Tag: Community
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Flinders Quartet Concert
Flinders Quartet performed a marvellous concert today, featuring a brand new work from Melbourne composer, Matthew Laing. The work, called ‘Out of Hibernation’ explored the experience of existence and change from animal and human perspectives and it was a delight to hear Matthew speak about the work, as it deepened the experience for the audience.…
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Fiesta is coming!
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Flinders Quartet Concert – 23rd February 2pm
Flinders Quartet is coming to St Luke’s Uniting Church at 2.00pm on the 23rd of February 2019 to play Schumann’s String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, No. 3, Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 64, No. 3, and a brand new commission from Melbourne composer Matthew Laing. The performance is a prize orchestrated by 3MBS…
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Ruth: Ageing and aloneness
Today’s service is the first in a three-part series on the book of Ruth, and deals, in small part, with the issue of Ageing and aloneness. In the sermon I make reference to a recent Victorian Government report – Ageing is everyone’s business: a report on isolation and loneliness among senior Victorians The report is an interesting…
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Local Voices Songwriting Workshops
Last Sunday marked the conclusion of the Local Voices Songwriting Workshop series, and what a great experience it’s been! All of the participants shared an interest in music and song, though only a couple had any musical training. The workshops’ design allowed everyone to discover their inner poet and composer. Through creative thinking exercises and a…
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Connecting with the Tent of Nations
Tonight at St Luke’s, we’ve been hearing from the Daoud Nassar from the Tent of Nations, with friends from other congregations and the community. Daoud, who heads up this centre of peacemaking that is also a working farm, hosts camps for children from across Palestine and Israel and around the…
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Lent – 14th reading for discipleship reflections
I’m listening to U2 as I write – 40 is playing, a paraphrase of Isaiah 40, which includes the words ‘how long?’ and ‘I will sing, sing new song’. I’m going to consider these reflections a kind of ‘new song’ that I’m singing to God. Reading – Mark 6:53-7:23 It’s not what goes in, but…
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Lent – 12th reading for discipleship reflections
Wow – 2 lapsed days – not good! Reading – Mark 6:1-29 As I sit at my kitchen table at my laptop, with reminders of the large party we had last week still around me, and having substantially more than two changes of clothes (a tunic was a garment similar to the alb I wear…
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Destruction, mindless destruction.
Our friends at The Tent of Nations suffered a dreadful blow on the 18th of May, as Israeli Defence Force bulldozers demolished fruit trees on their farm. Daoud Nassar explains below: Today at 08.00, Israeli bulldozers came to the fertile valley of the farm where we planted fruit trees 10 years ago, and destroyed the terraces and…