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Centenary Uniting Church website.
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Weekly Worship Services
(see link to worship on menu bar for more information)
9am traditional worship
with hymns, bible readings and a sermon
followed by morning tea (Holy Communion is celebrated on each 1st Sunday of the month)
At 10:30am, a contemporary service using
guitars, keyboards and drums for music.
1pm Tongan Service
2:30pm Chinese Service - service in Mandarin
(see 'worship' page for more information on our worship services)
Mothers' Day Service , 9 May, 2010, Special Service at 9am only
You are most welcomed to attend any of our worship services.

NEWS
Lap Quilts-
"THANKYOU" to all who gave their time to knitting the squares. One square being
joined with many others has made the lives the quilts have gone to a little
warmer and encouraging to keep going.
13 lap quilts were very kindly knitted and sew
together by the playgroup ladies. Centenary craft group and the congregation
help with time and practical help. A Morning Tea was held on the 23rd June at
Centenary where the quilts were received by a support worker from the "Thelma
Brown Cottage-Parramatta mission".
Christmas Hampers
Continuing our relationship with the Thelma
brown Cottage (refuge for women and children of domestic violence, we are
compiling hampers to give practical and compassionate help as most of these
families leave their homes with nothing.
Please read the playgroup link for further
information or Linda at the Church Office 9683 5023 or 0407 123 403.
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Parenting Group
for parents with children 0-6 months. The group covers topics on feeding, sleeping, safety in the home, speech
development and more.
Bookings through Parramatta Community Health Service
9843 3218
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Parenting
Courses
offered throughout the year at Centenary Uniting Church, run by Uniting Care
Burnside, looking at parenting skills, coping with young children. Some
childcare available.
Bookings essential on
9843 6222
Courses include:
Dealing with Sibling Rivalry
123 Magic - discipline that works with 2-10 year olds
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Minister at Centenary Uniting,
Parramatta -
My name is Barnabas
(Bong Gun) KIM. I am the minister at Centenary
Uniting Church
in North Parramatta.
I was born in Korea in 1960, married Esther in
1983 and have two boys, Samuel 23, Moses 17.
I am an Asian
middle-aged married male migrant minister in the Uniting
Church in Australia. Growing up in Korea
I experienced the cultures of Confucianism, Buddhism, Shamanism, and
Christianity, all which have impacted on who I am.
I came to
Australia in 1999 and have
been living in Sydney
for seven and half years, which means I am a
Korean-Australian in this multi-cultural and multi-religious society. My
identity as a Korean-Australian affects how I see things. It becomes a struggle
to form a personal
identity but it is also a strength as it helps me relate to
others from different cultural backgrounds and experiences. Living in multicultural and multi-faith Australia, so different to Korea, certainly has affected how I
understand life’s meaning.
As a
human being and a minister, I am always contemplating the questions: “Who am I?
What is the meaning of life? Who is God? What is the nature of the Church? What
is the true meaning of religion?” And I have not found the exact answer, I have just begun to understand a little.
If you
are interested in exploring these questions with me and others, you are
welcome, whoever you are, to come along on a Sunday morning - worship services
are at 9am
and 10:30am or give me a ring on 9683 5023
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Community and Family Worker at Centenary Uniting,
Parramatta -
My name is Linda Ikaunieks
. I am the 'Community and Family Worker' at Centenary
Uniting Church
in North Parramatta.
I am married to Karl (2004) and have two sons, Phillip 25 and Scott 22, to a previous marriage.
I am Australian, although I was born in South Africa, and migrated here with my family in 1961.
Living with two cultures (Australian and Afrikaans) has helped to shape my multicultural worldview which sees God’s diversity in humankind and creation and praises Him for the rich layers He has given. I have a background in Aged Care as a Manager of a 40 bed Hostel. I have also just completed my Post Graduate Diploma in Christian Counselling at Wesley Institute.
I bring this knowledge and my desires to know the Lord more fully to my role within Centenary Uniting Church. Christ's love and compassion to those that He encountered encourages us,
to find ways to love and help others. Creating a community that is both inward
and outward looking. The Playgroups and Conversation English classes listed below are just
two areas that my ministry will be focusing on.