22nd April 2026 Alpha starts THIS SUNDAY! Our Alpha team are prayed up, ready and beyond excited for the launch of our Term 2 Alpha Course from this Sunday night!! Our 2026 Alpha Host Team The Alpha Course is a warm, non-threatening opportunity to ask the big questions about life, faith and meaning in community together. All around the world, many have found Alpha Course to be deeply encouraging and helpful. You can watch the below trailer to get more of an idea of what is in

Acts || Part 1

15th April 2026 Try Alpha with us Have you ever asked yourself the question "is there more to life than this?" Starting April 26, we are hosting an Alpha course where you can ask and wrestle with this and many more questions about life, faith and meaning. Our Alpha course will be a warm, friendly and open space to connect and explore the big questions of life, faith and meaning together. There is no pressure to speak or to commit to the whole course, first we encourage you

8th April 2026 Thank you Lord! Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. 1 Peter 1:3-4 We are continuing to give great thanks and praise to God for his love expressed through the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus! And we are continuing to praise God for a fabulous Easter Weekend at N

25th March 2026 Generous Worship from Johnny Today we are halfway through 'Holy Week' - the week leading up to the Easter weekend. We read in John 12:1-11 that Jesus shared dinner that Wednesday night with Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Lazarus was the man Jesus raised from the dead, and perhaps partly in response to this, his sister Mary stooped down in the middle of the party and anointed Jesus' feet with expensive perfume, wiping his feet with her hair. Judas is appalled, sayin

Easter Bible Study

25th March 2026 What a Great Sunday! How encouraging was last Sunday!?! Introducing Sarah as our soon to begin Admin staff team member, "meeting" Doug and Michelle in service, lots of visitors across the day, lunch together, youth leaders prepping BAMCAMP, six baptisms and a courtyard dinner to round the day off... we love how God is at work among us, continuing to build a movement of His Church here at NVBC!! A huge thank you to Mink and Joel (and family!) for helping to cat

The Movement Jesus Started || 5

18th March 2026 A Place at the Table from Travis One of the powerful images in the Christian life is the image of a table. Around a table we share meals and stories; we listen, we laugh, and we remember that we have a place of belonging with one another. I can recall many powerful memories of celebrations, shared sorrows, deep encouragements and growing connection that have taken place around a table with friends. Even just today I shared a table with some pastor friends, an

11th March 2026 As We Keep Growing It has been a wonderful and encouraging start to the year together as a church, don't you think!?! We currently have over 110 people working through our SHAPE short course, had 16 present for our first Welcome Lunch of 2026 last Sunday, and have been experiencing a steady stream of those searching for faith or a new church week to week. The upshot of all this is that we have certainly been experiencing fuller than normal AM services on Sunda