Update on this Coming Sunday
Brothers and Sisters in Christ!
Greetings from my office at a very empty and lonely Church building! I hope you are all doing well. Isolation and social distancing could be a very confusing experience where we rest yet sometimes feel restless, treasure the time with loved ones and sometimes have quite enough off it, hope and sometimes worry excessively. May we be comforted by the fact that nothing we feel, think, suffer or endure during this time could separate us from the love there is in Jesus Christ.
I am grateful for how our leadership and congregants responded timely and proactively to this situation. In two days time we were able to set up a zoom account to host an online service. This service was well attended by people near and far and the response has been awesome. The fact that we were able to not only broadcast a sermon but a full sermon with duty elders, Dave our musiscian and other congregants participating contributed to its success.
I am proud to announce that City Centre Church now have its own Zoom link. Join us this Sunday at 10 am for a full online service. Have you ever heard of “the four faces of Christ” and the four horsemen of the apocalypse? Is it something to be glad about or scared? Join us Sunday and find out! Download the Zoom App if you don’t have it already. You will join on Sunday via this link:
The meeting code is 435 172 943
By clicking on it, people will be able to join our service on Sunday March 29th at 10 am Pacific time. You will need to download the ZOOM app if you don’t have it already. You can do so by following this link:
https://zoom.us/client/latest/Zoom.pkg
I am also pleased to inform you that Session passed a motion to allow our Church building to be used as an emergency food storage and preparation facility during the Covid 19 time. We are currently in discussion with Brenda Lock about the details of this and will probably commence next week. I myself, having completed my mandatory isolation by then, will be intimately involved with the day to day running of this service. Volunteer opportunities for those who don’t fall in a vulnerable or high risk group might also come up. I will keep you posted.
Meanwhile I encourage you to visit our website and Facebook page and to leave comments and even prayer requests there or send them to me via email. We are called to do everything we can to maintain and strengthen our fellowship and love for each other in whatever way we can during this time.
I wish you a blessed and hope filled Lock-down time! May you, through the grace of Jesus, experience what the doctor in Albert Camus’s “The Plague” articulated so well during a similar time of crises:
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
In Christ
Gabriel J Snyman
March 25th 2020