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News! News! News! All-Age Service: Starting on Sunday 3rd February 2008 at 9:00am at St. Andrews Berwick. This will be a contemporary style of worship service that the 10:30am service and will be held in the Fellowship room. Book Stall: The next book stall will be held at St Andrew's on Saturday 16th February, from 8:00am to 12:00 noon. Start of Lent: Lent starts on Wednesday 6th February and we will celebrate with a Communion service at St Andrew's at 7:30pm. Everyone is welcome. See Worship Service for details of Lent Service times. Ministry Team: Our ministry team comprises Rev John Payne minister to the Congregations of Berwick and Officer and assisting is Rev John Haysey is Minister in Association. Thursday of each week is Rev John Payne's day off. Uniting Church to Purchase Union Church Officer: At a recent joint Church Council and Presbytery meeting it was agreed the Uniting Church should purchase the Union Church site in Officer and the Officer Task Group to develop a plan for Officer for the next 10 years keeping open the options available with VicUrban and Uniting Age Care.
Welcome...	Our Vision and Call to Action
At St Andrews we are a diverse congregation of different ages cultures and backgrounds. We are an active friendly group of people of all ages who enjoy the warm friendly, caring surrounding of St Andrew's. If you are considering checking us out please come along and enjoy the friendly caring environment. We have a large number of fellowship groups and activities for Christian development and there is always something happening at St Andrew's. Our minister Rev. John Payne is our full time minister at St Andrew's and is working with the congregations of Berwick and Officer to take up the challenges of Mission and Ministry during 2008. This will become a team Ministry parish with the addition of a future half time placement with focus on Officer. (See Officer Page for some details about the developments at Officer.) We are a Christian community so please give us a call or just drop in and make yourself known to our Minister or to one of the Elders. Please take time to check out our web site which details our colorful history, the times and places of worship, the current activities, and groups that St Andrew's and Officer has to offer as a means of Christian fellowship and mission outreach.	Our Vision is to:- Be a visible, worshipping community, Be a welcoming congregation Be a faith-nurturing congregation, involving all
	Our Call to Action is to:- Be active in the local community, especially with those on the fringes. Listen to others sensitively, responsibly and with love. Make a commitment to sharing the Good News.

This year at St Andrew's, we are starting a regular 9:00am all-age contemporary Worship service as well as our traditional 10:30am Worship service in Berwick.

Read all about it in our Minister's Letter