Olive Press 7/6/26

From the June Olive Branch
Making space for the Spirit, Cath James, Minister of the Word
Hospitality, Compassion, Community, Peter Blair, Olive Way Pastor

Annual General Meeting
Our AGM will be held after worship on Sunday 14th June.  The agenda will include receiving the Olive Harvest (collection of Annual Reports), Election of Elders and Congregation Office Bearers together with presentations from Church Council.   Additional agenda items are welcome.  Please offer your apologies if you are unable to attend.

Lunch at Maalu Maalu
After the Annual General Meeting we will be moving on to enjoy lunch at the Maalu Maalu Sri Lankan Restaurant & Bar, $25 all you can eat, Lunch Buffet.   All welcome.  Send Saide an email to RSVP.  If you require financial support please include this request in your RSVP.

Jumping for Joy in June meals
It’s time for Triple Letter Dinners again!!!  Visit the event for details of available spaces at meals on 13, 19th, 20th, 21st June.

Olive Arts Exhibition
Featuring Christina Berkman and Phil Kreveld, 29th-31st May and 5th-7th June, in the West End.

Uniting in Prayer
30 Days | 30 Voices | One Church in Prayer  From Pentecost Sunday on 24 May to the 49th Anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia on 22 June, we (the whole Uniting Church) are embarking on a shared season of national prayer.

First Nations Focus

• Cultural Awareness Education – See Claire Foley’s Mission Spot (from a recent service)  bookings are STILL open for the First Peoples’ Cultural Awareness Education session at BUC facilitated by the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation – there are still places in the final session on 13/6.
• Book Launch: Red Ochre Theology Anne Pattel-Gray Registerfor 5:30pm 18/6
• Please download, print, hang, and share the Statewide Treaty Preamble
  
• Read and share Travis Lovett’s National Walk for Truth – Parliament House Canberra Speech