Weekly Church Services

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More Information On Our Sunday Services

Sunday Celebrations are our opportunity to gather together as a community of people to corporately worship God, share stories, and be inspired and challenged from God's Word. We try to make our services relevant and challenging for people who have followed Jesus for a long time, as well as being a great place for people to explore and discover Christian faith, community and life for the first time. For this reason we offer three services, each with a slightly different feel.

Morning Services 8.45am & 10.30AM

Our 8:45am is what we would call a more "Reflective" Service. This service lasts till 10:00am and includes hymns, older and contemporary choruses. Our worship times are content based and carefully programmed - including reflective readings, testimonies, multimedia presentations etc. The teaching is intentionally Biblical and targeted at mature Christians.

Our 10:30am is seen as a "Family" Service. It typically lasts until 12:00 midday, and includes contemporary worship music ( at medium volume) using drums, guitars and keyboard. The worship aims to strike a balance between programmed material and relatively free times of prophecy and spontaneous praise. The teaching is intentionally Biblical and aims to build bridges between life and faith. In parallel with this service we run a crèche and energetic, high quality childrens program for all preteen ages.

Some Sundays we combine our two morning services and instead have a 10am Celebration service. For us this service becomes a rich time of community where all generations meet to worship God and hear the Word, pray and hear stories of what God is doing in our midst. Please see our events calendar for our next celebration service.

Evening Service

Our 7pm service is our youth service. Anyone is welcome to come though. It typically runs until about 8:30pm but most of the youth just hang-out at our café – which like the service, is run by our youth. The worship is probably what you would deem contemporary with a lot of volume. The style is casual and relaxed with a high level of interaction. Teaching is practical and life-based, rooted in the Bible, but containing a significant and challenging call to commitment. It is also where we hear about opportunities and are inspired by what different ones of our youth are up to. The youth service runs across school holidays too – except over Christmas holidays when we fold – mainly because we are so exhausted because we have gone hard all year.

Hillsborough Baptist Church Timetable (except for the Christmas/New Year Holiday period, refer to the 2011/2012 Christmas/New Year timetable note above)