Dec2014_Dayboro Uniting Church

22 Williams St

(Next to the Post Office)

Pastor Richard Lance 0447 447 945

Sundays 08:30am

(Communion 3rd Sunday)

Christmas Eve

7pm Refreshments on deck

7:30pm Christmas Eve Service

Christmas Day 08:30am at Mt Mee

Tuesdays in term time 09:30am:  Mainly Music

(Music & movement for up to 5yo)

Thursday 1pm:  Card Sharps

Play cards and raise funds for an orphanage in Bolivia.

Fridays 10:00am to 1pm:  Conversation Club

A drop-in morning including great talks and a good (too good  –  see the minister’s waistline!) lunch.

Ask us about home groups held throughout the Dayboro area.

What did those Christmas angels say to the shepherds?  Yep, “Peace on earth”.  And what don’t we have, nor have we ever had for long?  Yep, “Peace on earth”.  And whose fault is it? An easy answer is “Those b****y religious people!” 

While it’s true that religious people, especially Christians to our shame, haven’t been averse to kicking off a war or two (much of our current, er, difficulties are down to political leaders in America, UK and Australia who profess themselves to be Christian) and one brand of Moslem slaughters another, and Sikhs and Hindus and Buddhists are at each others’ throats; the great mass murders of the past century are down to atheist communists and Nazis, to Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

So it’s a problem common to the human condition, and one lot of us is no more or less blame-free than another.  Perhaps those angels gave the shepherds and us a hint when they say, go to a dirty, poor cattle stall, not to Herod’s palace.  Perhaps real peace is found there, in vulnerability not vainglory, in giving not gaining, in self-sacrifice not self-absorption. Anyway, that’s the way God did it at Christmas and on the Cross, whether or not the folk who claim his name go along with it.  And my prayer for Dayboro this Christmas is not that you fill the pews, but that you find the peace.  Happy Christmas!  Oh, and a great New Year.

Pastor Richard Lance 0447 447 945