Paddington Anglican

Something New: Gratitude

Something New is on Sunday 29th September at 3pm.
GRATITUDE
We’ll be thinking about GRATITUDE – giving thanks to God for all that’s good, noticing and paying attention to all the blessings we have. We’ll reflect on the story of the ten lepers who Jesus heals and the one who comes back to say thanks from Luke 17.
As usual we’ll wonder about the story and do some hands on activities –
  • gardening – planting our own take home growing things in tin cans
  • launching a street library – we will decorate a new street library to be installed on the church fence
  • origami – crafting with paper
  • and be part of a gratitude circle – sharing things we are thankful for and making a poster to help us in giving thanks over the school holidays
We’d love you to come along and bring …
  • a book to put in the new street library
  • any clean used tin cans
  • Please bring a plate of food to share
SOMETHING NEW is a monthly gathering of adults & children together exploring what it means to live the good life in God’s beautiful broken world. We’d love you to come along and be part of our monthly community.
Talk to Jaimie our Children’s and Families Pastor  or Jess our Community Pastor if you’d like to know more: (jessica[AT]paddington.church)

Future dates for 2019: Something New is held on the last Sunday of the month –  October 27 (Halloween), Novermber 24 (Advent).

 

Previously in 2019:

WELCOMED – we asked but why are there so many churches today? We discovered that when people encounter Jesus they are transformed. We reflected on Saul’s conversionand the birth of the early church. We wondered about it all with dominos, silkscreen printing, chemical reactions and we had a special challenge for high schoolers.

HOPE – we asked but why was Jesus so special and reflected on the women at the empty tomb (from Luke 24), exploring the meaning of resurrection and the hope it offers everyone. We played with a giant ball, went to the theatre to see a play, made a take home Easter garden and undertook a crime scene investigation to work out what happened to Jesus’ body.

LOVE  – for Easter we considered the amazing love story of Jesus’ death and resurrection that makes the cross the symbol of Christianity. We’re asking ‘but why did Jesus die?’ exploring God’s incredible love for his world and the peace, forgiveness and life he wants for all of creation! We had love letter writing, love song karaoke and an Easter Egg hunt.

 

 

NARNIA – we watched ‘The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe’ to explore the ideas of sacrifice and redemption with Edmund, Lucy, Susan and Peter. A great time of popcorn & reflection was had by all!

 

 

BE BRAVE.CHOOSE KIND – Reflecting on the Good Samaritan story, a very familiar story within the Western tradition, we explored Jesus’ challenging words provoking opposition from his contemporaries and his radical call to follow him in love of neighbour. We enjoyed figurine play, film making and clips from ‘Wonder’.

 

 

WINTERSTORYTELLING – A great night sharing tales of ‘homecoming’around the fire with soup, toasties & hot chocolate. We heard of International travels, Sturt’s exploration in the desert, the Prodigal Son story, Jonah’s journey and more.

 

 

 

 

 

THE PRACTICE OF PRAYER – we reflected on Jesus’ own practice of prayer and the Lord’s Prayer that he gave to his disciples. We walked labyrinths, made bead prayer bracelets, did mindful colouring and undertook a chocolate prayer challenge.

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the summary of our gathering in 2018 here.

Photos from previous Something New gatherings: