Getting ready to move

Well it's Christmas Eve and our house is full of boxed-up goodies...  a few Christmas presents waiting to be opened and a whole stack of boxes waiting to be transported to our new home.  We will be moving to Perth in 4 days time to begin a new chapter of our lives.  It'll be a huge thing for our kids - who have only ever had one home in a small town - to be moving to the big (by our standards!) city.

I must admit that the even though we have been moving toward this for the last 18 months, the process of saying goodbye and packing up over the last few weeks, in amongst the busyness of Christmas and end-of-year stuff, has been completely draining.  The weird thing is that as a pastor I feel like I should be looking out for how others are feeling with a pretty tough agricultural year and other things going on for them, including our departure (for those that might miss us ;-)

Anyhow, after we move we'll have some holidays before I take up my new position at the Kingsley Church of Christ.  I'm not expecting to do any blogging, and I certainly won't be posting any sermons over the next month or so! 

So have a blessed Christmas and remember to make it Christ-mas and not just me-mas or family-and-friends-mas!!

Final Challenges to our Church Family

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In his second-last sermon as Pastor of the Narembeen Church of Christ, Mike Birch revisits some foundational principles of how members of a church family are to help one another to grow up into Christ.