News

1. Following worship on Sunday February 27, a workshop on preparing and presenting the prayers of the people. This will focus on a couple of aspects of leading prayers in worship. Those who lead the prayers of the people, and anyone else who is interested, are strongly encouraged to attend. The session will be finished by 12.15.
2. The most recent news from the UCA Assembly (Feb 16)
3. This Sunday February 20 our focus text will be on Luke 6.27: Love your enemies. Backround on this text and others set for the day can be found here

Worship

1. Attendance at gathered services is presently limited to those who demonstrate that they have had two COVID-19 vaccination shots, or that they are exempt from being vaccinated. It will be necessary to provide proof of your vaccination, either prior to the service or on the day at the door, but this only needs to be shown once for recording; please see here for more information. If you presently are unable to attend under these conditions the live-stream is still available from the home page, or please contact Craig or your elder.
2. Mindful of the health-vulnerability of some members of our congregation and the uncertain state of play with respect to the pandemic, the church council has decided that we will continue to wear masks in worship throughout January, except for those who need to remove them when leading the worship, and for morning tea, or who have an exemption from wearing a mask. We have now returned to reception of Holy Communion in both kinds – small communion glasses only.

Advance Notice

1. February 27: Intercessors workshop after worship
2. March 2: Ash Wednesday Service
3. March 20: Bible Readers’ workshop after worship

News

1. Worship this week will be at 10am as usual but will be shortened in view of the congregational workshop to follow.
2. The most recent Synod eNews (Feb 10)
3. The most recent news from the UCA Assembly (Feb 9)
4. The most recent issue of Crosslight (February)
5. This Sunday February 13 we’ll continue to prepare for our futures workshop, which will follow the service. Our focus in recent Sundays has been on readings from the Genesis creation stories to consider the context we’re in, our responsibilities, and so the kind of decision we’re to make about our future. Our focus text this week will be Genesis 2.25-3.10, complemented by Psalm 130.

Worship

1. Attendance at gathered services is presently limited to those who demonstrate that they have had two COVID-19 vaccination shots, or that they are exempt from being vaccinated. It will be necessary to provide proof of your vaccination, either prior to the service or on the day at the door, but this only needs to be shown once for recording; please see here for more information. If you presently are unable to attend under these conditions the live-stream is still available from the home page, or please contact Craig or your elder.
2. Mindful of the health-vulnerability of some members of our congregation and the uncertain state of play with respect to the pandemic, the church council has decided that we will continue to wear masks in worship throughout January, except for those who need to remove them when leading the worship, and for morning tea, or who have an exemption from wearing a mask. We have now returned to reception of Holy Communion in both kinds – small communion glasses only.

Advance Notice

1. February 27: Intercessors workshop after worship
2. March 20: Bible Readers’ workshop after worship

News

1. The most recent news from the UCA Assembly (Feb 2)
2. Two resources coming from the recent city UCA churches’ justice coalition:

“Set them free” video – for potential circulation to congregation members via local email groups

A Vision for a Just Australia – Uniting Church Australia

1. This Sunday February 6 we’ll continue to prepare for our scheduled conversation about our congregational future on Feb 13, Our focus for these Sundays will be three readings from the Genesis creation stories to consider the context we’re in, our responsibilities, and so the kind of decision we’re to make. Last week we considered the “deep” and the “void” in Genesis 1.1-5, next week we’ll look at Genesis 2 (“Eve and Adam”) and on February 13 from Genesis 3 (“naked”).

Worship

1. Attendance at gathered services is presently limited to those who demonstrate that they have had two COVID-19 vaccination shots, or that they are exempt from being vaccinated. It will be necessary to provide proof of your vaccination, either prior to the service or on the day at the door, but this only needs to be shown once for recording; please see here for more information. If you presently are unable to attend under these conditions the live-stream is still available from the home page, or please contact Craig or your elder.
2. Mindful of the health-vulnerability of some members of our congregation and the uncertain state of play with respect to the pandemic, the church council has decided that we will continue to wear masks in worship throughout January, except for those who need to remove them when leading the worship, and for morning tea, or who have an exemption from wearing a mask. We have now returned to reception of Holy Communion in both kinds – small communion glasses only.

News

1. Welcome to the first MtE Update for 2022!
2. The most recent Synod eNews (Jan 27)
3. The most recent news from the UCA Assembly (Jan 26)
4. This Sunday January 30 we’ll take most of the set readings for Epiphany 4C. In antcipated of our scheduled (for the time being, at least!) conversation about our congregational future on Feb 13, we’ll take three readings from the Genesis creation stories to consider the context we’re in, our responsibilities, and so the kind of decision we’re to make. The focus text this week will be Genesis 1.1-5 (“deep and void”), next week from Genesis 2 (“placed”) and then from Genesis 3 (“naked”). See here for comment on the other readings this week.

Worship

1. Attendance at gathered services is presently limited to those who demonstrate that they have had two COVID-19 vaccination shots, or that they are exempt from being vaccinated. It will be necessary to provide proof of your vaccination, either prior to the service or on the day at the door, but this only needs to be shown once for recording; please see here for more information. If you presently are unable to attend under these conditions the live-stream is still available from the home page, or please contact Craig or your elder.
2. Mindful of the health-vulnerability of some members of our congregation and the uncertain state of play with respect to the pandemic, the church council has decided that we will continue to wear masks in worship throughout January, except for those who need to remove them when leading the worship, and for morning tea, or who have an exemption from wearing a mask. We have now returned to reception of Holy Communion in both kinds – small communion glasses only.

Advance Notice

1. February 13: Futures workshop following worship