Our Values:

• Worshipping joyfully, praying and studying the Scriptures.
• Preaching God's Word with relevance and challenge.
• Recognising and using the gifts of God's Holy Spirit.
• Growing as disciples of Christ and in discerning His will.
• Acknowledging God's creation and our responsibility for its preservation.
• Including all people as recipients of God's grace and welcome in our fellowship.
• Caring for each other and serving the wider community.

In Partnership with Paama Seaside Church,
Port Vila, Vanuatu
 

So often we point to Jesus as the one who can make all the difference in our lives, the one who can turn despair into hope, darkness into light. Let’s pause and remind ourselves who Jesus is, and why that can happen.
‘But as Joseph was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. The angel said, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary home as your wife. The baby inside her is from the Holy Spirit. She is going to have a son. You must give him the name Jesus. That’s because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to bring about what the Lord had said would happen. He had said through the prophet, “The virgin is going to have a baby. She will give birth to a son. And he will be called Immanuel.”' (Isaiah 7:14)
The name Immanuel means “God with us.” Matthew 1:20-23 (NIRV)
This tells us: (a) Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit. How special is that! (b) He came to ‘save his people from their sins’; that is, to be our Saviour, to rescue us. That is why he came! (c) He is Immanuel; that is, “God with us.”
Through the Holy Spirit, who dwells in Jesus, he carries us into the very presence of God. It is the very presence of God in our lives that changes everything. This electronic age keeps us ‘wired’, like Eveready's Energizer Bunny. It is hard to stop, but stop we must, to take time to be with Jesus, otherwise we shall lose touch with God. Many of us have found by experience that the darkness can be very dark indeed.