2025 09 02 Sunday Sermon:
David Newby: When God Calls
[Isaiah 6:1-8; Luke 5:1-11]
Prayers for Peace, Hope and Justice by Rob Minnie.
Cape Town, South Africa
2025 09 02 Sunday Sermon:
David Newby: When God Calls
[Isaiah 6:1-8; Luke 5:1-11]
Prayers for Peace, Hope and Justice by Rob Minnie.
2025 02 02 Sunday Sermon – Covenant Service
Sikawu Makubalo: Covenanting as a Prophetic Alternative Community
[Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30]
Prayers for Peace, Hope and Justice by Sikawu Makubalo
Dear friends,
As we approach our Covenant Service, I invite you to reflect on how the Covenant Prayer is not just a personal act of surrender but also a powerful call to join God in the work of transformation and justice. Under the Conference theme “Becoming an Alternative Community,” this prayer challenges us to live as God’s people—set apart, courageous, and deeply committed to reflecting God’s Kin-dom in these dark and challenging times.
The Covenant Prayer: An Invitation to Becoming an Alternative Community.
This year may, we hear words of the Covenant Prayer calling us to become an alternative community and inviting us to step into God’s mission with open hearts and hands:
“Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will.”
These words remind us that following God often means serving in unexpected ways and standing with those society overlooks. It’s a call to embrace the values of justice, mercy, and humility, even when it’s uncomfortable.
“Let me be employed by you or laid aside for you.”
We are called to trust God’s purpose, whether in visible acts of justice or quiet, behind-the-scenes support for others.
“Let me have all things, let me have nothing.”
This challenges us to let go of personal ambition or material attachment and instead pursue what truly matters—restoring hope, healing, and dignity to all people.
The Covenant Prayer is bold and challenging, but it is also deeply hopeful. It reminds us that we are not alone—God equips and strengthens us for this work. Together, let us commit to becoming an alternative community that reflects Christ’s love and justice in every area of life.
May the Spirit guide and inspire you as we prepare to renew our covenant with God and step into God’s transformative mission.
Grace and Peace, Sikawu
2025 01 26 Sunday Sermon
Sikawu Makubalo: Proclaiming with Courage the Liberating Good News to the Poor
[Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Luke 4:14-21]
Opening Prayers by Heather Hill.
Prayers for Peace, Hope & Justice by Colin Doyle.
Sunday Sermon: 2025 01 19
Sikawu Makubalo: The Lavish Transformative Grace of God
[Psalm 36:5-10; John 2:1-11]
Opening Prayers by Rob Minnie
Sunday Sermon: 2025 12 01
Sikawu Makubalo Majestic and Relational Voice of God
[Psalm 29; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22]
2025 01 05 Sunday Sermon
Sikawu Makubalo: Living for the Praise of God’s Glory
[Jeremiah 31:7-14; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:10-18]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, wrote a poem ‘Bleak Weather’. Inspired by the poem, Stephen Berg another renowned poet composed the following prayer poem:
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Love, make me bolder.
Bold to take myself less seriously, so to take beauty, kindness, mercy, more seriously.
Bold to recall, under the tyranny of all our applied technology, that we are still in swaddling clothes, still coming into being, that the slow magic of creation is still proceeding.
Bold, in the stricture of our visual culture, to honor the invisible, repose within mystery, and tend the garden of the inner-life.
Bold to hold things loosely. To release what constricts the spirit and sours the soul.
Bold to leave this room, this house, this earth, more caring and hospitable than I found it—grateful for the sublime luck to have touched another soul. And for this to be enough.
Love, make me bolder. Willing to listen with the ear of the heart, to stand under your gaze, and be open to change.
Love, may my actions bear you witness.
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Prayers of grace and peace to everyone, Sikawu.
2024 12 29 Sunday Sermon
Ken Leverton: The Shadow Side of Christmas
[John 1:1-13; Matthew 2:13-18]
2024 12 25 Christmas Day
Sikawu Makubalo: Love Made Flesh
[Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14; Luke 2:1-14]