Greetings … After themes of Hope and Peace in the first two weeks of Advent, our theme for this week is Joy.  Joy should be an easy thing for us, yet as we grow older we sometimes relegate joy to the background and instead are satisfied with happiness or contentment.  Yet joy is all around…

Greetings … Last Sunday our Advent theme was Hope … a hope that, even while we remember Jesus coming as a baby at Bethlehem, Jesus Christ will also come again.  This week our theme is Peace … the cradle of peace in Bethlehem so long ago and the peace that comes to us when we…

Greetings … and Happy New Year!  This coming Sunday marks the beginning of the Season of Advent, a time for Christians when we are called to start our preparations for Christmas and the birth of Jesus, Immanuel, God with us. Yet Jesus comes not only in the vulnerability of a tiny baby, but also in…

Greetings … On Sunday 15 March we celebrated in worship together at the church. We rejoiced with Nick and Miranda Heather who brought Lane for baptism.  Rev Deacon Gavin Blakemore shared with us about the work of Uniting.  We enjoyed a cuppa together after the service, cleaned up, shut the doors, locked up and went…

Greetings … At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh months in 1918, the armistice (laying down of arms) was signed to end the First World War.  This coming Tuesday we will remember the sacrifice made by men and women not only in World War I, but also in the many wars…

Greetings … It is good to be back with you from Study Leave.  I would like to thank those who stepped up to make this possible, particularly Ray Michelle for his work taking the services each week. I’m sure that you found the messages helpful … I know that I did. This coming Sunday, 1…

GreetingsMost of you have heard of my tales of woe with my new dog that arrived in June, called Murphy. Only to have a permanent mate soon after – Mixon, which could have been double trouble, but I think it has halved it. Despite spending a chunk of my childhood onfarms, I have never really…

Hello there…This week, I came to take a picture of the stone where we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in our garden. I decided to take the picture of these three that are at the Yeneda side end of the church.It has been many weeks since we have been in our buildings, and…

Greetings … Some of us have been participating in the Climate for Change study over the last couple of weeks.  The opening readings for this week both really struck me. “I have done what is mine; may Christ teach you yours.”(Francis of Assisi – as quoted in Bonaventure’s Major Legend 14:3) “Besides this, you know…

Greetings …Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Season of Creation that we followed throughout September. It was a wonderful time of sharing stories and getting to know one another a little better though personal words and images. I am hoping to put these reflections together as a little reminder to each one of…