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24.01.2022 This Sunday, 20th September, members of Plentylife will be participating in International Justice Mission's Freedom Sunday as we gather online at 10am for a worship service. Members of Zest, one of our missional communities with a heart for justice, will be sharing with us about their involvement in justice and mercy ministry, particularly with IJM. We'll be continuing our focus on justice all of next week by letting you know about some organisations you can support that work to help free people from slavery. We hope you can join us for this special event please let us know by private message if you need the Zoom link for our service.

24.01.2022 Thinking about joining Alpha Online @ Plentylife? Follow the link to hear Robyn's Alpha story and please get in touch if you would like to join us on Sunday (details are at the end of the video). https://youtu.be/2h6hnQHHDhw

24.01.2022 As we settle into Stage 4 Restrictions here in Metro Melbourne, our missional communities have devised some creative and fun ways for us to engage with one another online this weekend. You'll find everything here from baking to dancing to dressing up to brunch. Send us a message if you would like further information about any of the gatherings below, or if you would like to chat or pray through what Stage 4 restrictions mean for you and your family. Stay safe out there!

23.01.2022 Have you signed up for our Trivia Night? Do you have something we can auction? Do you know how many Anglicans it takes to change a lightbulb?... RSVP for our annual Trivia Night (on Zoom) at the link below and contact [email protected] if you nee more details.

23.01.2022 Join us tonight for a COVID-safe Christmas Eve carols service at 5:30pm on the grassed area behind the Hazel Glen College Kinder. Please bring your own chairs/blankets and remember to check-in on arrival. You can also join us via Zoom using our usual link. Please get in touch if you need any further details.

23.01.2022 Plentylife have some fantastic opportunities over the next few weeks to gather together online for worship and sharing. This coming Sunday, July 19th, we have our worship service at 10am, during which we will explore how the story of Abraham and Isaac points us to Jesus as well as sharing in communion. Then that same evening at 7pm we will launch Alpha Online @ Plentylife with an information session.... Finally, for those new to Plentylife who might like to know more about our principles and practices, please join us for 'Plentylife 101'details are below. Be sure to get in touch if you have any further questions or need our Zoom link.

22.01.2022 This weekend members of Plentylife will be gathering online as missional communities. There is everything from fitness sessions to Devonshire Teas being planned, so be sure to get in touch with any of the leaders below if you would like to be involved.

20.01.2022 Tomorrow Plentylife is gathering at the HGC Kinder from 10am to worship as a whole church and continue our series on the book of Philippians. We'll be meeting under the alcove outside, so bring along your chairs and picnic blankets :) We'll also be celebrating our birthday over coffee and fudge, available free from 930am and throughout the morning (with thanks to Katrina from For Fudge Sake) Looking forward to a wonderful, and delicious, time together!

20.01.2022 Good evening, friends. This coming weekend our missional communities have some fabulous online gatherings that you are warmly invited to join they include everything from baking to gallery tours to story times. You can find out more on our calendar on our website just follow the link below and then click on the burgundy coloured 'Missional Community Weekend' tab on Sunday 13th September. And while you're there, you might also want to take a peek at the details for our Tri...via Night that's happening THIS Saturday night, 12th September, from 7:30pm-9pm. https://plentylife.org.au/calendar/

19.01.2022 Hello friends. Our latest blog post has been published, offering continued encouragement during these difficult times. https://plentylife.org.au//24/while-our-hearts-are-at-home/

19.01.2022 Do you know someone who has questions about faith? Who is open to spiritual matters? Who is seeking to find out more about what Christians believe? Invite them to join us on Sunday the 19th of July to find out how Alpha Online @ Plentylife might help them explore their questions, all from the safety and comfort of their home. Send us a message or see our Event listing if you would like more details.

19.01.2022 There is lots happening at Plentylife this week, but for those looking ahead to next weekend our missional communities will be gathering online for a variety of activities. Some are listed below, be sure to get in touch for the full range of options.

18.01.2022 Good morning, friends. Our latest blog post is here and provides some encouragement, as well as a few fun facts about butterflies, for your Friday. https://plentylife.org.au/2020/07/10/metamorphosis/

18.01.2022 Good morning! As we hurtle towards the shortest day of the year, we are also hurtling towards the next instalment of our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' teaching series. You are warmly invited to join us in our 10am online worship service this coming Sunday, June 21st, to hear more, as well as participate together in music, communion and creative responses to what God is saying to us. We look forward to having you with us!

18.01.2022 Good evening, friends. Locals may wish to know that there is now a pop-up COVID-19 testing site at Woodland Waters Reserve in Waterview Drive, Mernda. The site is open for drive-through testing 7 days a week from 9:30am-4:30pm. Stay safe and if you have any symptoms please do get tested! https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/getting-tested-coronavirus-covi

18.01.2022 Members of Plentylife have set aside this coming Saturday, 19th September, as a day for prayer. There will be two Zoom gatherings, 9:30am-11am and 2pm-3pm, and we hope that this will be a time of encouragement and refreshing as we join together and pray. Please let us know if you need the Plentylife Zoom link. If you can't join is at these times, we would encourage you to spend some time with God during your day, perhaps while out for exercise or as a family over dinner.

