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The Saviour We Need

10/3/2022

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"Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord". Luke 13:35b

Collect

May God our Creator, walk with us during this season of Lent. May we enter more deeply into the passion of Jesus and come to depend more completely on his Spirit, that we may live a life that shines with the light of the resurrected Christ. Amen

Readings

  • Philippians 3:17-21; 4:1
  • Luke 13:31-35

Questions

  1. What is a negative experience you have had lately? Sometimes these things are just bad but can you talk about a time when they served God's purpose?
  2. Share a time when you witnessed someone standing up for an unpopular truth and discuss how they went about it.
  3. Discuss a time when you have had a wrong perspective and were confronted with it. How did you respond?
  4. How might we know we are under the form of judgement of being left to our own devices? What might our response be to that?
  5. Can you state what God is doing in your life at the moment? In the life of the church, the town or our nation?

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RESOURCES
  • 1. Notes for Leaders
  • How to Run a House Church
  • Runsheets
  • Pew Sheet

LITURGY
  • 4b. House Church Liturgy - Service of Word and Prayer​
  • 3b. House Church Liturgy for Families
  • Lectionary 2022

COMMUNION
  • Video
  • 2b. House Church Liturgy with Communion
  • Home Communion Service for Lay Leaders

MUSIC
  • ​​Music Resources

PRAYER
  • Prayer Resources

HEALTH & SAFETY
  • ​Diocesan Health & Safety Guidelines
  • Covid-19 Traffic Light System

Children's Resources

VIDEO:
  • As a Hen Gathers Her Chicks

ACTIVITIES:
  • Crossword
  • Colouring Page
  • Maze
  • Word Search

CRAFT:
  • Origami chicken
  • Chicken craft
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Notes for Leaders

3/2/2022

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Using Liturgies

This liturgy has been developed for you to use in home group gatherings during the Covid-19 outbreak, where larger group gatherings have been restricted. Feel free to use this liturgy in a way that suits your group best, and don't feel you have to use every part of the booklet. The basic framework of the liturgy is to share God's word in Scripture, hear a reflection and talk about its application, share commuion, pray, and to look outwards to the needs of our local environment. The idea is that anyone can lead, or take turns sharing in leading. This liturgy is not specific to a Sunday - you could gather on any day of the week.

​Hosting a House Church

We encourage you to keep gathering in prayer and worship together. We encourage you to prepare a space together that is peaceful and welcoming, perhaps with a candle, cross, or other point of focus. If you are using a screen to show video content such as online sermons, make sure everyone can see and hear, and you have any web links bookmarked and ready to go.

Sharing Communion

Groups can share communion using pre-consecrated bread and wine only if they have a leader / member present who holds a bishop's license and they use the 'House Church Liturgy' or the New Zealand Anglican Prayerbook pg 518-520.

Alternatively, groups are encouraged to include an 'Extended Grace' when sharing an informal meal together.
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See Booklet 5 'Runsheet for an informal gathering for the sharing of a meal together'.

Sharing communion is an important part of who we are as Anglican family. If you would like pre-consecrated wafers and wine, please advise the office during the week and these will be consecrated during the livestream service.

In order to share these safely, we suggest that one person, who has thoroughly cleaned their hands as per best practice, is responsible for opening the packet and placing wafers onto a plate for each individual person to take one by one. There should be no hand to hand contact.

Everyone should wash their hands before and after communion (as per best practice for eating). You might like to have some hand sanitiser ready, if you have some available.

We encourage leaders to follow the latest Covid-19 health and safety guidelines at all times. Visit www.covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights for more information.

​Staying Connected

We will be checking in with you regularly to see how we can support you as you meet in small groups. This will include regularly sharing what is happening in groups via the weekly email communication, meeting with you one-on-one and also gathering house church hosts/leaders together for feedback and idea-sharing.

Living in Hope

As followers of Jesus we are His hands and feet in being a joyful and non-anxious witness to our neighbourhoods. As well as continuing in prayer, we encourage you to join any community care initiatives (e.g. local registers, phone trees) which allow you to make loving connections with those around you.
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Communion

3/2/2022

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Prayer

3/2/2022

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Resources

Prayer is the foundation for our relationship with God and we offer a wide range of prayer resources to support individuals and small groups as we meet in House Churches during the red level.

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New Zealand Prayer Book
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This edition reminds us that we are united by our common prayers, which continue to be formed. Our context is what brings our liturgies alive and thus new material is produced. The prayers offered are for both private devotions as well as public worship. Now is the time to affirm, and for some to discover, this taonga; it belongs to us.
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Bible Explore - Prayer resources for children
Bible Explore contains the collect for each week, as well as prayer activity options to help our children engage with prayer.
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Thy Kingdom Come
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Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus. What started in 2016 as an invitation from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Church of England has grown into an international and ecumenical call to prayer.
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Open Doors UK - Prayer
Prayer is a crucial way to support your persecuted brothers and sisters. 
Prayer News brings you face-to-face with persecuted Christians who live and work where faith costs the most.
  • Open Doors Weekly Prayer News
  • Children's Prayer Passport
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Runsheet Samples

1/2/2022

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Running a house church can seem a little overwhelming at the beginning, so we have included a few ideas of how that service might look in your context. Click on the files below and see which one might suit your group.
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2a With Communion
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3a With Families
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4a Without Communion
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5 With a Meal
These runsheets are simply a starting point - you may wish to rearrange how you order your service at home. Typically, a service of worship would include:
  • Bible Readings
  • Sermon
  • Confession
  • Prayer
  • Worship - some form of response to God's word. This could be through liturgy, song, prayer etc.
  • Communion - although this isn't required every time.

And don't forget that we will always have the Livestream available if you would like to continue with this option.
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    We have a variety of tools that we are working on to help small groups 'connect'. These include activities that you can choose to do together as a small group worship service.
    Remember that these are simply a starting point for your small group - you may discover other tools or activities that suit you better. If you do discover something fabulous, please share it so others may also be encouraged.

    We thank the Diocese of Wellington for their work in forming the framework for the house church liturgy.

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  • Home
  • About
    • Faith
    • What We Believe
    • History
    • Meet Our Team
    • Service Times 2022
    • Calendar
    • Ministries >
      • Children and Youth >
        • Preschool >
          • First Steps
          • Tunes 4 Tots
        • Primary
        • Intermediates
        • Youth
      • Families
      • Small Groups (Care Cells)
      • Women
      • Men
      • Senior Adults >
        • Care
      • Prayer
      • Missions
    • Our Governance >
      • Vestry FAQS
      • Diocesan Synod
    • Contact Us
  • How We Help
    • Repair Cafe
    • Healing Horticulture
    • Baptisms
    • Weddings
    • The Marriage Course >
      • FAQ - Marriage course
    • Funerals
    • Counselling >
      • Bereavement Care
      • Personal Counselling
    • Facilities Hire
    • Blue Door
  • Giving
    • Serving
    • Financial
  • Sermons
  • News
    • News and Events
    • Prayer Wall
    • Building Project
    • Vicar's News
    • Bishop's Apology
    • Health & Safety