Dear Friends, Apologies for getting my months mixed up in last Friday’s Fellowship News! I hope people worked out from the date (Friday 15th) that Judith Bauer is having surgery this Friday, 15th November! Please pray for her and for Richard as they both navigate significant health challenges at present. Read more…
I mentioned a prayer on Sunday which is often referred to as The Romero Prayer. It has a great deal in common with the teaching and the life of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, who was assassinated on 24 March 1980, as he conducted mass, for speaking Read more…
Dear Friends, There has been a change to this Sunday’s events!We have had to postpone Rev Dr John Harris’s talk on Historic Bibles and their legacy to Sunday, 17th November, at 3:30pm, in the Lounge. So rather than lunch, we will now be having afternoon tea before the talk begins. Read more…
While Belinda is away, she has invited me to produce the Sunday to Sunday reflections.I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some of the key learnings, from this year, of the Currie Crescent Community Centre Advisory Committee. Much of what we’ve learnt came from the three tours (ACT, Melbourne Read more…
As art of last weeks Sunday to Sunday, I shared some of the key learnings, from this year, of the Currie Crescent Community Centre Advisory Committee. Much of what we’ve learnt came from the three tours (ACT, Melbourne and Sydney) held through the year. The good news is that there Read more…
Dear Friends, I was visiting Dawn Waterhouse last week and she said, “Belinda, I’ve been watching all this terrible news about the Middle East. It is so terrible! Tell me, what are you doing about it?” “What are you doing about it?” It’s a confronting question, but particularly confronting coming Read more…
On Sunday we read that Solomon was concerned with the big things and the small things – the great cedars of Lebanon and the hyssop growing in the walls. My inbox is slowly filling with photos (thank you to everyone who has sent one so far!) of small things you Read more…
Dear Friends, Once again, we are holding our Blessing of the Animals service (this Sunday, 29th September) – and once again we are holding it at a time when parts of our world are marked by grief and conflict. Last year this event was in the immediate aftermath of the Read more…
Dear Friends, I was so impressed with all of you and your knowledge of Shakespeare last Sunday! I only tricked you by including one quote from a poem – The Passionate Pilgrim. And who knows? That might have been a line written Richard Barnfield, Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh! Read more…
Dear Friends, Let me repeat the invitation to morning tea at the manse next Sunday (15 Sept) – delivered in the style of the Song of Songs! “Arise, my loves, my fair ones, and come to the Manse next Sunday with food for morning tea,for now the winter is past,Aron Read more…