Prayers of Adoration & Confession Wondrous God, creator of the Earth, of endless discoveries and delights, of new green shoots following the Autumn rain. Forgive us for exploiting and taking what is yours for our own. May we seek to live in harmony with your goodness, praising the power of mountains before the power [...]
Psalm 23 - a psalm with Wow!, Oh No! and Phew moments Prayers of Adoration & Confession God of ancient times, you speak into the hearts of your people calling through the ages to a new and better way to live in the world. Time and time again you restore us when [...]
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 carved by Colin Hunter. We remembered and placed the stories of our time alongside Jesus’ story. We responded to the [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Culture of Safety program Moderator Stewart Lodge & residents Worship Committee Finance Committee YUCY & YUCY-OG Compassion Ministry D&E Committee Synod of VicTas Creatures of the sea BUC News Church Camp Listening to ourselves…listening to each other…listening to the Earth…listening for [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God of the Way, The path on which you call us never runs straight and smooth. It bends and turns, it climbs and falls. On some days we run and dance, and great rises and stones melt beneath our feet Some days we are staggered by fear and doubt [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Church Council 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 BUC News Commissioning Peter Blair and Dave Hall will be [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession In today’s Easter story the risen Jesus comes through the locked doors of fear He offers peace He shows his wounds He breathes the Holy Spirit upon his followers And sends them to continue his work let us enter into this story in prayer. Living crucified one, no act [...]
Holy Week Prayers Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Good Friday Easter Dawn Easter Day BUC News Pop-up Op Shop Helen Burnham's world famous op shop will be open for the next four Sundays, starting 28th April. Come along for a bargain. Contribute to the seed funding [...]
Prayers of Adoration Risen Lord, Rabbouni, it is you! You are here, you are with us again! This is something so extraordinary we never believed could happen. We saw you crucified and buried. We have been bereft these last days as we thought we had lost you, that all hope was gone, that the [...]
Opening Prayers interspersed with verses from Isaiah 52:13-53:12 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. Jesus Christ, Suffering Servant, betrayed and denied, receive the love of our grieving hearts. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his [...]