On Sunday we lit the Peace candle as we moved past the quick fix of Fast Food spirituality and embraced the idea that Soul Food is slow food.  This week we take some time for some soul food that offers the gift of peace.  Each day you'll find a question and an opportun...

We're entering the season of Advent - a time of waiting and preparing for the birth of a King.  We wait with Mark as he writes of Jesus, the son of God, to Roman converts living subversive lives in Rome under an emperor who thought he was a god.  With them, we resist t...

In this series we looked at what faith with skin on looks like - what does a fleshed out faith offer the world beyond the community of the church?  We were in Luke's gospel as we explored putting flesh on the bones of our faith and expressing a fully fleshed out gospel...

Thanks for making the Halloween Carboot Party 2018 such a success!  We appreciated you coming out in the rain in the hundreds and being such good sports about the weather.  The winning carboot was Dancing With the Stars followed by Poshbear and Doctor Von Drill.  You c...

Thanks so much for your support for our Fireworks Fundraiser.  We sold $25,000 worth of fireworks!  The profits will go to Youth Work in local High Schools and Youth Camp subsidies.  Thanks for making a difference.

There are so many challenges to reading the Bible...it's so long, some of the words are impossible to say, at times it seems a little random maybe even perverse and yet there is so much richness within the text that we feel drawn to explore it.  What if instead of "rea...

'Parenting the Internet' is a part of Cession Community's seminar series sponsored by the Howick Local Board focussed on strengthening the family.

Lee Chisholm from Netsafe will be talking about what young people are doing online.
* Understanding the newest social med...

It's so easy to get distracted, to find other things sneaking up on you and taking over, to become consumed by priorities that you don't remember setting.  In First Things, we'll take some steps to check our vision, refocus where things have got blurry and turn the spo...

Navigating fatherhood is more complicated than ever - we celebrated our favourite superheroes this past Sunday as they strive to be Incredible Too.

020918 - Incredible Too - Brett Jones

Some questions require more than great answers...they require time and listening...we spent some time in the Wasteland searching out tough questions from the wilderness.  No easy answers with this series.  But maybe some better questions.

050818 - Wasteland I:...