There’s so much going on at Central Church this Christmas Season and we’d love for you to join us in our celebrations. Come along to one or all of our events and you’re assured a warm welcome.

There’s so much going on at Central Church this Christmas Season and we’d love for you to join us in our celebrations. Come along to one or all of our events and you’re assured a warm welcome.


A wonderful reminder – we pray for the church and for the world in all the ways that we can. (Psalm 30 verses 11-12)
Prayer changes people and together we participate in the glorious, life-affirming movement of God’s Spirit
Rev. Kevin de Beer leads two special prayer services (11am and 11.30am) and you are warmly invited to come along.
We gather and prepare to Worship
Welcome & Church News (session clerk)
Choir introit – CH4 106 Bring to the Lord
Call to worship
HYMN 204 Hail to The lords anointed (tune Ellacombe)
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
We worship with ALL AGES
Talk with the young folk
HYMN 456 Make me a channel of your peace
Offering and dedication
We listen to God’s Word
BIBLE READINGS: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
HYMN 478 My song is love unknown
SERMON: Remembering and Reconciling (Rev Kevin de Beer)
We respond as Christ’s folk
HYMN We cannot measure how you heal (sheet)
Prayers of Intercession and Concern
HYMN All are welcome – Let us build a house (sheet)
Benediction & Three-fold Amen
We go out into the world to LOVE and to SERVE
Incidental Music includes “When the Music Fades” and “Speak, Lord, in the stillness”
We prepare to Worship God
Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit)
Call to worship
Hymn You are the God who made this world (Sheet)
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
We worship with the Children
Time with the children
Hymn 590 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
Offering then children leave for ‘young church’
We listen to God’s Word
Reading/s Psalm 22:1-11 and 22-28 and Matthew 6:25-34
Hymn 428 Lord, for the years
Sermon I feel like I am from another planet
We respond as Christ’s folk
Hymn 50 Be still for the presence of the Lord
Prayers of intercession
Hymn 859 I the Lord of sea and sky (Here I am Lord)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
We go out into the world, to Love and to Serve
You are the God who made this world,
You are the truth that all may find,
You are the touch which heals our wounds,
The source of life for humankind.
You are the hope that we proclaim,
You are the path we choose to tread,
And if we hunger on the way,
You are the food by which we’re fed.
You are the love that knows no end,
You are the perfect sacrifice,
For broken lives weighed down by sin,
You are the One who paid the price.
You are the joy that fills our heart,
You are the comfort in our pain,
And as we lay all else aside.
For all we lose you are our gain.
© 2008 John Birch http://www.faithandworship.com
Tune Church Triumphant