1. Lent begins next week with our Ash Wednesday service, 6.45pm in the church/hall.
2. The most recent Presbytery News is here. (Feb 8)
3. The most recent Synod News is here. (Feb 11)
4. A primer on pastoral care conversation is being offered in a neighbouring Presbytery; details here.
5. If you are making use of the online-streamed services, or know someone who is, it would help us to hear from you — how you use it and how it is coming across. Please contact Craig T directly, or let us know via our contact page.
6. Richmond UCA is looking for a new coordinator for the local Ecumenical Food Center; details are here.
7. Carer Respite stays are presently available in some Uniting Church aged care centres: details
8. Lenten studies are planned for the coming season; the dates and details are still being finalised but likely to be over three weeks, Wednesday evenings March 10-24. Watch this space!
9. Job Series On most of the Sundays between Feb 14 and Easter (that is, when Craig is preaching), our focus text will be from the book of Job, reading in tandem with the set gospel for the day. This coming Sunday February 14 we will hear the beginning Job (1.1-12). See here for some more information about Job and the series; some background on this week’s gospel reading can be found. here.

1. News from the Justice and International Mission Cluster  (February 2)
2. The most recent Synod eNews (Feb 4)
3. If you are making use of the online-streamed services, or know someone who is, it would help us to hear from you — how you use it and how it is coming across. Please contact Craig T directly, or let us know via our contact page.
4. Lenten studies are planned for the coming season; the dates and details are still being finalised but likely to be over three weeks, Wednesday evenings March 10-24. Watch this space!
5. This coming Sunday February 7 we will hear some of the set readings for the day, Epiphany 5B, The details of the readings and some commentary are available here; our focus will again be on the 1 Corinthians reading.

1. The most recent Synod eNews (Jan 28)
2. This coming Sunday January 24 we will hear some of the set readings for the day, Epiphany 4B, The details of the readings and some commentary are available here; our focus will be on the 1 Corinthians reading.

1. First update for 2021 – and just a short one!
2. The most recent Presbytery News is here (Jan 4).
3. This Sunday January 24 we will have a short ‘hymn-learning’ session to complete the second of the MtE communion settings by learning the till-now ‘missing’ Gloria for the setting! This will be shortly after the conclusion of the service.
4. This coming Sunday January 24 we will hear some of the set readings for the day, Epiphany 3B, The details of the readings and some commentary are available here; our focus will be on the 1 Corinthians reading.

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. 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