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.

BBP CHURCH EMAIL LIST - JOIN IF YOU HAVE NOT YET DONE SO
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.

05 May 2024

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

REFLECTION: SHARING GOOD NEWS STORIES
As part of my study leave (long delayed by COVID) I am enjoying a course called “Evangelism in a Skeptical World. How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable.” It’s really helpful and the presenter Sam Chan is very easy to listen to. One of the really useful resources is found here:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/tgc-podcast/biggest-misconceptions-evangelism/
I encourage you to listen to the discussion and/or read the article. Part of Chan’s approach is to use storytelling. He commends various options to learn this skill including the work of WycliffeNZ (the Bible translators) who I’ve discovered offer a “One Day Bible Storytelling Workshop” here in Auckland on Saturday 1 June, 10:00am - 4:30pm @ Mount Albert Baptist Church (732 New North Road, Mount Albert. $20 per person, BYO lunch, refreshments provided.) They write:

“Whether applied in formal ministry or your personal life, Bible storytelling is a great way to help people understand and engage with Scriptural truths in ways they haven’t before. Storytelling is a powerful form of communication that has the ability to move people at the heart level, and much of the Bible was written and told in the form of stories! In this one-day workshop, you’ll get a tast- er of how to craft and tell memorable and accurate Bible stories, as well as how to teach and lead discussion from them.”

What a great opportunity. Contact them here: admin@wycliffenz.org for more information and to register. Thanks for your prayer support at this time. And our thanks to the BBP team.

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)