Everyone is welcome to the Installation Service of Dr Deidre Palmer Sunday 8 July 2018 at 7.00pm for 7.30pm start St Michael's Uniting Church 120 Collins St Melbourne VIC Supper will follow the service Scots' Presbyterian Church 156 Collins St Melbourne VIC The 15th Assembly meeting will be hosted by the Synod of Victoria [...]
Ministry Team commissioning During worship on 3rd June our Ministry Team reformed with two new members - Janet Hogan, as our Interim Student Support worker with responsibility for the YUCY (youth group) program and Valentina Satvedi Leydon, as our Student House Support Worker with responsibility for the 10 young adults who live in our [...]
Looking into the face of Jesus ... The hope we have as we reach up to God Luke 24:36b-48 Singing the refrain from 'She comes sailing on the wind'. Prayers of Adoration God, Loving Creator, We reflect on what it means to be your children, evaluating our attempts to [...]
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday which included our Ecumenical Walk so a sermon was not offered. BUC News Holy Week worship Worship during Holy Week will continue the theme of listening, bringing together the themes of Lent and taking us into an experience of listening to [...]
BUC News Una & Wesley Trigg have been offered and have accepted a double room at Carnsworth Aged Care Facility (under the wing of the Uniting Church) and will move there on Tuesday 16th January. Our address from that date will be: Charnsworth, 10 A’Beckett St., Kew 3101. [...]
The Basis of Union - What is it? Why should we care? On Thursday 16th November (for the final instalment of the third Spiritual Survival Guide, offered by our Discipleship & Education Committee) Geoff Thompson reminded us of the importance of the Basis of Union as the foundation document of the Uniting Church. We read [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Culture of Safety program Moderator Stewart Lodge & residents Worship Committee Finance Committee YUCY & YUCY-OG Compassion Ministry D&E programs – Griefs Observed Synod of VicTas Creatures of the sea Presbytery Prayer Points Strathmore Rev Juliette Tautala’aso Sunbury Rev Stan Clarke BUC News Everyone is welcome to the next [...]
What is it? Should we care? The Basis is the document to which the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches agreed to in order to form the Uniting Church. Should we care? Yes, because far from merely being a document of the theological fashions of the 1960s, it was even then cutting across conventional theological [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Ecumenical Neighbours Assembly President ASWC CY&YA Committee Property Committee Mulling Hospitality Ministry Sanctuary Movement Indigenous Hospitality House UCA Assembly Creatures of the air Presbytery Prayers Newtown Noble St. & St. David's Rev. Tevita Holonai Rev. Dr. Keith Yelverton BUC News Caitlin Mullen has been appointed to the CY&YA [...]
The empty jar and the well of grace - Genesis 21:8-21. Which way is better? – to leave the future up to God? – or work to shape the future by our own endeavours? Isaac and Ishmael symbolise these two alternatives.