Category Archives: MtE News

MtE Update – April 1 2021

  1. Our Holy Week and Easter services details are here, including TONIGHT night, Friday morning, Saturday morning and Easter Day. Please note that only the Good Friday and Easter Day services will be live-streamed. Our focus texts on Good Friday will be Mark 15 and Job 23; on Sunday (Easter) the texts will be Job 38 and Mark 16.1-8. Maundy Thursday will feature a reading of St John’s Passion, and Saturday’s service will be a sequence of readings, psalms and hymns.
  2. The most recent Synod eNews (April 1)

Old News

  1. The next study series will be a survey of the New Testament, commencing online after the Easter school holidays, Wednesday night and Friday afternoons. This is a great course using online video (lectures), complemented by printed transcripts. Details of the NT studies can be found here. We are also looking at the possibility of running an online series again on the Old Testament if there is interest

Advance Dates

  1. AGM — April 18, following worship; papers available from April 4.

MtE Update – March 25 2021

  1. News from the Justice and International Mission (March 23)
  2. Our Lenten studies finish up this week. The next study series will be a survey of the New Testament, commencing online after the Easter school holidays, Wednesday night and Friday afternoons. This is a great course using online video (lectures), complemented by printed transcripts. Details of the NT studies can be found here. We are also looking at the possibility of running an online series again on the Old Testament if there is interest
  3. Our Holy Week and Easter services details are here
  4. This coming Sunday March 28, being Passion/Palm Sunday, will feature a reading of the Passion of the Christ according to St Mark, with psalms, hymns, prayers and Eucharist. Some comment on this text (Mark 14-15) can be found here.

Old News

  1. AGM — April 18, following worship

MtE Update – March 18 2021

  1. The most recent Synod eNews (Mar 18)
  2. The most recent Presbytery News is here. (March 16)
  3. See the Hotham Mission home page for information about a new program for young women, at Kensington.
  4. This coming Sunday March 21 we will give Job a rest in view of the baptism to be celebrated, and hear several of the readings set for the day; details and some comment can be found here.

Old News

  1. Lenten study details are now finalised (with a recent, slight change t the presenters!): Wednesdays 10, 17 and 24, and Fridays 12, 19 and 26, and possibly others. The Friday series will be online — easy to get to, and a great conversion! The audio recordings and other materials are available via the above link.

Advance Dates

  1. AGM — April 18, following worship

MtE Update – March 11 2021

  1. Congregational Meeting — THIS SUNDAY March 14, following worship.
  2. WORSHIP UPDATE: From this Sunday March 14 we will only wear facemasks during the singing of the principal hymns (usually at the opening, before communion and at the end). Masking for the quieter communion sung responses will not be necessary. 
  3. News from the Justice and International Mission Cluster  (March 9).
  4. The most recent Synod eNews (Mar 4)
  5. Lenten study details are now finalised (with a recent, slight change t the presenters!): Wednesdays 10, 17 and 24, and Fridays 12, 19 and 26, and possibly others. The Friday series will be online — easy to get to, and a great conversion! The first audio recording is now available via the above link. It’s NOT TOO LATE to join the Friday group for the whole series, or to join in Wednesday nights for the two remaining sessions!
  6. This coming Sunday March 14 worship we will return to more thought about Job (24.1-17), although with a focus on the set gospel reading as a ‘resolution’ of Job’s question. Some background on this week’s readings can be found here.

Advance Dates

  1. AGM — April 18, following worship

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