Greetings to the Koonung Heights Community …

… and welcome to Rev Dr Avril Hannah-Jones and members of the North Balwyn Uniting Church as we celebrate worship and share in community together this Pentecost Sunday.  Pentecost is recognised as the birth of the Church and the coming of the Holy Spirit in a new way to the people, when ‘they were all together in one place’ (Acts 2:1) so it seems fitting that we are gathering too.

The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit and it is placed in the centre of the Uniting Church logo.  The dove, with wings of flame, represents the Spirit which empowers and guides us.  In the Basis of Union, we read ‘God in Christ has given to all the people in the Church the Holy Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that coming reconciliation and renewal which is the end view for the whole creation.’ (BOU Para 3)

May we continue to follow the promptings of the Spirit, as we are enabled to be co-workers for reconciliation and renewal.

Blessings – Heather Hon (she/her).