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The Link
December 22 2013
“ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel – God with us.”
Neil Ryan Seth Emery Kathy Heath Gavin Jones Allan Stanley-Smith
Senior Pastor Youth Pastor Children’s Pastor Pastor, LifeChurch Pastor, Pastoral Care
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Welcome December 22 2013
Welcome to Unley Park Baptist today. It is great to have you with us. If you are new to
Unley Park, we appreciate that it can be daunting to walk into a new church, so as much
as we can, we want to help you feel at home here.
In the pew in front of you please find a black folder that contains a white care card foryou to complete.
There is also a "Welcome Pack" available for you that, among other things, has a special
Care Card for you to record your visit and for us to follow up any requests you make.
All Care Cards should be "posted" as you leave the church, in the locked box on the table
by the "Baptistry Door".
10.00am Morning Worship – Neil Ryan
Saul and David 1 Samuel 18-24Why can’t God’s people get along?
Morning Tea:
Morning Tea Next Week:
5.00pm
Marlene Salmon, Denise Gooley, Lois Smith
Volunteers
Life Church
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Just a Minute
Something dawned on me recently that my grandchildren know very well. I am a relic
from the old days! After all, I grew up before we had computers. Imagine living in a
world like that! We spent most of our time playing with dinosaurs!!
When I think about the old days, I’m reminded that without computers, we didn’t know
as much about each other as we do now. People had a ‘private’ life and a ‘public’ life.
We only discovered what happened in people’s private lives when someone died and a
book was written. We would read with amazement at things we would never have
thought possible. Often the book opened up a whole new world of understanding about
that person.
How different things are today!
Now we have social media sites like Face Book, Twitter and video sharing sites like You
Tube. There seems to be little or no concept of ‘private’ and ‘public’ life. In fact the more
‘private’ the information shared, the more the ‘public’ loves it! We are getting to the
point where we are sharing pointless and useless information that we really don’t need
to hear.
“Never eat leftover sushi for breakfast. Feeling SO pukey right now. LOL!”
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zane recently predicted that in the next 10 years, sharing
all sorts of details of one’s life in the form of status updates, Twitter feeds and YouTu be
clips will evolve into something even more revealing and make some people’s lives even
less private. Zane predicts that technology will allow something called “LifeCasting,” a
nearly nonstop, streaming video of one’s every moment.
Are we ready for “LifeCasting?”
Imagine living in a world where every thought was streamed.
Imagine living in a world where every desire was published.Imagine living in a world where every failure was highlighted.
Imagine living in a world where every fear was transmitted.
Maybe I’m writing as a ‘relic’, but I don’t think it matters if we have an almost non -stop
streaming of information about our lives, there will still be something we will not or
cannot share about ourselves.
I am grateful that there is still a ‘private’ part to my life that is streamed into the very
presence of God and God alone. He is the only one I trust with every thought, everydesire, every failure and every fear!
Cont…
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Psalm 103 says this……
He does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
Lord, there is something about us that feels uncomfortable about someone knowing
everything about us. But if we have to be fully known, I am glad it is you.
God BlessNeil
Christmas day offering
Again we will be supporting Baptist World Aid’s Beyond Disability Project.
Slices for Christmas Street Party
We are asking the church community to help supply homemade slices or biscuits for our
Christmas Street Party tonight, Sunday 22nd
December.
Please leave your slices and biscuits in the church kitchen Sunday morning or when you
arrive at the Street Party.
See Noelene Hunt or Kathy Heath for any inquiries.
Children’s Christmas Choir
The rehearsal times for the children are as follows:
Sunday Dec 22 – final run through - rehearsal schedule time TBC
Pre-service prayer
We meet each Sunday morning before the coffee time and before the service, in Neil
Ryan's office for a short time of prayer at 9.45 a.m. All welcome.
