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C.S.LEWIS ON THE INCARNATION:
The Second Person in God, the Son, became human
Himself: was born into the world as an actual man—a
real man of a par�cular height, with hair of a
par�cular colour, speaking a par�cular language,
weighing so many stone. The Eternal Being, who
knows everything and who created the whole
universe, became not only a man but (before that) a
baby, and before that a foetus inside a Woman’s body.
If you want to get the hang of it, think how you would
like to become a slug or a crab. (from Mere Chris�anity)
THE MESSAGE; JOHN 1:14
The Word became flesh and blood, and moved
into the neighbourhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
Find us on facebook or at www.leithvalley.org.nz
CONTACTSCONTACTSCONTACTSCONTACTS Church Office: 467 9208
Leith Valley Church
267 Malvern St, Leith Valley
Ministers:
Studentsoul:
Kidztime:
Music Team:
Mission
Admin:
Treasurer:
Richard Dawson 027 224 2026
Helen Harray 027 473 0042
Ivan Martinez 022 1909 499
Fran Dawson 027 456 1188
Pauline Lovelock 021 133 9015
Kristin Jack 022 075 3286
Rachel Bates Church Office
Matt Dent 027 428 9215
NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK Helen Harray
Ivan Mar-nez
Richard Dawson
Rose/advent
Bronwyn Bennington
Peter & Jessica C
Nick Bates
Phil & Clair Scadden
Harrays
Crossleys
Ruth Pearce
Liam Hu3on
Bill Lee
Nilanthi & Fairlie S
Deborah H
Keryn Harrex
Service Leader
Preacher
Worship Leader
Children’s talk
Bible Reading
Prayers for others
Setup Team
Door & Offering
Welcome Team
Prayer Ministry
Data Projector
Sound
Duty Elder
Morning Tea
Offering Counter:
“Growing great community”
Today’s Team
Service Leader: Service Leader: Service Leader: Service Leader: Richard Dawson Worship Leader: Worship Leader: Worship Leader: Worship Leader: Jess Palmer
Door/Offering: Door/Offering: Door/Offering: Door/Offering: Kidztime Kids Data Projector: Data Projector: Data Projector: Data Projector: Sandi Jull
Duty Elder: Duty Elder: Duty Elder: Duty Elder: Bill Lee Sound: Sound: Sound: Sound: Ged Forbes
Morning tea: Morning tea: Morning tea: Morning tea: Bill & Daphne Lee Welcome team: Welcome team: Welcome team: Welcome team: Mal & Helen Crossley
Ruth Pearce Set up team: Set up team: Set up team: Set up team: Craig Campbell
Offering Counter: Offering Counter: Offering Counter: Offering Counter: Camilla Cathro
IIIIt’s great to have you with us today for our end of
year performance and book presentations for the
children in Kidztime. Many thanks to our Children’s
Ministry leader Fran Dawson and Kidztime teacher
Miranda Fairmaid for all the work that has gone into
today.
� A special welcome to visitors. Please make yourself known to us and if you plan
to be around for awhile, fill out a contact form so we can
keep in touch with you.
� At the conclusion of the service, there will be morning tea for all. Please stay and enjoy this with us.
Money Matters: For all direct payments please use account number
03-0883-0620501-00
If you would like a donation number for tax purposes please contact the office.
THIS WEEK @ LEITH
Men’s Breakfast 6.30am WEDS
Prayer Meeting 7.30 am WEDS
Wednesday Coffee Group 10am Last one for the year! Bring your
opshopped, upcycled or handmade
present this week for our gift exchange
and some morning tea if you can.
CWS Christmas Appeal As we prepare for Christmas we need to find ways to make peace visible in our world broken by poverty, war and greed. Our church supports the Christian World Service Christmas Appeal, first launched in 1945 by the then National Council of Churches to help war torn Greece. Making sure refugees have food, shelter and education, small farmers have seeds and water to grow food and children have medical care when they need it are ways to peace. Your gifts combined with other gifts have helped so many families in the seventy years we have been working together. The work is not done.This year more people have become refugees and many more face violence on a daily basis. To bring peace to our broken world, we must find new paths to peace. Let peace be our prayer and our action as we celebrate the birth of Jesus this Christmas. Your gift at Christmas will help rebuild lives and give hope to people in need of food, water, support and medicine. You can find out more about the partner groups and the work they do in the envelope available in the SPANZ magazine or at http://christmasappeal.org.nz/ You can make a donation by putting a labelled envelope in the church offering, by internet banking or online. Please give generously to the 2015 Christmas Appeal. Thanks for helping us play our part in helping people rebuild their lives.
TEAR FUND CHRISTMAS APPEAL
When I lost my first child, I cried all the time. When I lost my second child, I stopped going to church. When I lost my third child I started praying again. I still ask God was it my fault that he did this to me? Anjela, 29, Indonesia
Your donation will help vulnerable mothers and children in Indonesia and India, as well as support similar projects in Laos, Cambodia and the Pacific. Emphasis is on health education and disease prevention.
https://www.tearfund.org.nz/
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Hospital Chapel Service 6.30pm tonight
All who have volunteered during the year
are welcome. Supper to follow
Date Event
Sunday 13 Dec Kidztime Break up
Thursday 24 Dec Christmas Eve Service
Sundays
27 Dec & 3 Jan
Sunday Service at
Leith Valley
Sunday 10 Jan Service at Hospital
Chapel
Wild Wanaka camp (Scripture Union) The Harrays’ property in Wanaka will be the site of a NEW Junior
youth camp (Yrs 7-10) from Jan 4th
to 9th
2016.
Contact Aaron Douglas for more informa-on
021 326 307 or SUNZ Invercargill 0800 782 2677
Community Christmas Dinner Town Hall, 11.30 am - 2.20pm Christmas Day
Please direct all enquiries for guest bookings or volunteer interest to Dunedin Council of Social Ser-
vices ph: 471 6150
Foodbank needs − breakfast cereals -rice and pasta—-nned fish/meat—Simple serve meals—2 minute noodles
− toilet paper—soap—shampoo—feminine hygiene products—spreads (jam, peanut bu3er etc)
− pet food—Christmas treats (mince tarts, candy canes, chocolate, fizzy drinks, meringues)
PREschool Music Group
Rachel PeFgrew would love to hear from anyone who may have an interest,
no ma3er how slight, in being part of a preschool music group in 2016. She
would love to start a conversa-on about a poten-al new group and discuss
ideas. Ways of involvement may be: leading sessions, welcoming parents
and children, technology support, kitchen support, praying for the group, being an inten-onal
relator. This is not a commitment but would be great to know if others are keen to jump on board!
Christmas eve Service 7pm, December 24 Family service held at Leith Valley Church. Helen needs helpers (singers/readers etc) for the service
and for welcoming/serving food. She would also love to collect up na:vity sets from round the
world. Contact her this week if you can help. 027 473 0042 or [email protected]
Manna Christian store-late night shopping Great Christmas ideas, books, bibles, DVDs, music, calendars, giKware.
Open late this Tuesday (7pm) and Thursday (8pm)
Camping gear needed to borrow Liz and Mar-n Ray have some great camping gear but it is currently in an aFc in England! If anyone
has a tent or other equipment (camp beds, chairs etc) that they could borrow from Dec
29 to Jan 5 they would be very grateful.
Contact Liz on 453 6169/021 0878 3841/[email protected]
Manna Christian store-late night shopping Great Christmas ideas, books, bibles, DVDs, music, calendars, giKware.
Open late this Tuesday (7pm) and Thursday (8pm)
Tent Leaders needed
for this camp. Need
to be over 18. See
Helen if you’re
interested.
