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December 22 2013

“ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive

and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel – God with us.”

Neil Ryan Seth Emery Kathy Heath Gavin Jones Allan Stanley-Smith

Senior Pastor Youth Pastor Children’s Pastor Pastor, LifeChurch Pastor, Pastoral Care



Welcome December 22 2013

Welcome to Unley Park Baptist today. It is great to have you with us. If you are new to

Unley Park, we appreciate that it can be daunting to walk into a new church, so as much

as we can, we want to help you feel at home here.

In the pew in front of you please find a black folder that contains a white care card foryou to complete.

There is also a "Welcome Pack" available for you that, among other things, has a special

Care Card for you to record your visit and for us to follow up any requests you make.

All Care Cards should be "posted" as you leave the church, in the locked box on the table

by the "Baptistry Door".

10.00am Morning Worship – Neil Ryan

Saul and David 1 Samuel 18-24Why can’t God’s people get along?

Morning Tea:

Morning Tea Next Week:

5.00pm

Marlene Salmon, Denise Gooley, Lois Smith

Volunteers

Life Church



Just a Minute

Something dawned on me recently that my grandchildren know very well. I am a relic

from the old days! After all, I grew up before we had computers. Imagine living in a

world like that! We spent most of our time playing with dinosaurs!!

When I think about the old days, I’m reminded that without computers, we didn’t know

as much about each other as we do now. People had a ‘private’ life and a ‘public’ life.

We only discovered what happened in people’s private lives when someone died and a

book was written. We would read with amazement at things we would never have

thought possible. Often the book opened up a whole new world of understanding about

that person.

How different things are today!

Now we have social media sites like Face Book, Twitter and video sharing sites like You

Tube. There seems to be little or no concept of ‘private’ and ‘public’ life. In fact the more

‘private’ the information shared, the more the ‘public’ loves it! We are getting to the

point where we are sharing pointless and useless information that we really don’t need

to hear.

“Never eat leftover sushi for breakfast. Feeling SO pukey right now. LOL!”

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zane recently predicted that in the next 10 years, sharing

all sorts of details of one’s life in the form of status updates, Twitter feeds and YouTu be

clips will evolve into something even more revealing and make some people’s lives even

less private. Zane predicts that technology will allow something called “LifeCasting,” a

nearly nonstop, streaming video of one’s every moment.

Are we ready for “LifeCasting?”

Imagine living in a world where every thought was streamed.

Imagine living in a world where every desire was published.Imagine living in a world where every failure was highlighted.

Imagine living in a world where every fear was transmitted.

Maybe I’m writing as a ‘relic’, but I don’t think it matters if we have an almost non -stop

streaming of information about our lives, there will still be something we will not or

cannot share about ourselves.

I am grateful that there is still a ‘private’ part to my life that is streamed into the very

presence of God and God alone. He is the only one I trust with every thought, everydesire, every failure and every fear!

Cont…



Psalm 103 says this……

He does not treat us as our sins deserve

or repay us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his love for those who fear him;as far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children,

so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;

Lord, there is something about us that feels uncomfortable about someone knowing

everything about us. But if we have to be fully known, I am glad it is you.

God BlessNeil

Christmas day offering

Again we will be supporting Baptist World Aid’s Beyond Disability Project.

Slices for Christmas Street Party

We are asking the church community to help supply homemade slices or biscuits for our

Christmas Street Party tonight, Sunday 22nd

December.

Please leave your slices and biscuits in the church kitchen Sunday morning or when you

arrive at the Street Party.

See Noelene Hunt or Kathy Heath for any inquiries.

Children’s Christmas Choir

The rehearsal times for the children are as follows:

Sunday Dec 22 – final run through - rehearsal schedule time TBC

Pre-service prayer

We meet each Sunday morning before the coffee time and before the service, in Neil

Ryan's office for a short time of prayer at 9.45 a.m. All welcome.

