Volunteer Positions Available

volneedWe are looking for Event Hosts to assist with showing occasional users of the facilities around the church and being the host for these users during their event and to be the contact person for any issues that may arise during their event. This position is on an ad hoc basis, as required. It can be for during the week, evenings or weekends. Full training will be provided. If you are interested in finding out more about this valuable role, please contact Deb Mugford, Administrator, for more information or to register your interest.

Be Brave & Shave

leukThank you to everyone who supported me at the Yellow Afternoon Tea to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. It was a great time of fellowship & we raised over $1100 & more is still coming in. This makes a total of over $3100 so far & it was worth dyeing my hair yellow. Cath

BCUC Playgroup Starts Soon

Playgroup will commence on the 10th February, the second Tuesday of the term, & all are welcome.

Burnside City Uniting Church Playgroup is on Tuesdays 9.30-11.00am in school terms

Parents/ Carers are invited to bring children & babies 0-5 years to join us in a fun environment.  Our playgroup encourages healthy living and asks each person to bring fruit to share, a hat for outdoor play & water bottles for children.

Cost : $2:00

There will be tea & coffee for adults.

384 Portrush Road Tusmore SA 5065
Phone   8331 3914
Email: admin@burnsidecityuc.org.au

the Railway Man

rmanMonday January 26th at 7:30pm. Can we railroad you into coming to see the movie “The Railway Man?” Supper intermission. You will be made to feel welcome as you meet with BCUC men. Feel free to bring a friend or two with you. For more information please contact Leigh Duffett or Rex King.

The Next Steps : Advent

The season of Advent is almost here. Our word Advent originates from the Latin word ‘adventus’ meaning coming. Together we are preparing to celebrate the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. As with anything that we do on a regular basis, we need to be reminded about why we do it. In the first century there was a desperate expectation that Jesus would return very soon. The followers of Jesus were persecuted and looked to Jesus coming again to save them. Over the centuries since then there has always been that feeling of expectancy and joyful anticipation as we prepare. Invariably in the busyness of life everything goes back to normal after the boxing-day sales.

This Advent season I ask that we look to the coming of our Lord with renewed expectation. Jesus has come into each of our lives and we have been transformed, renewed and will never be the same again. There are three ways to consider advent; Jesus came into the world 2000 years ago as a baby, Jesus came into my life when I accepted him as my Lord & Saviour and Jesus is coming into the world again.

The next steps for BCUC are to celebrate the historic advent, encourage others to be transformed by the personal advent and to serve in the mission of God in the anticipation of the future advent when Christ will come again.

The Next Steps

“It is not the church of God which has a mission in the world; it is the God of mission who has a church in the world.” (Rowan Williams)

Tuesday night with the first ever Expanded Church Council we took an important step towards progressing God’s plans for his work in our world – both in our BCUC community and in the community in which we are engaged.

The Expanded Mission Action Council allows us to all be in one place together so we are able to communicate with each other, ask our questions and develop our plans to as we prepare to do what God has called us to do. Three of our Mission Action Areas actively engaged in information sharing and discussion around 3 proposals that had recently been submitted to Church Council and needed wider consultation. One MAA was able to concentrate on the Mission plans for their area and to help us refine that planning process.

‘Thank you’ to all those who attended, who stepped out in Faith with us as we tried something new; a process we hope will save us time and allow everyone affected by a proposal to speak into it and to be heard.

For these Expanded Church Council meetings to be valuable, valued and effective it is your participation on whatever level you are able to that is helpful.

The next Expanded Church Council meeting will be Tuesday March 3rd 2015. Members of each MAA will share their ongoing plans for 2015 and the consultation around implementing the Mission Action goals for each MAA will begin. We are here together for a purpose, for God’s purpose and together we reap the benefits of belonging to a very special caring community.

So as with last Tuesday we promise good food, vibrant worship and meaningful communication. Valerie Aloa