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For counselling and support or other church enquiries contact Robin Palmer.

Prayer requests can be sent to office for the church prayer groups to pray for you.

We will continue to pray that all in our community will cope with this new way of life, and be able to find new ways of being a faith community. We can do this!

Every blessing,

Robin
(Pastor)

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With Gods help we can get through this.

We are a community church comprised of people of all ages and various cultures. Our desire is to help people find and follow Jesus. This means we are discovering what it means to love God, love one another and love the community around about us.

You'll find more information about us from the links on the menu on the left.

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Welcome to BBP Family Church’s weekly newsletter.
Prayer is available daily through the prayer chain and email list.

If you click on Readings and Vids for each week’s readings are in English or Korean/English parallel when you click on the Reference, Footnotes link.

28 December 2025

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Welcome to BBP Family Church and our weekly newsletter.

Christmas Continues until Epiphany
Through the season of Advent we lit candles reminding us of the hope, peace, joy, and love we find in our faith, culminating on Christmas Day in the lighting of the central Christ-candle, as our Lord Jesus Christ is the light of the world. It was great to celebrate this Christmas with friends and family at these services.

The Christmas season continues for 12 days until Epiphany on 6 January. As I write this, today is the 2nd Day of Christmas, or St Stephen’s Day in the Western Church, the Feast of Stephen the first Christian Martyr. The day has been so named for a long time, judging by the carol Good King Wenceslas which has been summed up as follows: it’s a story about a 10th century Bohemian King from a 19th century Czech poet altered by an English Hymn writer to fit a 13th century spring tune. What is intriguing in the carol is the question whether the King and his page ever reach the poor man’s house in the cold snowy blizzard. It ends with the page walking in the footprints of the King and reminds us: “Ye who now will bless the poor, Shall yourselves find blessing.” We know St Stephen’s Day here as Boxing Day which is not so named because of the sales or the crowds pushing and shoving towards bargains. Boxes were used in churches to put aside coins for the poor through the year, and in wealthy homes they filled boxes with food and gifts for servants on this day. We who receive so much have much to give.

The Lord bless you richly this Christmas season and in the year ahead.

Robin.

BBP - St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian History

The Original Building became the Hall The first place of worship in Browns Bay was built in 1950, and the building moved to the current site during the ministry of the Rev E Walsh. The new worship centre was built in 1965, and the old one became the hall. This original building was demolished in July 2004 to make room for the hall/new family centre.

The new St Cuthbert’s Building c 1980 James Hackshaw, the architect who designed the 1965 building, also designed many public buildings including various Roman Catholic schools and their associated churches. The St Cuthbert’s building was his only Protestant church design. The administration section, foyer and offices were added later.

The original East Coast Presbyterian Parish created in 1938 and pioneered by the Rev Morgan Richards extended from Castor Bay to Silverdale. Mairangi Bay became the centre of the parish in 1944, and the Browns Bay/Torbay Parish which St Cuthbert’s was part of was separated out of that in the late 1950s.

Recorded Services and Resources are here on our website.

On the menu on the left side of the screen you can click on
Readings & Vids to find each week's readings in English or Korean/English parallel. Previous services and readings are also found there. There are pages with each week’s newsletter, rosters and various other resources On the Browns Bay Presbyterian website. See https://bbpsermons.wordpress.com/ for written sermon texts.

‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (1:14)