18.01.2022 As June comes to a close there is much to reflect upon. After a short hiatus, our blog is back to providing us with regular food for thought. Our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' teaching series is also generating plenty of conversation and you can join in this Sunday, July 5th, at 10am on Zoom to hear the next instalment. We also invite you to be in prayer regarding our upcoming Alpha Online course, starting Sunday July 19th. See our Facebook Event for further details. https://plentylife.org.au/2020/06/27/that-we-may-have-peace/

17.01.2022 Thank you to everyone for making our trivia night a super fun event! Thanks to Lia and Craig for hosting! Congrats to all our highest bidders! And especially to our 2020 winners, Unbalanced Please dont forget to pay into these bank details:... BSB: 633000 Acc No: 142491679 Reference "Trivia Night [surname]" If you had guests in your home please ensure all the contact details are emailed to Anne by Monday 29th June.

15.01.2022 This coming Sunday, August 2nd, members of Plentylife will meet as a whole church for a worship service during which we will continue our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' teaching series with a study of the Psalms. You are warmly invited to Zoom in with us at 10am - please get in touch if you need the Zoom link.

15.01.2022 This coming weekend we will be moving away from our weekly online worship services to allow our missional communities the chance to connect. Below is a list of our current groups, along with their visions and contact numbers. Do get in touch if you would like any further information about missional communities. Missional Communities: Balance: Helping families live in a healthy balance between work, rest and play as they follow the ways of Jesus. (Contact Leigh: 0429 138 932)... Home Base: Being good news to the elderly by bringing church to local nursing homes. (Contact Jeannie: 0410 123 567) KINect: Building family relationships by having fun together. (Contact Anne: 0407 223 905) Love Thy Neighbour: Making disciples of Jesus by extending our hands in service and friendship to those in Mernda and Doreen seeking to meet their practical and spiritual needs. (Contact Nola: 0433 055 694) Thrive: Connecting with the Mill Park community. (Contact Sandy: 0403 362 003) Xinc: Showing hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees and those looking for belonging through monthly luncheons. (Contact Craig: 0430 505 593) Zest: Building family with wisdom and love in Whittlesea and beyond. (Contact Kylie: 0408 178 082)

15.01.2022 Do you have a catchy name suggestion for our monthly newsletter? Get your ideas in by 5pm today, Monday 14th September!! Don't forget, the prize is a Rivers Devonshire tea delivered to your door. Suggestions can be emailed to [email protected] or added to this post. Comments after 5pm will not be included.

13.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS: Plentylife has a Spotify account! If you want to re-listen to any of the music used in the services for our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' teaching series then head on over to our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' playlist (link below). Stay tuned for more playlists. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HVc14nDw5rbhL4qU5XSod

13.01.2022 Hello friends. As Term Three gets underway with our kids yet again studying from home, Jeannie will be running an encore session at 8pm tonight about enriching home-based learning. There will be a chance to reflect on what has worked in the past...and what hasn't...as well as the opportunity to ask questions. Please send us a private message if you need the Zoom link.

13.01.2022 Good evening everyone. Don't forget that this coming Monday, June 22nd, we are hosting our 'Check-out Church' gathering. Details are below - we'd love to meet you and answer your questions!

11.01.2022 Hi everyone. As part of our worship service this morning we joined (virtually) with other congregations across Melbourne to pray for our city. If you would like to take some time to pray that God's hope and healing be released into your wider communities, Stairway Church have provided some resources here (including the video we used during our service): https://www.stairway.org.au/prayerformelbourne

11.01.2022 There is one week to go until we launch Alpha Online @ Plentylife. We invite you to continue to pray with us as we prepare for the course and consider who it is that God might be prompting us to invite.

10.01.2022 Over our MC weekends well be providing a variety of different reflections that will bring us encouragement from the Scriptures. Wed encourage you to listen to them in your families, or within your missional communities, and discuss what it could look like to live out the teaching and insights they contain. This first reflection (link below) is based on 1 John 4 and focuses on the importance of knowing and living out the love of God. https://plentylife.org.au//reflection-on-1-john-4-craig-o/

10.01.2022 As you are aware, Stay at Home restrictions are now in place in metropolitan Melbourne for the next six weeks, which includes our municipality. Further details on what this includes can be found here: https://www.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-covid-19-restrictions-vi. While we had been looking forward to reconnecting physically, we are obviously no longer able to do so. Missional communities will instead be meeting in other ways, either over Zoom or by connecting over the phone. Th...is is no doubt difficult news for many and there may well be a sense of grief over the roll-back. We are here for you. Please do get in touch with any of our leaders if you'd find it helpful to process this change and receive some prayer. 'Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.' Ephesians 3:20-21.

