Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

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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.

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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.

16 November 2025

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Welcome to BBP Family Church and our weekly newsletter.

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
We are privileged to have Eric as our preacher again this week. He writes: This week’s New Testament verse is John 8:12: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” This is one of the seven “I am” statements of Jesus found in John’s gospel (see if you can list the others...). These are identity statements about Jesus, his nature, and his role, and can refer to Old Testament prophecies, as this one does (Isaiah 9:2, which we’ll look at this morning as well).

There is something unique about this “I am” - it is the only one that Jesus also applies to believers. In Matthew 5:14 he declares: “You are the light of the world,” and he exhorts his hearers to let their light shine through their good deeds as a testimony to the work of God in their lives - the result being that others would glorify the Father.

Interestingly, the chronology of these statements puts the declaration of Jesus about himself after his instruction to believers. I believe God always intended his people to be ‘the light of the world.’ The nation of Israel was supposed to showcase who God was through their actions, however much of the time this was not the case. Jesus is reiterating this truth to his followers: how you behave matters. It will either guide people to God, or detract from who he is in the eyes of others. If we live godly lives we have the ability to enable many people to see God and in turn be drawn to Him.

Blessings,
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)