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22 December 2024 (Sunday) @ 10:00am Nine Lessons and Carols at BBP Church	24 December 2024 (Tuesday) @ 11:30pm Christmas Eve Communion	25th December 2022 Wednesday @ 9:30am Christmas Day Family Service
29 December 2024 (Sunday) @ 10:00am Combined service at Glenfield Comunity Church	05 December 2024 (Sunday) @ 10:00am Combined New Year Service @ BBP

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Services are held here at Anzac Rd & are streamed live to YouTube.

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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)

We're glad you're here! We hope you will find all you need to know about Browns Bay Presbyterian.
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.

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08 December 2024

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Advent Reflections - Joy
So far in Advent we have looked at the hope and peace Jesus the Saviour brings to the world. Today we also light a candle representing the Joy he gives. This promise of Joy is expressed for many people in the advent hymn “Joy to the World the Lord has come.” This song includes the line “No more let sins and sorrows grow, or thorns infect the ground” referring to the curse - the consequence of sin in Genesis 3. It is on the cross that this curse is broken. At communion we remember this today. We will hear the whole redemption story of Love at our nine readings and carols next week.

Christmas also has its contradictions. This godly joy is not a temporary feeling of happiness and delight. It’s a deeper sense of wellbeing and celebration of God’s gifts at various levels even in the midst of struggle and challenge. King Herod the Great’s massacre of so many little boys under two - the “ holy innocents” - was a joy-killing slaughter. Jesus speaks of joy in relation to grief when he says: I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. ... Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy (John 16:20-22). Christmas is not always cheerful for people. Or merry. But the deep abiding joy Christ gives remains in the face of loss, loneliness and life’s challenges.

May your joy be complete in Christ. And may we be a source of joy to others. Spare a thought for those with no joy in their hearts and lives today. Pray for them, and lend a hand by giving to worthwhile causes enabling the good news, the “great tidings of comfort and joy,” to reach people in various ways through different media this year, to help restore their hope, peace and joy.

Mission of choice this week: Christian Broadcast Association (CBA) which will again be broadcasting the Gospel of the joy of salvation on public radio – Newstalk ZB - on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. To donate go to https://cba.org.nz/ to make this ministry possible.

Blessings,

Robin

Recorded Services and Resources are here on our website.

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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)