4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 8th of November 2026

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 8th of November 2026  

Worship Focus: An opportunity to meditate on God, pray for each other and break bread together

Light refreshments

Venue: Social Support Centre, Activity Centre, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda

Haven | 4:30pm - 5:30pm Sunday 16th of November 2025

• 4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 16 November 2025 
• Worship Focus: Gather around the Communion table.
• Light refreshments. 
• Venue: Social Support Centre, Activity Room:3, 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 7th of September 2025

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 7th of September 2025

Worship Focus: Gather around the Communion table, draw strength & reflect on Isaiah 43:16-21 

Light refreshments.

Venue: Mernda Social Support Centre, Activity Room: 3 70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 13th of July 2025

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 13th of July

Worship Focus: We gather around the Communion table.

Draw strength & reflect on Psalm 103

Mernda Social Support Centre, Activity Room: 3 

 70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda 

(Not in UCA Hall this week)

Psalm 103 NIV

1 Praise the Lord, my soul;

all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

2 Praise the Lord, my soul,

and forget not all his benefits—

3 who forgives all your sins

and heals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from the pit

and crowns you with love and compassion,

5 who satisfies your desires with good things

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

6 The Lord works righteousness

and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses,

his deeds to the people of Israel:

8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious,

slow to anger, abounding in love.

9 He will not always accuse,

nor will he harbor his anger forever;

10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve

or repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his love for those who fear him;

12 as far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children,

so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

14 for he knows how we are formed,

he remembers that we are dust.

15 The life of mortals is like grass,

they flourish like a flower of the field;

16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,

and its place remembers it no more.

17 But from everlasting to everlasting

the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,

and his righteousness with their children’s children—

18 with those who keep his covenant

and remember to obey his precepts.

19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven,

and his kingdom rules over all.

20 Praise the Lord, you his angels,

you mighty ones who do his bidding,

who obey his word.

21 Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,

you his servants who do his will.

22 Praise the Lord, all his works

everywhere in his dominion.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 1st of June 2025

 

Hi everyone! 

This week at Haven  we have a worship focus.

Gather around for a time of quiet contemplation.  

There will be a number of ‘stations’ for you to engage. 

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 25th of May 2025 

Includes light refreshments. Venue: UCA, 97 Schotters Rd, Mernda 

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Grace and peace

Martin

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 27th of April 2025

 

This coming Sunday at Haven (4:30pm 27/4), we gather around the Lord's Table and focus on the One who died and rose again for us. We’re also going to contemplate what is called ‘The Lord’s Prayer.’

The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, when they asked him how they should pray.

Most Christians know the prayer by heart in their own language, and it is used today by every Christian tradition, though there are sometimes minor variations in the wording. The prayer is a pattern or template showing the key ingredients of true prayer:

• We bless God and pray for our world, our communities and our lives to be shaped by God’s will;
• We pray for daily needs to be met,
• We ask for forgiveness for wrongdoings, strength to resist temptation and protection from danger.

I think the best remembered version is in an older language style:

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name;

thy kingdom come;

thy will be done;

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,

the power and the glory,

for ever and ever.

Amen.

Contemplative walk coming up!

 Looking forward to our contemplative walk on Sunday 5/4! The weather looks just right!

We park on the streets near the corner of Glenwood Ave & Wilton Vale Rd, Mernda (1). Map ref here:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/uHWCLdd9WGcUvpD77   

Try to get there around 4pm. then at about 4.10pm we’ll then walk to our ’starting’ place in the park (2) for a bit of an intro and then we’ll start strolling.

I’ll have  a handout for everyone including a paper map and a guide for reflection as we go around the area. It’s not a long or difficult walk around the wet-lamds (No loos!)

If you are running late, you can see where we are on the map attached…