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

Sunday December 21 (Advent 4, morning worship): a service of Advent carols and readings with Eucharist, 10am.

We have no Christmas Eve (night of the 24th) services at Mark the Evangelist, but commend the Christmas Eve service at St Mary’s Anglican Church: (11pm Carols by the Crib and 11.30pm Midnight Mass ) or Wesley Uniting Church, Lonsdale Street at 9pm.

Christmas Day (Thursday 25th): Worship with Eucharist, 9.30am

Normal services will continue, 10am, on December 28 and throughout January; see the calendar for details

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

 

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday December 14, we will welcome Sesi Taunga, one of our UCA ministry candidates at Pilgrim College, as our guest speak. Focus texts will be from Isaiah and Matthew.
• And… a congregational meeting will follow worship this week.
• Sunday December 21 will feature our annual Advent Carols and Readings service
• Christmas Day service will be at 9.30am
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Assembly President’s Christmas message
• Most recent Assembly news (December 10)
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after Faith:
  • Recent sermons
  • New Theological Fragments (82-89): Resurrection II

Advance Notice – Other

• The inaugural Wesley Centre Theology and Culture Conference on the topic of Gendered Violence.

Other things which might interest

• Previous sermons and services (video recordings)
• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• This Sunday; our focus text will be from Matthew 3.
• 2025 Inaugural Langmore Oration with Sam Roggeveen
  • Date: Wednesday 10th December 2025, Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm in the Venue: Arts West Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
  • The Langmore Oration is FREE but registration is essential. The Initiative for Peacebuilding proudly presents the Langmore Oration, honouring the vision and achievements of Professor John Langmore AM, in developing the concept of the Initiative for Peacebuilding, and his lifelong advocacy for peace, equity, and global cooperation.
  • The inaugural address, “War and Peace in Asia’s New Order: Australia’s Duty,” will be delivered by Sam Roggeveen, Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute and author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace. Drawing on his extensive experience in strategic analysis and international security, Sam will explore Australia’s role in promoting peace amid intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, asking how stability can be sustained without escalating conflict. The event will be moderated by Professor Erika Feller AO, followed by a Q&A and refreshments in the Atrium
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Justice and International Mission Survey
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after Faith:
  • Recent sermons
  • “An Advent Order“
  • New Theological Fragments (82-89): Resurrection II

Advance Notice – Other

• The inaugural Wesley Centre Theology and Culture Conference on the topic of Gendered Violence.

Other things which might interest

• Previous sermons and services (video recordings)
• MtE (and friends!) study groups

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Coming Soon!

• The season of Advent begins this Sunday; our focus text will be from Matthew.
• Monday December 1, we selected Edge of Life, @ 10.45 am @ Cinema Nova – Edge of Life.
  • The blurb: Intellectually, we all know our lives will end, and yet – in the Western world at least – we act as if death is a mirage, disappearing the closer we move towards it. Two doctors in Australia are using psilocybin to help ease the anguish of their patients at the end of life, and the results they have seen are truly remarkable. But this visioning tool, like other plant medicines, is not new; it comes from ancient traditions. When the doctors’ journey to the Amazon to experience traditional medicines for themselves, they are confronted by realisations they have no explanation for. Is it possible the world’s oldest cultures have something important to teach us, not just about traditional medicines, but about death itself?
  • Meet upstairs in the foyer to buy tickets (or buy them online); coffee is available in the cafe next to the box office, and stay for a toastie lunch and conversation in the cafe afterwards if you can. A WhatsApp group has been set up for communication around this in future; contact Craig to join this.
• The MtE Events Calendar

News

• Most recent Assembly news (November 27)
• Recent posts on Craig’s Faith after Faith:
  • Recent sermons
  • New Theological Fragments (69-82): Jesus’ death as sacrifice (or not)

Advance Notice – Other

• The inaugural Wesley Centre Theology and Culture Conference on the topic of Gendered Violence.

Other things which might interest

• 2025 Inaugural Langmore Oration with Sam Roggeveen (Yep, that Langmore!)
  • Date: Wednesday 10th December 2025, Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm in the Venue: Arts West Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
  • The Langmore Oration is FREE but registration is essential. The Initiative for Peacebuilding proudly presents the Langmore Oration, honouring the vision and achievements of Professor John Langmore AM, in developing the concept of the Initiative for Peacebuilding, and his lifelong advocacy for peace, equity, and global cooperation.
  • The inaugural address, “War and Peace in Asia’s New Order: Australia’s Duty,” will be delivered by Sam Roggeveen, Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute and author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace. Drawing on his extensive experience in strategic analysis and international security, Sam will explore Australia’s role in promoting peace amid intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, asking how stability can be sustained without escalating conflict. The event will be moderated by Professor Erika Feller AO, followed by a Q&A and refreshments in the Atrium
• Previous sermons and services (video recordings)
• MtE (and friends!) study groups