Loving God, who supports and allows everything to live, Thank you for the gift of time – which flows on throughout our lives, just as water does not return to its source once it has flowed. We thank you for this moment, which can only be replaced by another moment, and so on. Help us…
Loving and compassionate God, who is ever-present. We are grounded in your love. We remember the words of Jesus to “love your neighbour”. We pause to bring our concerns and prayers for others before you. Not as a fix it list for you to remedy but to remind ourselves that we have a responsibility…
My good friend Larry and I spent a good part of last Monday standing on a small jetty on a bend in the Maribyrnong River at Essendon. Actually, we weren’t just standing. We were having a go at what is strangely named Plein air painting. This form of painting was developed by a French artist…
Access the newsletters of our congregation from 2020.
Access the newsletters of our congregation from 2019.
As you know I have been on a few weeks leave. I took the opportunity to visit Victoria; spending a few days in different places. Ocean. Lakes. Forests. Rivers. Mountains. Beaches. We certainly live in a beautifully diverse land and it was great spending time appreciating it. But two images, in particular, have embedded themselves…
At the top of my favourite Christmas song list sits John Lennon’s ‘War is Over’. So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun I’ll tell you why it’s my number 1 shortly. I quite like some of the traditional Carols: my favourite carol being In…
What a privilege and opportunity to speak with someone from another culture. Our conversations began over six months ago, and we have been in contact ever since. Ryon, whom you will meet in this morning’s worship, is a teacher in the Black Pearl Network’s English-speaking program. She and fourteen other teachers are involved in teaching…
If our encounter with a Coronavirus and an exhausting period of lockdown has taught us anything, it would have to be what it feels like to sit with a deep longing and learning how to patiently and sometimes impatiently wait for it to be satisfied. A longing to see and hug family. A longing to…
We are almost there – all being well, the St Kilda Uniting Church will gather in the building at 163 Chapel St on Sunday 13th December. That may sound like an odd way to describe returning to the building which for over 140 years has stood on the corner of Chapel and Carlisle and been…