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Dear friends, As we journey through Holy Week, let us enter into the events we commemorate as a way to encounter God anew. Holy Week is about beginnings as well as endings. We grieve at the fire that burned down the spire of Notre Dame in Paris. We struggle with […]

Dear friends, This Sunday is Palm Sunday, and marks Jesus’ journey into Jerusalem, and the beginning of Holy Week. While people lined the streets shouting Hosanna, Jesus knew this journey would be one marked with suffering. Too often we jump quickly from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, without journeying through […]

Dear friends, I was very blessed to be in Japan recently and witnessed the blooming of the sakura. It reminded me of what Jesus said: “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it […]

“From all this grief and loss, we pray that a greater love will blossom” Free Community Church 24 March 2019

Dear friends, Grief and loss. These are experiences that we cannot run away from in life. In the past few weeks, we have heard news of great grief and great loss – the Ethiopian Airlines crash on 10 March, and the shootings at the mosques in Christchurch 5 days later […]

Dear friends, We are very excited to announce that we will be holding our very first Mandarin Witness Worship Service this coming Sunday at FCC! We will still be having our regular English service at 10:30am and the Mandarin service will be at 2:30pm. Our Mandarin-speaking fellowship has been growing […]

As we enter into the season of Lent today, i want to share with you something by Barb Morris titled “A letter from God to her daughter.” Dear Daughter, On Ash Wednesday, if you’re in church, the minister will invite you to the observance of a “holy Lent” and mark […]