call : Come and follow me.

  Small group Notes  Watch the video “How to age Gracefully” What advice would you give to someone who is a couple of years younger than you ?  Share your advice with each other – have some fun with it. It was the 10 year anniversary of the christchurch earthquake last week. Share a memory or two. If you had to give advice to yourself back then, what would you say ? One more story : We read a bit of “The Rabbit Listened” where Taylor builds a block tower and it’s knocked down.  What would you say to taylor when his blocks are knocked down ?  We’re going to pay attention to Peter.  Young Peter is a professional fisherman.…

Remembering the earthquakes

It’s been 10 years since the christchurch earthquakes plagued us. Last year was notable in that we moved out of our earthquake damaged building and this year we’re moving back in. While we did so, we found this memorial

January Services

Well we’re in the foyer of our refurbished building.  We gather at 10:30 on Sunday mornings.  It’s kind of stunning for us, but there is still a lot to do. We’ve jury rigged a rough sound system and found a bunch of chairs, but we’re kind of camping while we get all our ducks in a line for using the rest of the building. There’s a fair amount to do. What that means is that we’re not yet recording our services the way we used to, so no podcasts, and no live streaming right now. We hope to get that sorted by February, along with a loooong list of other changes. It’s great to have a building and to get…

What did you get for Christmas?

Merry Christmas, Don’t know what you got for Christmas, but we got a new/refurbished building. Planning an opening in February, but we had our first service in our foyer on Christmas day. (Can you spot a surprise guest).No service on the 27th (taking a break), back on the 3rd.

Welcome to Level 1

We’re thrilled to be here.  Our national game of Whack-a-mole continues with Covid, so there will continue to be a possibility of tripping back up the levels. Have you got a few masks (Don’t for get you can get them from our church – part of our fundraising for our re-build)? In the meantime, lets keep washing our hands and logging in the covid app, in case the virus appears in Christchurch.  It’s not about fear, but care for others. We know this virus is pretty hard on the elderly and the poor.  So even if you think you are invunerable, good practise makes it less likely that you will pass it on to others. We’re back to being able…

Midweek update and coloring in page

Hey Parklands peeps,    Won’t be meeting this Sunday physically. There’s a few details to be worked through. We’re planning to get our ducks lined up for the 7th, more details to come. Here’s Colin saying that. And here’s a colouring page for Pentecost  

Sunday 24th May Streamed service

This week we’re breaking with our (recent tradition). We’re going to try not pre-recording the Lead prayer at the start, and the family time. We’ll live stream them from our Zoom and upload them later. So If you’re checking this out before they are up  you’ll only see a message and some songs. However the message has been pre-recorded. This week we were reading from Exodus 25:1-9 and Exodus 31:1-11 (Hold your mouse over them to read them.  I thought I’d ask our building team to reflect on reading them; Some Songs for singing together Life Group/Bubble Study Notes Read – Exodus 25:1–9 and 31:1–11 (Click on this link for a 1 page PDF copy) Humans love building stuff.  Did…