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FUNdraising Committee
Presbytery of Port Philip West
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BUC News

Baptism
During worship on Sunday 2nd January we will celebrate the baptisms of Yosef, youngest son of Luke and Leli and Natalie and Arian, children of Nili and Hamid during worship on 2nd January.  We welcome Dave Hall as our preacher.  Ian will preside over Holy Communion.

Christmas Worship
Our Christmas worship series offered four opportunities to sing, pray, reflect, respond to and celebrate the birth of Christ.
If you would like physical copies of the postcards provided for Christmas Eve or the worship books for the Pageant or Blue Christmas please send your request via the website contact form.

Ministry Team News

  • Ian is on leave from 3rd to 23rd January – we welcome Daniel Broadstock (9/1), Graeme Garrett (16/1) and Fiona Bottcher (23/1) as our preachers
  • Dave is on leave from 3rd to 25th January
  • Peter is on leave from 29th December to 10th January

Olive Way
The Olive Way will reopen on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11th January.

Change the Heart service
You are invited by Senior Aboriginal Christian Leader, Aunty Jean Phillips, to gather together to pray in unison on the evening before January 26…. Join BUC for a screening of Common Grace’s 10th Anniversary Change the Heart service on Tuesday 25th January.  Watch this video from NITV (National Indigenous Television).

BUC News

PIEN Fundraising Dinner
A month or so ago I attended a great online Palestinian cooking class, organised by PIEN, the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network. Now, I am keen to practise my new skills, so early in the New Year, I will be organising a small Palestinian dinner at our place. It won’t be a big group, but the idea is to share some Palestinian food (hopefully nicely cooked) and have an informal conversation about Palestine. It will also be a fundraiser for PIEN, but don’t feel pressured by that.
Please let me know if you would like to be involved. It will probably be on a Friday evening, sometime in late January or February. Anyone is welcome, but numbers are limited, so please let me know as soon as possible.
Thanks!  Tim Budge, 0412 051 574

Wider Church News

Christmas messages and reflections