2025 has the opportunity to be a very significant year in the life of our church. Here are some of the things we are hoping to see happen:

God willing, we will launch our new congregation in the Hutt Valley in February. This will be a place and a platform for us to reach more and more people in this region with the good news of Jesus.

God willing, we will recruit another pastor for 2026. This will be essential for future church planting around Wellington by increasing the capacity of our team to make the most of new opportunities.

Just a quick note to remind you of a few things.

Sunday Services
Our Sunday services this week are:

• 10am City Church at Te Whaea with our usual Kids Church programmes up and running. 

• 6pm Night Church 39 Webb St. 

Please note that Hutt Church is taking a break until 19th January. 

This is just a final note for the year to let you know about two things:

1. No Service this Sunday 29th December

Due to our venues being closed we will not be meeting for our usual services this Sunday. Instead we will be having our annual church picnic. Please join us at William's Park, Days bay from 11am. BYO food and drinks. There is a cafe in the park that will be open if you would like to buy something when you get there.

2. Please join us at Equip Conference for the night sessions

Next week a number of us will be heading to the Equip Conference at Forest Lakes in Otaki. Even if you haven't registered, everyone is welcome to join for the evening sessions. We expect that they will begin at 7:30pm on Monday to Thursday nights.

Last weekend COVID made its annual visit to our house to remind us again that as much as we think we make our plans, really we aren't as in control as we would like to be. A nice lesson in humility and dependance on God in the lead up to the Christmas season!

This meant that we tuned into the live-stream for church on Sunday and there were two things that struck me from the service that I have been reflecting on this week.