The Theology That Matters
Where is God in this time of climate crisis? A reflection on Exodus 17:1-7
Sunday Prayers 27/9
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Watch God who split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave the Israelites abundant water to drink, We know you in our waterways, in our oceans and in our rivers. In the Merri Creek, as it rises in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, and flows south through [...]
Worship – Season of Creation 2
On the second Sunday of our Season of Creation (Pentecost 17), 27th September, as we celebrated God’s creation we focused on water and the Exodus story of water flowing from the rock in the wilderness, and we will return to the Merri Creek, the beautiful waterway which runs through many of our neighbourhoods. Watch the [...]
Olive Press 27/9
Prayer Points Ministry Team BIUC Congregation UnitingCare ReGen D&E Committee Presbytery Representatives – Kate and Jamie Student House Program Community Ministry Love Makes a Way Food Co-op CTM Our planet & all she holds BUC News Una Trigg Wesley Trigg has shared that Una died [...]
What has God got to do with it?
The first in our Season of Creation series. A reflection on Freedom and Creation focussing on the story of the Manna from Heaven in Exodus 16.
Riding the Waves with Daniel
Daniel Broadstock The past few months have been transformative for all of us, but particularly for Dan, who returned from London when the pandemic struck. So what happened? Oh boy! Well I taught secondary school in London months before COVID-19 hit. Teaching there was really quite stressful and so different to anything that I [...]
Worship – Season of Creation 1
On the first Sunday of our Season of Creation (Pentecost 16), 20th September, we reflected on story of the crossing of the Red Sea, one of the stories that upsets our spiritual equilibrium. And we enjoyed lots of photos of Spring flowers through the service. Watch the service for the first time or again on YouTube. [...]
Sunday Prayers 20/9
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Watch You may have heard of the Manna Gum tree, it is called that because during summer, soft white sugary lumps form on its leaves and fall onto the ground below where they can be gathered by hand or with the furry side of a possum skin cloak. Just [...]
Olive Press 20/9
Prayer Points Ministry Team Ecumenical Neighbours Assembly President – Deidre ASWC CY&YA Committee Property Committee Mulling group Hospitality Ministry Indigenous Hospitality House UCA Assembly Creatures of the air BUC News Riding the Waves - Episode 1 The first story in the series features Tess, Joel, [...]
Riding the Waves with Tess, Joel, Rafa & Sofia
A bubbling hubbub greets you when you call this happy little tribe, now happily bunkered down in Gisborne, about 54 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. Why the move? At the beginning of July, we decided to ‘run away’ to Gisborne and my parent’s house for the second lock-down. We just wanted to be somewhere where [...]