⭐️ HAVEN OVER EASTER ⭐️

Hi everyone,

We wouldn’t be meeting up at the Mernda Uniting Church over Easter. Instead we are encouraged to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter,  with our brothers and sisters in other local churches.

Some of us will be away, and for others, if you have had a connection with some other local faith community — by all means join them in their services!

Two ideas to consider:

— 10am Good Friday 18 April — Combined Churches Service in Hurstbridge - Ferguson's Paddock (12 Arthurs Creek Rd, Hurstbridge) SEE HERE FOR INFO

— 10:00am Easter Sunday 20 April — Join in with our friends at Diamond Valley Baptist Church to celebrate Easter —  Venue: 309 Diamond Creek Rd, Plenty. (DVBC has been supportive of us as we have got started!) SEE HERE FOR INFO

— We’re then back again as per usual:

4:30pm-5:30pm 27 April — Worship Focus: Gather around the Communion table, draw strength & reflect on The Lord's Prayer.  Light refreshments: UCA, 97 Schotters Rd, Mernda. SEE HERE FOR TERM TWO PROGRAM

Grace and peace

Martin

Easter Service 20th of April 2025

 

• 20/04  —  10:00am-11:30am Easter Sunday
• Join in with our friends at Diamond Valley Baptist Church to celebrate Easter — Or ...  if you have a connection with another congregation, feel free to join with them! 
• Venue: 309 Diamond Creek Rd, Plenty

Note: We are not meeting back in the afternoon at Mernda Uniting Church till 

4.30pm Sunday 27th of April! See Term 2 timetable HERE

Combined Churches Good Friday Service | 10am 18th April 2025

I got questions!| 4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 23 March 2025

 

We all have questions around life, the universe and everything! 

And no, the answer isn't always 42!

We're going to have an afternoon where we pose some of those questions and think about how we respond to them. I'm not guaranteeing 100% right answers! Often questions can raise other questions that send us away thinking some more!

Come and join is! If you want you can send in a question beforehand via here: HERE

What if God was one of us? | 4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 16 March 2025

Some years ago, Joan Osborne (1995) released a song called "What if God was one of us?" The first verse started:

    If God had a name what would it be?
    And would you call it to his face?
    If you were faced with Him in all His glory
    What would you ask if you had just one question?

Christians believe that the miracle of the incarnation was that God was one of us, and  that the life and death and resurrection has special significance.

C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia books) put it like this: 

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”  ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

As we go through the season of Lent leading up to Easter, we're going to consider this at our gathering on 4.30pm Sunday 16th of March (Mernda Uniting) What's the significance of Jesus Christ and what do Christians believe happened at that first Easter. Come join us!