NOTE — No Haven programme on Sunday 29th of June!

Hey everyone,

Just a reminder that there is NO Haven programme on the 29th of June 2025.

We are keeping the ‘extra’ fifth Sundays of the month as a gift for you to use!

Use that weekend as you need: 

    — Plan in that: “We must catch up one day!” catch up!
    — Chat with the neighbours!
    — Go out for a leisurely lunch with the family!
    — Have along slow coffee with a friend!
    — Curl up with a book!
    — Maybe just lie on the lawn and watch the clouds and rest up!

We’ll be back on for 5:00pm-6:30pm Sunday 6th of July for a meal together — Food of all nations! Bring a plate of something to share from your fav cuisine as we enjoy conversation together & discuss some more hard questions. 

Details to come soon.

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 22nd of June 2025

 Come prepared to consider further the ideas we all shared a few weeks back 

You can refresh you memory here  

Some of the things were talked about then were these:

What have we noticed about our community:

 1.⁠ ⁠Lonely people

 2.⁠ ⁠Language barriers

 3.⁠ ⁠Connection (through Food and language)

 4.⁠ ⁠Needing to work =  means limited time for other things

 5.⁠ ⁠limited knowledge of neighbours

 6.⁠ ⁠Lack of weekend access to community engagement activities 

What can we do:

 1.⁠ ⁠Safe, welcoming environment

 2.⁠ ⁠Join in community festivals

 3.⁠ ⁠Open mic nights

 4.⁠ ⁠Community gardens

 5.⁠ ⁠Chess club and similar 

 6.⁠ ⁠Music and Art classes

 7.⁠ ⁠Grandpa/ma groups

 8.⁠ ⁠Games club

 9.⁠ ⁠Dog walking group

10.⁠ ⁠Kids Hope (key mentors for kids who would benefit at school)

11.⁠ ⁠Tutoring (All educational levels)

12.⁠ ⁠Free exercise groups

13.⁠ ⁠Parenting support

14.⁠ ⁠Youth intervention

15.⁠ ⁠Life skills (cooking. writing, budgeting, simple car)

4:30pm-5:30pm  Sunday 22nd of June 2025

PART 2 of our discussion about outreach 

“Lord, make me an instrument of your Peace…” 

Workshop: How can Haven serve our Community? 

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Revised Haven schedule June - August 2025

Note: Some of these activities will take place at the Social Support Centre, Activity Room:3, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda.

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 15th of June 2025

 
4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 15 June 2025

The Lord’s Prayer #3 

“Give us this day our daily bread."

What does it mean to petition God? 

Video & discussion around the “Prayer Course.” 

Light refreshments

UCA, 97 Schotters Rd, Mernda

If you want to watch this week’s video or — download some of the resources — they are all on this page:  HERE  

Haven | 4:00pm-5:30pm | Sunday 8th of June 2025

 

4:00pm-5:30pm  Sunday 8th of June

This is the King’s Birthday weekend. A number of our crew will be away for a break!

If you’re free, come round for a chat, drink tea & to watch a short, inspiring award-winning film “The Butterfly Circus.” 

For more information: HERE

At M&E’s 13 Kylie Place Montmorency

(Note: 4.00pm this week rather than 4.30pm and there's no meeting this afternoon at the Mernda Uniting Church this week!)

Worship stations

 Hi everyone! 

This week at Haven  we had a worship focus with a difference.

We wandered around our space and spent time in quiet contemplation around

four stations. Some of the stations included quiet worshipful music.

The Communion Table to pause and contemplate anew the bread and there cup.

"... While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, 'Take it; this is my body.'   Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it." 

The Prayer Wall, to pause and pray, adding our own requests to the Wall for others to join in praying for.

The Thankyou Table, a large sheet of blank paper with crayons and texts on hand to write or draw that for which we are grateful.

A Praise Table containing items that represent the beauty and awesomeness of God in creation.  It is good to sit in silence and ponder the greatness of God as seen all around us!