Services
The whole West community gets together every Sunday morning at 144 South Road, Spotswood, New Plymouth.
What can you expect when you come along on a Sunday morning?
We meet every Sunday from 10am, and the sitting-down part of the service goes till around 11 or 11.15. Morning tea is part of our time together, and a highlight everyone stays for, so you’re warmly invited to have a cup of fair trade tea or coffee with us after the formalities.
We have an all-age, all-stage approach to community at West, so our Sunday morning gatherings are designed to be a safe and helpful experience for everyone. Check out the kids page to see what this means for smaller people.
We’re near the end of a series called 7 Sacred Days, helping us to integrate our spirituality with the things we do in the week: work, rest, parenting, home life, retirement. A series on the book of James follows in September-October, before we move into celebrating Movember Men, the guys we love here in Taradise and men who can inspire us from across the world and the centuries. We’ll then focus on the Advent Women who paved the way as we prepare for Christmas.
Other highlights of 2010 services have been:
- 7 Day Jesus, hearing from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew
- High and Holy Days, celebrating ANZAC Day, Fairtrade Fortnight, Mothers’ Day, Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity (phew!)
- 7 Day Heroes, looking at some of the flawed saints we meet in the book of Genesis
You might notice a theme there: in 2010 we are thinking hard about what it means to follow Jesus for all 7 days of the week. How does being a Christian impact our work, parenting, spending, ageing? Come along to West to be part of a safe place to discuss these important questions.
If you’d like to a further idea of what our services are like, feel free to check out the sermons available on this site. You can listen to them on our site, download them or subscribe to them by podcast. Our blog will also give you a flavour of the things that are important to us as a community.
As it says above, you can find us any Sunday morning at 144 South Road in Spotswood, New Plymouth. We’d love to welcome you in person!