10.01.2022 We're re-advertising our Administrator position and extending the closing date for applications to Friday 16th April. Do get in touch if you'd like to know more, and feel free to share :)

10.01.2022 The calendar has flipped from August to September, which means our latest newsletter has been published. This month's edition focuses on kids so grab a cuppa and have a read here: https://plentylife.org.au//09/Newsletter-September-2020.pdf

10.01.2022 Tomorrow morning, Sunday December 20th, at 10am members of Plentylife will be gathering for our final worship service for the year. Weather permitting, we will be meeting on the Hazel Glen College Kinder oval please bring chairs, picnic rugs and elements for communion and be sure to check-in as you arrive. Please send us a message if you have any queries or concerns.

09.01.2022 Mark Sunday the 19th of July in your diaries: Alpha Online is coming to Plentylife. Stay tuned for more details.

07.01.2022 Here in Victoria we might have made a return to having only five visitors to our homes, but provided your home has a screen and some connectivity then you can join ALL of us for our upcoming online gatherings! Saturday 27th June: Join us for our Annual Trivia Night on Zoom! The details can be found in the attached event. Sunday Worship Service: Join us at 10am on Sunday the 28th of June as we look at how the Old Testament story of Melchizedek points us towards Jesus. ... And mark your diaries with our Alpha Online course that will commence with an information night on Sunday the 19th of July. Stay warm and we'll see you (online) really soon!

06.01.2022 Come join us today as we gather to give thanks to the One who gave His life for us all. 10am at the HGC Kinder, or on Zoom.

06.01.2022 At 10am this coming Sunday, August 16th, we will be continuing our series on 'The Emmaus Road Experience' where we are exploring how the Old Testament points us towards Jesus. Craig will bring us a reflection from Exodus 3:1-15, we will share in communion, and there will also be an opportunity for us to respond to what we believe God is saying to us. Send us a message if you need the Zoom link we hope you can join us.

05.01.2022 It's not too late to RSVP for Alpha Online @ Plentylife that starts with an introductory evening at 7pm this coming Sunday, July 19th. Send us a message if you need any further information.

05.01.2022 Holy Week, which extends from today, Palm Sunday, until Easter, next Sunday, is a time of great significance as we follow Jesus through the days leading up to His trial, crucifixion and triumphant resurrection. You're invited to participate in this week through a number of special Plentylife gatherings... FRIDAY MORNING 10am - we'll hold a special service at the HGC Kinder involving a number of art-based contemplative stations, Scripture, music, communion and teaching. ... FRIDAY EVENING 8pm - we'll host ONLINE (on our Zoom account) a liturgical Good Friday service as we enter into the sense of loss and waiting of those first disciples through prayer and reflection. SUNDAY MORNING 10am - we'll celebrate Jesus's resurrection at with music, prayers and teaching, and engage with an uplifting all-age story called "The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross". And afterwards we'll have our traditional Easter Egg hunt! Please message if you’d like to know more, and may you know God’s leading and peace with you throughout this very special week.

04.01.2022 It's Friday! Are the weeks going by quickly or slowly for you at the moment? Either way, we hope you can join us on Zoom this Sunday, September 6th, at 10am for our next worship service. We'll hear a reflection on Exodus 16:1-18 as we continue to explore how the Old Testament points us towards Jesus. Perhaps you'd like to listen to our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' playlist on Spotify while you read the Exodus passage ahead of Sunday. And please send us a private message if you need the Zoom link. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HVc14nDw5rbhL4qU5XSod

03.01.2022 Our Walk Through Bethlehem interactive art stations are now live at four locations in Doreen. Local artist, David Jack, has produced four stunning nativity scenes that are each accompanied by a video, the links to which you'll find at each station. We invite you to join us as we journey together through the story of the very first Christmas. Use the map below to help plan your Walk Through Bethlehem.

02.01.2022 It's the start of a new month which means it's time to get our monthly newsletter into your hands. Please find attached our August Newsletter with all the upcoming dates for our August gatherings, as well as highlights from some of our ongoing activities.

02.01.2022 As we face the challenge of a return to remote learning in the coming week we again want to support parents in providing insight and encouragement. To this end Jeannie Bowen will be hosting another "Home Based Learning" Workshop and Forum this coming Tuesday 21st July from 8pm. To register your interest and get the Zoom link email Craig for the Zoom link on [email protected]

02.01.2022 As well as our Big Night In tonight, members of Plentylife are meeting online as missional communities this weekend. Click on the burgundy link on the calendar on our website for all of the details: https://plentylife.org.au/calendar/

02.01.2022 Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King! From our Plentylife family to your family, we wish you a very merry Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

01.01.2022 Since COVID restrictions prevent us from having our annual Big Night Out, this Saturday, 26th September, at 7:30pm we are gathering together online for a Big Night In of fun and entertainment. That means it's time to start planning your outfit and purchasing your wine and cheese!

01.01.2022 We've hit the halfway mark! Halfway through Stage 4 Restrictions (hopefully) and halfway through our 'The Emmaus Road Experience' teaching series. Hopefully Stage 4 Restrictions will finish first... In the meantime, do join us online next Sunday, August 31st, at 10am as we look at what the story of The Passover (Exodus 12) can teach us about Jesus. And stay tuned, as we have some fun events coming up in September to keep you company at home while we continue to work together as a community to fight against the spread of COVID19. Stay safe!