"Did I not say to you, if you believe, you will see the glory of God"? John 11:40
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Our Missionary Families
The Ames Family
Owen, Sarah, Rachel,
Jessica & Joshua
OM/TEAM Church
Planting, Tokyo,
Japan
Operation Christmas Child
During the week I had a Christmas card from Alison Ellis our contact person with
Samaritan’s Purse. She wrote to thank the church community for their generous support
of Operation Christmas Child and to let us know that in total our Samaritan’s PurseBranch sent 24,561 Christmas boxes.
20,609 to children in Thailand
3,782 to children in Cambodia
168 to children in Vanuatu
Please pray that the children will come to know Jesus through these gifts and the
invitations they receive to join The Greatest Journey Program. Kathy
Pray for these familiesNames for this week beginning December 22:
Frank & Val Park
Cliff Parken
Rhys & Angela Parker
Gino, Michelle, Rebekah, Zach, Kahli & Tessa Piombo
Daniel, Monique, Susannah & James Pringle
Ian & Wendy Pringle
This morning (Dec 22nd
) SonRise Church is having a special
Christmas service. We have invited various friends and
contacts to come along to the service and Christmas lunch.
Sarah’s English class kids will be doing a presentation so their
families will be attending too. We really appreciate your
prayers for this wonderful opportunity to share the good
news of Christmas! Pray for open hearts to hear the message
and also for good times of fellowship over lunch too.
Please pray for David, Kimura-san and Kelly who will be
attending the orphanage Christmas party as representatives
of SonRise Church on December 25th
!
We also appreciate your prayers for us and our families as
we are away from each other at Christmas.
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CHRISTMAS SCHOOL HOLIDAYSDuring the holiday break there will be a
shortened Children’s Ministry Program for the
children in Small Groups Kindy to Year 5.
The children will be signed in during morning coffee time and will sit with their
parents until just prior to the sermon when they will leave the church. They will
be signed out and collected at the conclusion of the service.
The children in Years 6 & 7 2014 (ZONE 67 ) will remain in church during the
School holidays.
HOLIDAY PROGRAM
Please note there will be NO Children’s Ministry Program on 29th Dec and 12th Jan.
CRECHEAt this stage there will be Crèche provided on Dec 22
nd.
We need volunteers for January 5th
, 19th
and 26th
.
If this doesn’t happen the Crèche facilities will be available for parents to use
with their Babies to Kindergarten age children only … as these facilities are
specifically age appropriate.
*There will be no formalised Coffee Playtime during the Holiday break.
*UPbc will commence Sunday 2nd
February 2014
DATE FOCUS 22
nd Dec Christmas
29th
Dec Family Brunch Sunday… family service
5th
Jan Seminar Sunday
(sign in will take place at 10.30am)
12th
Jan Service Sunday … family service 19
th Jan Christian Magician is coming
26th
Jan Gearing UP
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Sermon Notes
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This week at UPBC
Playgroup
In recess for school holidays
Tuesday December 24
9.30am-11.30am
Prayer TeamIn recess
Hilighters
In recess
Munchiez Food Van
Team 8 David Healey
Chrismas Day Service
Tuesday December 249.30am-10.30am
Tuesday December 24
11am-12noon
Tuesday December 24
5.30pm - 8.00pm
Wednesday December 259.00am
Playgroup
In recess for school holidays
Bible study at the church
In recess
Know your Bible
In recess
Munchiez Food Van
Team 15 Aaron Havers
Elevate Youth Group (year 8-12)
In recess
Morning Worship
Brunch and Communion
LifeChurch
Northgate Street
Unley Park
PH: 82720258
www.upbc.org.au [email protected]
Wednesday December 25
9.30am - 11.30am
Wednesday December 25
7.45pm - 9.00pm
Thursday December 26
9.30am-11.30am
Thursday December 26
5.30pm-8.00pm
Friday December 27
7.30pm-9.30pm
Sunday December 29
10.00am
Sunday December 29
5.00pm