Category: Music
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Funerals for David Symington and June Bann
Over the last month, St Luke’s has mourned the deaths of two wonderful members of our congregation. Links to the videos of their funerals are below. We anticipate holding larger gatherings in the future to allow family and friends to share memories together. Please keep their families in your prayers. For the video of David…
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The funeral of Derek McGown
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Climate Change Forum – How should the Uniting Church Respond?
Climate change is a serious threat to global wellbeing. Should the Uniting Church play a more significant role in responding to climate change and, if so, what form should this take? Should the Synod call a ‘climate emergency’? What guidance can be derived from scripture?You are invited to take part in an onlinediscussion that will…
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Online Forum – Saturday 20th June
Meeting the Challenge of Declining Social Trust Saturday, June 20th, 10:00am to 12:30pm Evidence shows that mistrust is increasing globally: mistrust of government, the media, big business, and other public and private institutions. Why does this lack of trust matter? What are the reasons for it? and What role can we as individuals, and the…
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Mount Waverley Uniting Churches Combined Service Choir
As part of our upcoming Combined Service, I’m assembling a ‘virtual choir’ over Zoom. Our first ‘session’ will be on Thursday the 28th of May at 2.00 pm on the Zoom details below. The song we’ll be preparing is ‘Called Together’. The music can be found here, along with recordings – scroll down to the…
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Holy Week Labyrinth available
The Labyrinth has been prepared and is available for use by anyone who walks past as part of their exercise. Only one person may use the Labyrinth at a time, in compliance with gathering and movement restrictions. This is an offering from St Luke’s to the local community to enable reflection and spiritual connection in…
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Sunday worship 29th March
Since the announcement of gathering restrictions on churches, St Luke’s has been working on ways to keep connected and to worship together. We’ve been using the online platform, Zoom, to enable us to worship together. The 29th of March was our first effort entirely on Zoom and while it had plenty of technical difficulties, it…
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A new way to worship with St Luke’s
As part of finding new ways to gather due to government restrictions and the desire to reduce everyone’s risk of infection, we’re trialling using ‘Zoom’, a conference call platform that works on computers, tablets, smartphones and even ordinary landline phones! Those who want to use a landline or mobile phone can ‘dial in’ to the…
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Temporary Suspension of Worship and Indoor Gatherings
As part of our congregation’s response to restrictions on indoor gatherings, this Sunday, 22nd March, will be our last Sunday worship for a while. We’re also suspending other indoor gatherings in the Church and halls from Monday the 23rd. The preschool continues to operate, though with procedures in place to enhance hygiene and reduce transmission…
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Statement from the Heart Forum.
By Tom Spurling. Learning about the ‘Statement from the Heart’ About 35 people from Uniting Churches in the Mount Waverley area were fortunate, on Saturday 11 January, to meet with Timothy Molineux, originally from Port Augusta but now working for the Uniting church in Melbourne. Tim has an Honours degree in Media from a university…