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Halan led the worsjip today and was joined by the music team of Geoff on Keys, Daniel on guitar, and Belle and Bel on vocals in leading the singing. Randall bright us the bible reading and then Ben shared a poem presenting the death of Christ in an interesting way designed to make us thin as we met around the Lords table. James brought the morning's teaching from Colossians on Identity driven discipleship asking the questions, Do we know who we are and what that means? Do we see the source of this identity? Do we experience our identity driven liberty? If we do we should be able to find unity! Colossians 3:14 - Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

This morning James led our service with Bel and Shona and Joel joining him to lead the singing, Garry continued our bible reading through the gospel of John before Daniel led us in communion. Harry then continued his series 'God's plan that needs to be applied" reminding us we need to know God and his character, know where to find encouragement and help, be prepared - know your armour and use it and today know our responsibility which is to promote Unity, Harmony and Oness with in the church. Ephesians 4:1-3 I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Harry continued the series he started last week - "God's plan that needs to be applied" but before that the service was led by Mark with the music team of James, Belle, Bel and Marcia. Belle also the Bible reading to us and James brought our hearts together around the communion table as we remembered together. Then Harry built on last week's message reminding us that we need to know who God is through learning from the scriptures about his nature and his actions. This starts by learning to find what we need by learning the theme of each book so that we can find what we need. We need to be aware that internal chang needs to take place in our lives and we need to be prepared by applying Ephesians 6 - the Armour of God Ephesians 6:10-11 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.

James led the morning's service with the music team of Geoff, Daniel and Michelle joining him to lead the singing. Michael brought us the bible reading and Mark led us in communion. Harry then brought us a sermon entitled God's plan that needs to be applied - a practical lesson on how we can grow. We need to know who God is, first of all, but then we need to know how we can grow and walk with Christ both personally and collectively. Ephesians 4:13: The goal is to reach the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son, to maturity, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

This was a special Sunday for us at MVCCC as we had a visit from our Missionaries Paul and Debbie Howell. They have been serving the Lord in the Philippines all their lives as missionaries involved in planting Churches and translating scripture and leading people to Christ. Both Paula and Debbie shared int eh service with Paul bring us the message as well. The rest of the service was led by Harry and the music team of Aaron, Ben, Jaden and Marcia and Marcia also sang us a solo and Harlan led communion. Romans 10:14-15 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

This week was Operation Christmas child Shoebox collection week for us si as well as our usual service content we took time to bring the boxes into the service and pray for all aspects of the ministry The service was led by- Mark and the music team of James, Ebonnie, Hannha and Abbie. Aaron read the bible reading for the first time reading us the Lazurus story. Stephen P focused our heart around the Lord's Table before James brought us the message. James continued his series from Colossians - Identity driven discipleship, this week focusing on the experience we all share - shared belonging, shared rejoicing and joy, shared suffering ... we experience the whole as one body. Colossians 1:28 - So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.

The service today was led by Michael and the music team of Ben, Aaron, Jaden and Belle. Daniel brought us the bible reading and Callum led us in communion before James continued his Colossians series: Identity Driven Discipleship. This we he focused on the source of our identity - Christ. Our identity has been initiated by the father, redefined through the kingdom of the sin and secured in the image of himself. Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.

VISION SUNDAY 2025 saw the Elders remind us as a church of who we are and how we function together as a family and the goal to develop that deeper in the coming year. We also formally recognised Neil Chapman as our newest elder. Geoff led the service with the music team of James, Daniel, Shona and Hannah leading the singing for the morning and Joel conducting us as we raised our voices in song. James them present the vision in detail reminding us of who we are, how we function and of the discipleship that we encourage into each other's lives - to know Christ and to make Christ know TOGETHER. Harry then continued sharing the vision and then led the time of sharing and prayer as we welcomed Neil into eldership. Neil then led us around the communion table before Mark encouraged us to get deeper into the word and study it by joining TOGETHER in a bible study group. Geoff closed the service, and we shared lunch together. Ephesians 4:15-16 Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ. From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

James began a new sermon serries this week from the book of Colossians entitle 'Living for Christ in an anti-God world' but before that the morning's service was led by Harry and he was joined by James, Marcia and Hannah to lead the singing and by Joel who conducted for us. Margaret continued our bible reading through the Gospel of John and Doug led us around the communion table. Colossians 1:3-5 We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people, which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News