Rainbow flag update

 Rainbow Flag number sixteen stolen at 11.30am today from the Uniting Church by a man wearing a hoodie and face mask. We are Saddened but determined to keep showing this message of inclusion and love. Thank you to those who have been supporting us. 

The Resurrection mystery

Here is a video with excerpts of our Easter day service. Apologies for the poor sound quality for the puppet show, but the rest seems ok. We explore the nature of the need for us to take into ourselves the joy of the resurrection.

 

The symbol of the Cross

 

Letting go of the symbol of the cross may make some sense on a rational level. But on a holistic level its value as a symbol is immense. Its power is its ability to embrace and thereby allow us into the full reality of suffering. Suffering cannot be confined to rationality. The experience of suffering makes no rational sense. The power of the cross as a symbol is that it helps us locate our common predicament in the world—that we experience suffering—in a common experience of God. God is so incarnate with us that God even experiences that which we experience in all its reality. God stands in solidarity with us, born out of love for us.

Kathleen T. Talvacchia

Easter and Holy Week Services

 This Holy week we will have a meditative service on Good Friday at 9am. This is a space in which we sit with the hard questions about violence, death and hatred that confront us and ask about the presence of the Divine in these hard places. 

On Easter Sunday at 10.30am we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and open ourselves to the Hope and promise of new life that is present in the story. This will also be a communion Sunday and a family service.

Ther will be an Easter Egg hunt after the service.
 

Palm Sunday - Gum Tree Sunday

 This Sunday we look at the Palm Sunday story and think about the idea of the procession as a protest rally. We also explore the sense of the mixt feelings associated with this Sunday.