"Did I not say to you, if you believe, you will see the glory of God"? John 11:40



Our Missionary Families

The Ames Family

Owen, Sarah, Rachel,

Jessica & Joshua

OM/TEAM Church

Planting, Tokyo,

Japan

Operation Christmas Child

During the week I had a Christmas card from Alison Ellis our contact person with

Samaritan’s Purse. She wrote to thank the church community for their generous support

of Operation Christmas Child and to let us know that in total our Samaritan’s PurseBranch sent 24,561 Christmas boxes.

20,609 to children in Thailand

3,782 to children in Cambodia

168 to children in Vanuatu

Please pray that the children will come to know Jesus through these gifts and the

invitations they receive to join The Greatest Journey Program. Kathy

Pray for these familiesNames for this week beginning December 22:

Frank & Val Park

Cliff Parken

Rhys & Angela Parker

Gino, Michelle, Rebekah, Zach, Kahli & Tessa Piombo

Daniel, Monique, Susannah & James Pringle

Ian & Wendy Pringle

This morning (Dec 22nd

) SonRise Church is having a special

Christmas service. We have invited various friends and

contacts to come along to the service and Christmas lunch.

Sarah’s English class kids will be doing a presentation so their

families will be attending too. We really appreciate your

prayers for this wonderful opportunity to share the good

news of Christmas! Pray for open hearts to hear the message

and also for good times of fellowship over lunch too.

Please pray for David, Kimura-san and Kelly who will be

attending the orphanage Christmas party as representatives

of SonRise Church on December 25th

!

We also appreciate your prayers for us and our families as

we are away from each other at Christmas.



CHRISTMAS SCHOOL HOLIDAYSDuring the holiday break there will be a

shortened Children’s Ministry Program for the

children in Small Groups Kindy to Year 5.

The children will be signed in during morning coffee time and will sit with their

parents until just prior to the sermon when they will leave the church. They will

be signed out and collected at the conclusion of the service.

The children in Years 6 & 7 2014 (ZONE 67 ) will remain in church during the

School holidays.

HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Please note there will be NO Children’s Ministry Program on 29th Dec and 12th Jan.

CRECHEAt this stage there will be Crèche provided on Dec 22

nd.

We need volunteers for January 5th

, 19th

and 26th

.

If this doesn’t happen the Crèche facilities will be available for parents to use

with their Babies to Kindergarten age children only … as these facilities are

specifically age appropriate.

*There will be no formalised Coffee Playtime during the Holiday break.

*UPbc will commence Sunday 2nd

February 2014

DATE FOCUS 22

nd Dec Christmas

29th

Dec Family Brunch Sunday… family service

5th

Jan Seminar Sunday

(sign in will take place at 10.30am)

12th

Jan Service Sunday … family service 19

th Jan Christian Magician is coming

26th

Jan Gearing UP



Sermon Notes



This week at UPBC

Playgroup

In recess for school holidays

Tuesday December 24

9.30am-11.30am

Prayer TeamIn recess

Hilighters

In recess

Munchiez Food Van

Team 8 David Healey

Chrismas Day Service

Tuesday December 249.30am-10.30am

Tuesday December 24

11am-12noon

Tuesday December 24

5.30pm - 8.00pm

Wednesday December 259.00am

Playgroup

In recess for school holidays

Bible study at the church

In recess

Know your Bible

In recess

Munchiez Food Van

Team 15 Aaron Havers

Elevate Youth Group (year 8-12)

In recess

Morning Worship

Brunch and Communion

LifeChurch

Northgate Street

Unley Park

PH: 82720258

www.upbc.org.au [email protected]

Wednesday December 25

9.30am - 11.30am

Wednesday December 25

7.45pm - 9.00pm

Thursday December 26

9.30am-11.30am

Thursday December 26

5.30pm-8.00pm

Friday December 27

7.30pm-9.30pm

Sunday December 29

10.00am

Sunday December 29

5.00pm

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