Worship - Manning Uniting Church

We worship as a community at Manning Uniting Church every Sunday at 9.30am. All are welcome.

Our Worship Service involves participation, both formally and informally. Music, singing, words and images are part of our worship.

Holy Communion is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of the month. The offer to share in the Lord's meal of bread and wine/juice is open to anyone "who loves the Lord and wants to love Jesus more".

Following the service everyone is invited for a cuppa and to enjoy conversation and community time in the auditorium.

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WORSHIP @ Manning Uniting Church 8 June 9.30am

This will be a Pentecost service - but given that our worship will be taking place in the middle of a Flood Recovery Centre, it will also be a service of reflection and prayer, lament and hope, for the many human and non-human lives affected by the floods across our region. Led by Rev Claire Wright, who has served as Chaplain in the Taree Evacuation and Recovery Centres over the last two weeks. All welcome.

Pentecost celebrates the birth of the church. The day when Jesus fulfilled His promise of sending to his followers the Spirit of God to be with them and in them. This coming of God as the Holy Spirit was marked by the sounds and signs of God’s power – a power which enabled them to carry out the task of taking the good news to the ends of the earth. God’s Spirit still empowers Christians today to share and show the love of God and bring people into His kingdom. This promise is for young and old, men and women and ‘for your children‘ (see Acts 2 verses 17-18 and 39). The story is found in Acts chapter 2.

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ALTERNATE WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

On-line Church: Use on-line or downloadable worship resources – such as uca.org.au (Presbytery): The Mid North Coast Presbytery Sunday service is now merged with the Port Uniting service. In your web browser: uca-nswact.zoom.us/j/708240593– or in the Zoom app, Meeting ID: 708 240 593. Virtual ‘mingling’ from 8.30am, with the service beginning at 9.00 am. All welcome. Don’t forget that these services are recorded, and you can find them if you go to the MNC website: www.midnorthcoast.uca.org.au The sermons from previous weeks are available on the Port Macquarie Uniting Sunday morning worship Youtube channel
https://saltbushcommunity.uca.org.au/the-word-around-the-bush/(Saltbush services), rootsontheweb.com (‘Worship at Home’), pray-as-you-go.org (Daily Devotionals) – or UCA services that are live-streamed or posted on-line each week (https://nswact.uca.org.au/covid-19-information-for-presbyteries-and-congregations/livestream-options-for-worship-during-covid-19/
Watch ABC-TV's Songs of Praise at 11.30am Sundays (or on-demand), and browse through your own library of Bible study booklets, worship CDs and so on.