- Haven Mernda
- 4:30pm-6:00pm Sunday 28th of June
- SHARING TOGETHER
- How’s your year been so far? High? Low? Buffalo?
- Light refreshments
- (26/6 Term ends)
- Venue: Social Support Centre, Activity Centre, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda
Sunday, June 21, 2026
4:30pm - 6:00pm Sunday 28th of June 2026
GOING BANANAS | St JOHN’S HOLIDAY PROGRAM
GOING BANANAS | St JOHN’S HOLIDAY PROGRAM FOR PRIMARY AGE CHILDREN. WEDNESDAY, 1 JULY – FRIDAY, 3 JULY
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Going Bananas is one of St John’s biggest church events of the year, with over 120 kids coming to take over their building and spend three days doing craft, playing games, singing, dancing, and, most of all, learning about God’s love for them.
Haven schedule to December 2026
Note: Many of these activities will take place at the Social Support Centre, Activity Rooms 1-2, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda.
Note too, that from time to time we may swap some activities around - so always check back on this blogpage closer to the date! 😊
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
4:30pm - 6:00pm Sunday 21st of June 2026
- Haven Mernda
- 4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 21st of June 2026
- Table games & hot chocolate! Lazy afternoon together!
- Bring a friend and bring your favourite card or board games and some chokkies to share!
- Venue: Social Support Centre, Activity Centre, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda
Sunday 5th of July | NO GATHERING TODAY
- No gathering today - Sunday 5 July!!
- We’re having a break mid school holidays
- Back next week (12/7) for a meal together.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Boutros Winter 2026 Update
We’re into the middle of the year, with the shortest day of the year coming up soon (21 June)!
Winter is a season of discontinuity. The growth, warmth and light of summer are gone, he days are short, often damp, and there’s less light. Spring is still a-ways off. It’s a ‘liminal’ time!
Our modern world can feel like permanent liminality! Everything we thought was nailed down keeps changing. We live with permanent stress because the 24/7 world is never still long enough for us to re- acclimatise.
We’ve had a ‘pandemic’ of stress and fear long before we had the corona-virus pandemic! We have been alert and alarmed for years. And then of course, the never-ending earthquakes in world affairs can feel like a dark liminal space. How do you navigate such seasons?
In our newsletter, there’s a reflection on managing such liminal times.
The prophet Jeremiah, writing about his time affirms where hope comes from: “... But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.'The Lord is my portion,' says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him.’" Lam 3: 21-40
We want to say a huge thankyou to the many who encourage, support and pray for us and for Haven — You are all SO appreciated!
Sincerely,
Martin and Esmae
Friday, May 29, 2026
4:30pm - 6:00pm Sunday 14th of June 2026
BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING pt6
- 4:30pm-6:00pm Sunday 14th of June 2026
- A few weeks ago we began thinking about personality profiles ably led by Carol Barber.
- Our personality or temperament type shapes us and how respond to others.
- This week, we’ll start with a time of praise and worship — (from last week, which was postponed) — AND we pick up on the theme of temperament types and dig a little deeper!
- Light refreshments
- Venue: Mernda Social Support Centre, Activity Room:1&2 70 Mernda Village.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Pentecost: This Grace That Scorches Us
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| Pentecost Fire © Jan Richardson |
Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them,
and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in other languages,
as the Spirit gave them ability.
Acts 2.3-4
If we didn’t know it before, we surely know it now, as the second chapter of Acts unfolds: this is no tame God who comes to us, no safe and predictable deity. This is the God whose loving sometimes takes the form of scorching.
Before he left, Jesus told his friends he would send them the Advocate, the Comforter. Now we see this Comforter coming as wind, as flame, reminding us that comfort is not always comfortable, for it makes itself known in community, where we find the most searing challenges—and the deepest blessings—we will ever know.
This Grace That Scorches Us
A Blessing for Pentecost Sunday
Here’s one thing
you must understand
about this blessing:
it is not
for you alone.
It is stubborn
about this.
Do not even try
to lay hold of it
if you are by yourself,
thinking you can carry it
on your own.
No Haven program on Sunday 31st of May 2026
- NOTE — Fifth Sunday of the month.
- No formal activity today on 31st of May 2026
- This extra Sunday of the month is a gift for you to use!
- Plan in that: “We must catch up one day!” catch up!
- Chat with the Neighbours?
- Go out for lunch with the family?
- Leisurely coffee with a friend?
- Curl up with a book?
- Lie on the lawn and watch the clouds?
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