Helping People into a Living Relationship with Jesus Christ.

Order of Service Advent 1 PLEASE STAND FOR ENTRY OF THE BIBLE SERVICE OF APPROACH PRE-SINGING TIS 590 What a Friend (v.1 and 3, tune of The Rose) CALL TO WORSHIP WELCOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY PRAYER TIS 286 Light one candle for hope SERVICE OF THE WORD READINGS Jeremiah 33: 14 – 16 & Luke 21: 25 – 36 TIS 7265 O Come, O come, Emmanuel CHILDREN’S TIME SERMON: Signs of Hope in Light of Christ’s Coming TIS 687 God Gives Us a Future SERVICE OF RESPONSE JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION NOTICES – OFFERTORY TIS 523 Here Lord, We Take the Broken Bread HOLY COMMUNION BENEDICTION – God be with you (v2) NOTICES Sunday School: @Fellowship Hall Morning Tea @Fellowship Hall Friday Fellowship: 6th December 10am @Fellowship Hall Christmas Morning Tea – Bringing Morning Tea or Dishes Christmas Services and Events Christmas Sunday Service: 22nd December 9.30am Christmas Journey for children and Family: 24th December 4pm Christmas Eve Carol Service: 24th December 8pm Christmas Day Service: 25th December 9:30am Synod Intercultural Forum: Saturday, 14th December Celebrating the remarkable journey of some of the UCA’s older members @Trinity Brighton Uniting Church (15 Black Street) Give hope & Share God’s Love this Christmas Christmas Bowl by National Council of Churches in Australia Coffee Cup Challenge: Organised by Uniting in Vic/Tas Put aside of the cost of a coffee each week from 1 October 2024 until Shrove Tuesday on 4 March 2025, to help people in crisis in your community. “A small sacrifice can make a big difference.” Welsh Choir Concert: 27th April 2025 ($40) @Leighmoor UC From the Community For more information, check out the posters on the church board. Victorian Container Deposit Scheme To donate to Leighmoor Church through the bottle deposits collection, Donation Partner ID number of Leighmoor: C2000009910 (Inserting Code into the machine at Waves Leisure Centre

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Covenant with Creation

News / Leighmoor.Master

The 40.7 hectare [100 acres] was previously a sheep run, gifted to “Trust for Nature” and then on- sold to the Serpell family in 2004 The family is covenanted to improve the biodiversity and increase the quantity and quality of the vegetation and habitat. Through future generations or other future owners, this work will continue in perpetuity. In the past 20 years, approximately 2000 seedlings of understory shrubs and bushes and grasses have been planted and over 75 bird nesting boxes installed. The property has been blessed by hosting several Church picnics and welcoming volunteers from the Leighmoor, Moorabbin Parish [a five leaf eco award church]for annual planting days. [See photos of before and after planting in two areas.] The Age newspaper today, 31 October 2024 advises that Australia’s average temperatures have risen by 1.5 degrees for the first time since records began, and the world is on track to overshoot the Paris Accord’s aim to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. By being a partner with “Trust for Nature” the extent of protected areas store over 12 million tonnes of CO2, in Victoria, an amount equal to removing 2.8 million cars from our roads per year. Expected higher temperatures, reduced rainfall and climate change are all challenges which impact on us all. See website: trustfornature.org,au for further information Geoff Serpell

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