Sermon reflections
Why should we care about refugees?
A reflection on what the bible says about refugees for Refugee Sunday. The Painting above is by Naser Moradi a refugee living in Broadmeadows Detention Centre. See his work here. Follow this link to an article listing [...]
Ambiguous Wisdom
A Reflection on Proverbs 8:1-31
A Moral Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21 This week we listened to excerpts from a Pentecost sermon delivered by Rev William Barber II at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York on 5th May 2019 (see [...]
Sunday Prayers
Sunday Prayers 23/6
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Living God, You are with us and among us. You come to meet us, with arms open wide to embrace us. We find you in unexpected places: we only [...]
Sunday Prayers 16/6 – Trinity Sunday
Prayers of Adoration & Confession O God, your life flows among us like a river. Out of the hiddenness of heavenly mystery, along the Christ way of earth, there flows your Spirit, carving a [...]
Sunday Prayers 9/6 – Pentecost
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God you call us to be your people, and that is who we are. You blow through our lives like a rushing wind Waking us up to all the [...]
Ministry Stories
Student House: Rooms Available
Brunswick Uniting Church currently has a couple of vacancies in our Student House Program. For over 20 years we have supported tertiary students from outside Melbourne in their move to Melbourne for study. We [...]
Celebration of Ministry, part 2
During worship on 2nd June we celebrated the ministries of Valentina Satvedi-Leydon and Janet Hogan as our Interim Student House and Youth Support workers. Ian began by acknowledging that they will be staying on [...]
Celebration of Ministry
During worship at Church Camp, 26th May, we celebrated Janet Watson Kruse’s ministry as our Interim Children & Families worker. Janet commenced in this role on Sunday 13th May 2018. Over the past two weeks [...]
Our Stories
WWKIP Day 2019
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2019 On the 8thof June, hand knitters around the world gathered in groups to knit in public. But why? It all started eight years ago, when a woman [...]
Listening – Church Camp 2019
On the weekend of 24th-26th May 40 or so people settled in at the Adekate campsite for a weekend of listening - listening to ourselves, to each other, to creation, to God. And as we [...]
Holy Week Worship 2019
During Holy Week we carried our Lenten listening on a pilgrimage through our worship. We sang a pilgrim’s greeting - ‘Peace, Salaam, Shalom’. We marked our listening with a story staff, beautifully sculpted and [...]