Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 24th of August 2025

 

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 24th August 2025 
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  
We're meeting -- Room:3 

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

MIssional Community -- Made Simple!

Missional living is adopting the posture, the eyes and the hands of Jesus in order to live out in the world as 'instruments of God's peace.'  All Christians are called and sent to live out the good news of God's love. I wonder, what's your 'model aeroplane club?'

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 17th of August 2025

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 17th of August 2025

Lord’s Prayer #7 — LISTENING “Give us this day our daily bread”

Video & discussion around the “Prayer Course.” 

If you want to view the video yourself go: HERE

Light refreshments. Venue: Social Support Centre, 

Activity Room:3 70 Mernda Village Drive, Mernda 

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

Note - Enter from the carpark at the back of the complex, not directly from Galloway Drive. We'll have a billboard out!

(Not in UCA Hall this week)

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 10th of August 2025

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 10th of August 2025

Lord’s Prayer #6 “On earth as it is in heaven” — What is contemplation?
Video & discussion around the Prayer Course.” 

If you want to view the video yourself go: HERE

Light refreshments. Venue: Social Support Centre, 

Activity Room:3 70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

Note - Enter from the carpark at the back of the complex, not directly from Galloway Drive. We'll have a billboard out!

(Not in UCA Hall this week)

Haven | 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Sunday 3rd August 2025

5:00pm - 6:30pm—Sunday 3rd of August 2025

Sip piping hot soup, rolls, & salad as we enjoy conversation together and discuss some more life questions

Our Location is in a home for this week so we wouldn't put publicly it on here. 

SMS if you want details or if you want to bring a pot of soup, or crusty bread or soft drinks or some dessert (0418 382449)

“God, make it count.”

Tonight at Haven, we referenced this prayer - Here's a version of it for you to use and modify for your situation.

Instead of praying “God, make it better”, maybe we need to pray “God, make it count.”

Lord, my friend is seriously ill [or dying]. Don’t just make it better, make it count. If she can be better, let it be so, but don’t let this suffering have been wasted. Work it for good. Please show up and show your grace. Make it count.

God, I’m so busy and so tired. I so badly want to pray “make it better! Make it stop!”, but I’m going to pray “make it count, please,” instead. Let me learn grace under fire. Let me learn to say no to the bad and even the good so that there is time enough to say yes to the best. Show your strength in my weakness. Make it count.

God, thanks for a lovely, sweet season in my marriage. Rather than saying “thanks, keep it up, make it better”, please Father, make it count. Help us to be thankful and still work hard at our marriage, not leaving prayer for the tough times alone. Let this good season count.

God, money is tight for so many dear ones. Everything in me wants to ask for more, to make it better. But please Lord, make these tight days count. Teach us to be wise stewards, teach us to give generously now while we feel hard pressed, teach us to pray for daily bread, and to learn the secret of contentment whether we have plenty or little. Make these days of economic hardship count.

God, I’m at my wits end with my kids. They won’t eat, sleep, or obey as I’d hoped they would. I want it to be better, please Lord… I know you can make it better, but instead I will pray “make it count”.

Help me to be patient with my slow to learn kids, as you are patient with slow to learn me. Help me to show love to them in their immaturity, as you show love to me in mine.

Lord, make these trials in parenting count: let them teach me and my children what YOU are like as a parent. Make these long days of relentless loving discipline count.

God, now that I think about it, please don’t just make it better — Not if it doesn’t count.

Please make it count, so that these light and momentary afflictions do the work of preparing us for a weight of glory that outweighs them all.

God, this is my life: in all it’s gritty, knotted and messy glory.

These are my loved ones.

These are my tears. Please, please, please… 

Make it count. 

Amen!

“…That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever..” 2 Cor 4:16-18 (NLT)

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

 

4:30pm-5:30pm — Sunday 27th of July 2025 

The Lord’s Prayer #5 “Your will be done”

We’ll consider the question: “What about unanswered prayers?” 

Video & discussion around the “Prayer Course.” 

If you want to view the video yourself go: HERE

Light refreshments. Social Support Centre, Activity 

We're meeting -- Room:3  70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

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Summary points 

• The Bible is honest about unanswered prayer
• We are part of a faith that is all about wrestling. 
• God’s world, God’s war, God’s will.
• 
God’s silence is not the same as his absence. 
• WHAT DO YOU FIND HELPFUL OR CHALLENGING?

Note different location for a number of Sundays....

Hi everyone, 

Make a note we are meeting in a new location for a number of our gatherings 

Check the promo for each week to confirm location

Activity Room: 3 Mernda Social Support Centre, 

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

(Cnr Galloway & Mernda Village Drive)

Haven | 4:30pm-5:30pm | Sunday 20th of July 2025

4:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 20th of July 2025

The Lord’s Prayer #4 “Your kingdom come” — What is intercession? 

Video & discussion around  the “Prayer Course.”

If you want to view the video yourself go: HERE

Light refreshments. 

Location: Mernda Social Support Centre, Activity Room:3  

70 Mernda Village Drive Mernda

Note - Enter from the carpark at the back of the complex, not directly from Galloway Drive. We'll have a billboard out!

(Not in UCA Hall this week)