Hazelbrook Uniting Church in Hazelbrook, New South Wales | Community organisation

Hazelbrook Uniting Church

Locality: Hazelbrook, New South Wales

Address: Rosedale Avenue 2779 Hazelbrook, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 In the midst of COVID, Australia’s best-selling Christian artist, children’s performer Colin Buchanan, has pulled together an epic new album. In this video he s...hares about the challenges and joys of this year. AND a big congratulations to the winners of our Colin Buchanan CD giveaway. A copy of 'Old Testament Sing-A-Long' is on its way to you. Thanks to all who commented. We loved hearing about your favourite OT stories. See more

24.01.2022 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBsj5JcmSY

19.01.2022 I normally went to the pub on Friday nights. But when I was 22, I met a girl, Cathy. She was visiting a mutual friend at the hospital, and so was I. Our mutual... friend suggested I take Cathy home. Cathy had polio and she was using crutches and two calipers. She’d come to the hospital on public transport. I thought, maybe I should." "We got talking in the car. I could tell right away she was the smartest girl I’d ever come across. She was full of beans. I drove her home, but on the way she said, 'If you drive me home, you have to take me to youth group on the way.' I said, 'Righto,' and I went with her to youth group. It felt like I’d dropped into another planet. There were people playing games and singing songs. They were all happy-clappy. I was wondering what was wrong with them or where was the beer? But then I drove Cathy home and we talked in the car all night, about everything. "It’s our 40-year wedding anniversary this week. At first, we moved to a house with 13 steps. It was crazy. I carried her up and down those steps for 13 years and we kept the wheelchair in the car at the bottom. And then we had our son. It seemed like a miracle to us. Cathy said that she wanted him baptised. For those years, we hadn’t been going to church. I wasn’t adverse to Christianity. I’d read the Bible cover to cover and we often talked about it, but it meant nothing to me personally. And then our son arrived and Cathy wanted him baptised, so we started going to the local church. "I got on with the minister straight way. He was an ex-draftsman and he drove a yellow V8 falcon. I was a draftsman and I drove an orange V8 falcon. I liked his sermons. They were short and to the point. Then we started doing Bible study with him and over time, it made sense to me. I was into mathematics and I had questions. The trouble with the universe is that it loses energy. It winds down. It’s called entropy. So there has to be some kind of mathematical support. There has to be a designer and I started to see that it was God. "I also started to realise that we don’t have to understand everything about God. It’s a bit like having a dog. If you talk to your dog and you tell him things, does he understand everything about your world? No. Perhaps that’s how it is with us and God. There’s a lot we don’t understand. But somehow Jesus became like us. Jesus came to this earth and he spoke with us and he died for us, so that we could be right with God, and know God. "I like a passage in Galatians 5. Back then [when the apostle Paul wrote it], apparently, it was usual to promote yourself. But Paul said to the Galatians that the 'fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.' (v 22-23). That’s what God does in us. As Christians, we want to promote others. The leaders are to be the servants. "Of course, humans are forever doing stupid things. I do a lot of stupid things and I upset people. But Jesus said to love God and love people. I find it hard. There are days when it feels hopeless, but there’s forgiveness. There’s a ledge of grace. And that’s what we have in common, as Christians. We want to help people. And we have a commonality because of what we believe, in Jesus. More Faith Stories @https://www.eternitynews.com.au/faith-stories/

15.01.2022 Spelling matters!

13.01.2022 Bunnings Sausage sizzle on at Penrith Sunday 25th Oct. 9 -4pm We are raising funds for our Christmas Day Lunch at Blaxland and Lawson. Come down and support us and enjoy a sausage. Look forward to seeing you

10.01.2022 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

06.01.2022 Psalm 13, a Psalm of lament: 1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts ...and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, 4 and my enemy will say, I have overcome him, and my foes will rejoice when I fall. 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. 6 I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me. (NIV) See more

05.01.2022 In celebrating NAIDOC week, I pay my respects to our First Nations people. I’m very proud to represent the Blue Mountains, to honour our Elders & take guidance from the Darug & Gundungurra in recognising /protecting Country.

01.01.2022 WYCLIFFE HOPE SCHOOL As we continue to enrol students for 2021, we are very excited to introduce Wycliffe Hope School Coordinator, Mrs Sarah Allison. If you wou...ld like to learn more about our new inclusive learning community for students with mild to moderate ASD or moderate intellectual learning needs, please follow the link below: https://www.wycliffe.nsw.edu.au/wycliffe-hope-school/

01.01.2022 Remember Scott's amazing Faith Story? So many of you were encouraged by it this year that we're sharing it again, so you can inspire others with it. I had a he...art attack when I was 17. I’d been playing tennis at a high level and I was in the Queensland Championships. After the match, I went home and I jumped into our backyard pool. My heart went into spasm and I woke up in the cardiac ward at Brisbane Hospital. It was full of old guys who were about to die. One of them said to me, ‘What are you doing here?’ "It gave me a new perspective on life. After 12 months, I was allowed to play tennis again and I threw myself into everything. For the next ten years, I tried to be the best I could possibly be, in every part of life in tennis, and in work. I got involved in a really successful company doing building design. I bought a house and an MG. I moved to Sydney to start up a Sydney branch. We were turning over six million dollars a year. It was ridiculous. I was only 27 years old and I had all that responsibility and stress. Eventually, it led to a mental and physical breakdown. I lost everything and I became homeless at age 28. I moved on to my mate’s lounge. I now think that God was trying to show me about certainty that I was never in control, and I never had been, no matter how high I’d climbed the tree. A few months later, I started asking everyone I knew about the meaning of life. What did they believe in? Where was the book? How did they know? I was hungry for meaning. Then I met Janelle, through a friend. We went on a date, and I told her I was trying to figure out the meaning of life. She told me that she was a Christian and she invited me to church. I said, ‘No way, I’d never go to church. They’re a bunch of hypocrites.’ We were very honest with each other. A few months later, she invited me to a carol sing-a-long. I went and afterwards, I talked to the minister for two hours. I was getting all the answers I’d been hassling people for. He invited me to have lunch with him and we kept meeting, weekly. We became friends. Janelle went overseas. After a while, the minister and I started reading the Gospel of Mark together. But it didn’t really click. Then he asked me to do [evangelistic course] ‘Christianity Explained’. I said I wasn’t ready to make a commitment, but I went anyway. We got up to the page on condemnation. I can still remember it. There was a black and white line drawing of a group of people shunning their faces from the glory of God. Suddenly, I was an absolute, blubbering, out-of-control mess, on the floor. It happened in a split second. I was stripped bare before a holy God. It was an absolutely powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit. I became aware of my sin for the first time, and I totally understood the grace of God the incredible mercy of God that he should forgive me and save me, through Jesus. It was beautiful! Everything changed in an instant. The first verse I memorised was Philippians 4:6-7, ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.’ Before that, I’d always been anxious and striving. I couldn’t cope with uncertainty. But I read that verse and I prayed and I read the Bible (all the way through, twice!) And I felt peace, every time I prayed. It transcended understanding! And now, I love uncertainty. I can’t tell you what God has done since then. It’s been exponentially better than anything I could have imagined. Janelle and I got married. We had two kids and we went off to Cambodia, as missionaries. And now, even in tough times, uncertainty doesn’t faze me. I know that God is sovereign. And he’s got it!