WELCOME CARD
Sunday December 14th
PROFESSION OF FAITH AND MEMBERSHIP SPOT - today
We are so excited that Charlotte Humphries, Clarisse Koh, Celeste Koh and Emma Jaeger-Pound will be professing their faith and becoming members at DPC. We will also welcome some who are transferring their membership to DPC from other churches.
CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH
No plans on Christmas Day? Come and join us for Christmas lunch! All are welcome
Date: December 25th
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Venue: Church Hall, Darebin Presbyterian Church
RSVP: Germaine – 0433 208 086
Come celebrate Christmas with us!
KIDS AND YOUTH SUNDAY PROGRAMS IN DECEMBER
In the lead up to Christmas it will be so good to have all ages in our church family all in together to worship God and learn from his word! It will also give our volunteers a break as we reach the end of the year.
ELOS - will have their final week break-up in the Hall on Sunday Dec 7th. Grade 5's are also welcome to join.
School-aged children - There will be activity packs for children of all ages (from creche to ELOS), and all ages are welcome to remain in the service. Parents are responsible for supervising their children. Please do feel free to use the care room as well if that's helpful.
Preschool-aged children - We will still have volunteers so that creche and DPKinder kids can head to creche for some supervised fun if that would work better for them!
The Useful Gifts shop is coming back to DPC this Christmas!
After the service every Sunday between now and Christmas we will have a Tearfund Useful Gifts Shop set up where you can buy gift cards starting at just $5 for some of the teachers / friends / loved ones in your life who have enough stuff already and to bring lasting change to some of the most vulnerable people around the world.
Chickens, lifesaving nutrition, Train a teacher, Keep a Girl Learning, Support a First Nations Leader ... some of the really useful gifts that you can choose from. View the catalogue here.
Any questions: chat with Martine (who has visited some of Tearfund's projects in India and seen the incredible impact they have)
PRAYER MEETINGS WILL RESUME IN 2026
November marked our final monthly prayer meeting for the year. They will resume again on January 18th.
PREPARING FOR UPCOMING SERVICES
We are in the process of preparing volunteer schedules for upcoming Sunday services. If you are a volunteer, please record your unavailability in Elvanto for any Sundays between January 11th and March 29th.
UPCOMING SERMONS
December 14th - Advent sermon
December 21st - Advent sermon
December 28th - Pete Leslie (guest preacher)
NEXT DATES FOR ORDINARY MEETINGS OF SESSION AND BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
If you have an item you would like considered, please contact the relevant person. See here for more details and contact information.
Session - Monday February 2nd. Contact the Session Clerk.
Board of Management - Monday February 16th. Contact the BOM Secretary.