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Ministry Sign-Up Sunday 19th February |
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Written by Michael Durell
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Friday, 27 January 2012 00:00 |
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Are you willing to be a partner in ministry at WPCBC?
There are many opportunities for you to use your gifts to serve God at WPCBC. God empowers us to use our gifts for many different activities (see 1 Cor 12:6) - have you considered how you could use your gifts to serve? Please pray that God empowers you to use your gifts in service of Him, and that enables to you serve in a ministry which best suits your gifts. Because we are are of the same Spirit, worship the same Lord and are of the same body, it is important that we use our gifts to build the church.
On Sunday 19th February after the AM service, you will be able to investigate these various ministries and have a chance to sign-up and use the gifts God has given.
N.B. If you are already serving at WPCBC, you will not have to sign up with the ministries again on 19th February. We thankyou for service and your willingness to use you gifts to benefit the body of Christ.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
(1Cor 12:4-6 ESV)
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WPC Bull Creek's ministry vision for 2012 & 13 |
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Written by Mark
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 18:51 |
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WPC Bull Creek's ministry vision for 2012 & 13 directs our attention to a
core duty for believers - evangelism. I preached a sermon a few weeks
ago from Mt 19:13-15 on 'bringing little ones to Jesus.' Mt 18:3 tells us all
must come a little child (humble & dependant), but How can we help each
other to bring little ones to Jesus?
Be humbly dependant yourself. You'll know the Father's love and be His
child. When you're His child, you'll be like your Father and have His
heart for the lost sheep. You'll welcome others to depend on Him too.
Don't stand in the way. The Disciples (in Mt 19:13-15) forgot what Jesus
said (in Mt 18:1-14) and then went into crowd control mode when
dealing 'with children and those who were far off.' The Father promises '
to rescue, but the Disciples were standing in the way.
Ask the Father to create opportunities to share Jesus. Remember, it's
the Father's heart to find the lost sheep (Mt 18:12-14). He's sent His
Son to fulfil the promise to rescue His 'little ones.' If you, as His child,
ask for something that He desires too - I think He'll give it to you
(similar to 18: 19).
Take on the Father's heart in 2012 & 13 and beyond. Let's work together
as a congregation of Jesus' followers and ask the Father to bring in His
lost sheep.
-Mark |
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Written by Webmaster
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Monday, 05 December 2011 06:42 |
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The Christmas Day service would be at 9.00am.
*** 1st January 2012 AM service will be at 9.30am and there will be no PM service on both Christmas & New Year's Day.
On behalf of Westminster Presbyterian Church Bull Creek, we wish you a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! |
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Pastoral Search Committee |
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Written by WPCBC
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Monday, 05 December 2011 06:39 |
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The WPCBC Session has appointed the following people to the Pastoral Search
Committee-Peter Plumb (Elder), Dirk Soet (Elder), Roy Sarmidi (Elder) and
Henri Chew (Deacon).
The following people were successful in being voted onto the Pastoral Search
Committee by the WPCBC Congregational members. They are Gilly Dodd, Sue
Burrow, Jason King and Monica Indrawan.
The Session will make one more appointment to the Pastoral Search Committee
after the December Session meeting and this will finalize the committee members.
A special thanks to everyone who was nominated and who made the nomina-
tion for our Committee. |
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Start time for morning service |
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Written by WPCBC
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Sunday, 13 November 2011 14:55 |
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As you may know, we currently rent a building in Brentwood for our Indonesian Sunday Morning services and various ministries throughout the week. The owner of that building needs to sell the building so your elders are working out a way so that the Indonesians can have all their worship services and ministries housed here in Bull Creek, commencing 2012. We think this is a good step
for a number of reasons. Not only can we continue to have a close partnership together but now we can work together to alter
and expand our building to enhance our growing ministries.But with this shift of the Indonesian morning service to Bull Creek, the English morning worship service may need to make a slight change in time. To enable us to accommodate an AM Indonesian worship service 7:30am to 9:00 am Sunday, and to manage the transition between services, the English Service would need to
move from our current 9:30am to 10:00 am.
Your elders are supportive of this change out of consideration for one another. We need your feedback on this change by contacting the Indonesian and English elders or by writing a letter to Session. |
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Pastoral Search Committee candidates |
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Written by WPCBC
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Sunday, 13 November 2011 14:54 |
Your elders are authorised to form a Pastoral Search Committee to identify a suitable candidate to serve as our next Lead Pastor. A Lead Pastor's role is to set the tone and pace for the whole church by championing the vision of the church through prayer, preaching, leading and shepherding.
The members of this church have significant involvement in this process firstly, by helping search for a candidate to bring to the attention of Session. And secondly, by way of voting to call a pastor. Therefore, the Session is seeking your choice of 4 members to serve on the Lead Pastoral Search Committee. So that the interests of this church are well represented in this process, we would
suggest that we have nominations for people who can represent our Seniors, Youth and Young Adults, children's ministries and one more person who can represent our general interests.
Then these 4 will be joined by 2 English elders (Peter Plumb & Dirk Soet), 1 Indonesian elder (Roy Sarmidi), 1 deacon (Henri Chew) and 1 session appointee from the membership.
Nominations for the 4 member positions open today and remain open until Thursday, 17th November, 5:00pm. Please phone or email the Church your nominations (after having secured your nominee's permission to serve) to the church office.
We will then have a Congregational Meeting on the 20th of November (immediately after the morning service) to elect the 4 members from your nominations.
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Written by Steve Schoof
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 07:24 |
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I suspect it is an international problem. At least I can say people from various places have mentioned
this to me and it has been an issue everywhere I've been. More specifically, it is an issue at Bull
Creek. The problem I'm referring to is about being on time for our corporate worship on Sunday morn-
ings.
First of all, we cannot be legalistic or even harsh, because sometimes there are very good reasons
anyone of us can be late. Life is complex and we need to be sensitive to each other as there may be
reasons people arrive late that we are unaware of - in fact - I'm sure that there are reasons not all of
. us know about. So let's approach this with some grace.
Secondly, we can all be very thankful to God that at Bull Creek lots of people are on time and lots of
people come to worship here! Given the times we live in along with the many imperfections of our
own church, I am very grateful to God for the attendance we do have!
Thirdly, I do think a reasonable argument can be made for trying to be on time so I'll put it forward in
the hopes that we all will be as conscientious as possible while being sensitive to each other out of
love. Beware, those of you who are committed to being on time, that while this is a good thing, your
passion may expose a Pharisee's heart which would be worse than being deliberately late!
Here are 3 reasons to be on time for our corporate worship:
- As a courtesy to others, please come on time.
- As a benefit to yourself, come on time so that you can enter into the whole corporate worship
experience.
3. As a tribute to God, come on time so that you personally participate in every element of our
corporate worship of Jesus. The songs and prayers are what you offer up to Jesus and
when you are late, you miss out on important aspects of worship.
If you are habitually late, please keep coming to Bull Creek: we love you but please appreciate that
your lateness distracts others and it will be detrimental to your whole worship experience.
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Written by WPCBC
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Monday, 23 May 2011 22:34 |
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Please note that cheques for general offering must be made out in full to "Westminster Presbyterian Church Bull Creek Inc" as the bank will not recognise 'WPC' anymore.
Building Fund cheques are to be made out to: "The Westminster Presbyterian Church Bull Creek Inc Sunday School/Christian Education Building Fund".
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Studies on the Christian Home |
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Written by WPCBC
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Monday, 14 June 2010 05:02 |
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 Many times, we are looking for resources on "A Christian Home". Based on the many literature referenced, the bible and her own experiences, Barbara Cross has made available to the church, a study guide she prepared, that would help families to be God-Centered. This wonderful resource titled:
"Studies on The Christian home - A study guide by Barbara Cross" can be downloaded by ClickingHere . (Barbara Cross is wife of Pastor David Cross (parents of Shelly Vivian), and church planters of WPCBC. |
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