1. Welcome to the last MtE update for the year!
2. CHRISTMAS DAY – 9.30. Please come a little earlier if you can; this helps us move families together to fit more people in under the C-19 seating requirements (see further below on worship on-site and streamed). Services from Sunday December 27 onwards will be at 10.00.
3. Christmas services information
4. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
5. Christmas Day readings are from the Christmas I set; the readings for Sunday December 27 are details of the readings are available here;

Worship

1. Worship update Worship is now a gathered service in the church buildings. The services are also being live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.

You’re most welcome to join us at our Christmas celebrations this year!

Sunday December 20 (Advent 4, morning worship): a service of Advent carols and readings with Eucharist, 10am.

Christmas Eve (afternoon and evening): (we have no Christmas Eve services at Mark the Evangelist, but commend the Christmas Eve service at St Mary’s Anglican Church: 11.30pm Christmas Eve Midnight Mass).

Christmas Day: Worship with Eucharist, 9.30am

Normal services will continue, 10am, on December 27 and throughout January.

ALL SERVICES at MtE are presently being live-streamed from the designated start time, and are available later as a recording: details from streaming link on the Home Page

1. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
2. This Sunday December 13 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; we will pick up themes from Isaiah 61 and Psalm 126.

Worship

1. Worship update Worship is now a gathered service in the church buildings. The services are also being live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.

1. There will be a Congregational meeting on this Sunday December 6 to consider the 2021 budget and mission and ministry focuses for next year.
2. The most recent Synod eNews (Dec 3)
3. A first conversation about a proposed justice and peace group spanning inner-city UCA congregations will be held on Monday Dec 7 at 7.30pm via Zoom. If you would like the meeting details (Zoom link) or more information, please contact Craig.
4. The Hotham Mission Christmas appeal is now open; for more information, see here.
5. Worship update Worship this Sunday December 6 will be a gathered service in the church buildings. The service will also be live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS (from outside the usual membership) who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.
6. This Sunday December 6 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; our focus text will be Isaiah 40.

1. The most recent Synod eNews (Nov 19)
2. Worship update: Worship this Sunday November 29 will be our first fully-gathered service since the March shut-down. The service will also be live-streamed, with the links to this stream accessible from the congregational home page. We have sufficient space to accommodate those members of the congregation who would like to attend the service. VISITORS who would like to attend should register their interest and can be admitted only up to the maximum number allowed in the building. Visitors should register their interest prior to the service by contacting the minister via his email address on the contact page. We ask for your understanding should we not be able to admit you on the day.
3. There will be a Congregational meeting on December 6 to consider the 2021 budget and mission and ministry focuses for next year.
4. This Sunday November 29 we move into the season of Advent; details of the readings are available here; our focus text will be Isaiah 64

1. TONIGHT NOVEMBER 17 — an online concert featuring Donald Nicolson: Details
2. Worship update Worship this Sunday November 22 will be a live-streamed service. This means that the service will commence at 10.00 am on our YouTube channel; you’ll find the links on the MtE homepage and can arrive ‘early’, ready for the start. You will either need to tune in at that time, or wait until the service is finished, at which time you will be able to view the recording of that service. (And, as with normal gathered services, you can also ‘arrive late’ in the live version, and simply slip in at the point the live service is up to!). We presently expect that the November 29 service will be a gathered service in the church building, also live-streamed for those who cannot yet join us in the building.
3. There will be a Congregational meeting on December 6 to consider the 2021 budget and mission and ministry focuses for next year.
4. This Sunday November 22 we mark the festival of the Reign of Christ (Christ the King) with Bruce Barber as our preacher. We will hear most of the set readings in the weekly lectionary (Ezekiel 34 replaced by Daniel 12.1-4a); see here for more details. 
5. A brief account of the ministry of the saint(s) commemorated this Sunday can be found here November 19 – Mechtild of Magdeburg

1. The most recent Synod eNews (Nov 5)
2. The most recent Presbytery News is here (Nov 6)
3. Worship update: Church council hopes that we will be able to return to gathered worship on Sunday November 29, subject to a range of COVID-Safe measures being in place. The service on Nov 22 will likely be a live broadcast from the church on that Sunday morning, and perhaps also Nov 15. We will update this news as the dates are confirmed! 
4. For those who need access to such things, the new UCA lectionary document for 2020-21 is now available, here.
5. This Sunday November 8 we continue with the set readings in the weekly lectionary. See here for more details (we’ll focus on the gospel reading again this week). 
6. A brief account of the ministry of the saint(s) commemorated this Sunday can be found here November 4 – Soren Kierkegaard

Old News

1. A two-day (November 13,14) online seminar on the gospel of Mark might be of interest to some of you: detai

Advance Dates

1. Congregational meeting Dec 6

1. News from the Justice and International Mission Cluster  (Oct 26)
2. This Sunday November 1 we continue with the set readings in the weekly lectionary. See here for more details (we’ll focus on the gospel reading again this week). 
3. A brief account of ministry of the saint(s) commemorated this Sunday can be found here October 31 – Reformers, All Souls, All Saints

Old News

1. A two-day (November 13,14) online seminar on the gospel of Mark might be of interest to some of you: detai