Prayer Points Ministry Team Church Council Carlynne – MoW candidate Olive Way program Pastoral Care Committee Justice & Mission Committee Sunday Morning Program Roster participants Non-Violent Direct Action FUNdraising Committee Presbytery of Port Philip West Creatures of the land Presbytery Prayer Points Glenroy Pascoe Vale (Kent Rd) Pascoe Vale South Rev Rina Lyndon Ng [...]
If you were down at Olive Way on Wednesday a week or so ago you probably would have seen Larissa walk in with a couple of zip-tied canvass bags, along with a few pillow cases, similarly sealed. If you happened to have watched said bags carefully you would have seen them moving every now [...]
Exodus 1-2 - a reflection on the way God's salvation flows into our world The birth of Moses and his infant deliverance is like a Christmas story for the people of Israel - it is the birth of salvation, the birth of freedom and healing and life and love. As at Christmas, the story [...]
Creating a Peace Felt A group of ten gathered to create a peace felt for International Day of Peace for the twenty first of September. Our peace felt will be exchanged with our peace felt partner somewhere in the world. What a beautiful symbol of unity in the commitment to living more peacefully in [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Our God of wine and water, Spirit of love, who is too deep for words, too beautiful for images, too distant to be known and too close to be lost. We see you in the radiant spread of the heavens, in the celestial sweep of planets and stars that [...]
In Loving Memory of Rev. Joan Gilchrist 8/9/1932-21/8/2017 Eulogy, offered by Glenice Cook Joan was a loved member of this congregation during the years of her retirement, first at South West Brunswick and then at Sydney Road. From the moment Joan joined our community she was anxious to fully participate in the life of [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team BIUC Congregation Fiona – MoD candidate UnitingCare ReGen D&E Committee Presbytery Representative Student House Program Community Ministry Love Makes a Way Food Co-op CTM Our planet & all she holds Presbytery Prayers Northcote Chalice Community of Faith Rev Deacon Peter Batten BUC News We will be continuing a [...]
Boom! Crash! Thud, thud, thud…If you are hearing loud noises from the main church building next to Olive Way, chances are you might be thinking there is construction going on. But no, its only Alan, sharpening up his drumming technique and trying to get his groove back after many, many years away from the [...]
YES is what happens when we listen to the other and let them influence us. Matthew 15:10-28 is an ugly gospel passage - this reflection focusses in on that ugliness to find a beautiful Yes hidden in its No.
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God of mystery and wonder in times beyond our imagining you created a house, this earth, where love can dwell clothing her with abundant beauty and amazing complexity. Forgive us when we participate in the destruction of our incredible home by simply doing nothing. Forgive us when we fail [...]