Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

Repair, Restoration & Renovation @BBP!

Welcome to Browns Bay Presbyterian

Sunday Morning
Online @ BBP

Services are held here at Anzac Rd are back in the Church auditorium.

YouTube Recordings are posted here on this site after editing by Monday.

Here is the weekly link for YouTube
News Live

PASTORAL SUPPORT

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)

We're glad you're here! We hope you will find all you need to know about Browns Bay Presbyterian.
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.

You'll find more information about us from the links on the menu on the left.

From the Pastor’s pen:

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.

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Newsletters are sent out by email. To get these and other news you can send your email address to: estellejseaman@gmail.com. We’d love you to stay connected.

21 April 2024

LIKE THE EARLY CHURCH - WE CAN MEET IN HOMES
I encourage you to join one. Speak to Dave, Val or Rob.

REFLECTION: THE SHEPHERD WHO LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP
The fourth Sunday of Easter every year is “Good Shepherd Sunday”. The Gospel reading always comes from John 10. We speak about shepherds and sheep often even when we are not aware of it. The word “pastor” means “shepherd”. If you make use of this weekly newsletter on Sunday during the readings, and follow in the Portuguese version you will be able to compare languages. For example, “the Good Shepherd” is “o bom Pastor”. “Pastor” comes from the Latin root, and Shepherd from the Old English/Anglo Saxon “sceaphierde” or “sheepherder.“ My call to this congregation is to be a pastor/teacher (Eph 4: 11). It’s my ‘ministry”. If this sounds like a lesson about languages, it is in a sense. “Pastoral” is a term for the care of the flock. Elders in the church share that load. Paul makes it clear in his prayers for the Ephesian elders when he leaves them for good that this is their role: “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock" (Acts 20:28-9). (“Overseer” is the word “bishop.”) Today we celebrate the restoration of this wonderful worship centre. I can’t call it a “church” (That’s us - we are the church.) It is a place for anyone in our wider community and extended church family to feel welcome in, as we carry out other parts of our calling: hospitality and service. My prayer is that we can do this well as we share Jesus’ love and kindness, and with open hearts. Let’s create oppor- tunities to have conversations together (over a cup of tea or a meal) as we tell our guests who the Good Shepherd is and how Jesus is “the reason for the hope we have” (see our Mission statement above). Well done to Dave Sheppard and the team who have made this a truly lovely place to gather - for us and future generations. We honour you all for your sacrificial service and love. We praise God for his faithfulness, and his provision. Glory to God alone.

Blessings

Robin

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)