Greetings, One of the big discussion topics at Synod was the response of the Uniting Church to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act which was passed on 29 November 2017. This act allows (from 19 June 2019) Victorians at the end of life who are suffering, and who meet strict eligibility criteria, to request access to…

Greetings, Early next week Tony’s mum celebrates her birthday so she is coming to dinner Sunday night. When people come over for a special celebration meal there is a sense of heightened activity as rooms are cleaned, the table is set and food is prepared. Elizabeth is excited to prepare this meal as a gift…

Greetings, As part of the Synod meeting we participated in Bible Studies each day. These were led by Dr Liz Boase who asked us to consider the following two questions as a church community: – Who are we?, and, Where are we going? Some possible directions were considered … Backwards, Inwards, Upwards and Outwards. Backwards:…

“I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 Greetings, From Friday 5 to Tuesday 9 July the Synod meeting will take place. As the VicTas website says, Synod is a time…

Greetings, My parents have recently decided to downsize from their home and move into a smaller unit in a retirement village. In some ways this couldn’t have come soon enough, but now we are faced with the monumental task of going through more than 50 years of stuff deciding what needs to be kept and…

Greetings, “The Answer to the Great Question … Of Life, the Universe and Everything … Is … Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” Deep Thought is the name given to a supernatural- computer in the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy written by Douglas Adams. The computer is programmed to calculate…