The people gather
…in person and online. We meet at 9am on Sunday mornings, and at 5pm on the 2nd Sunday of the month (“Engadine@5“), and you can read more about our services here. Our building is on the corner of Chipilly Ave and Cambrai Ave in Engadine; a map and accessibility details are here.
We offer hybrid worship via Zoom on Sunday mornings so you can join us wherever you are. Click here to join via Zoom; to join by phone, dial (02) 8015 6011 and enter the code 970 8990 9368. You can find this week’s bulletin or notice sheet here. Here are our past services:
Season of Creation: Rivers
For our final service during Season of Creation, Sue brings a joyful celebration of water in our world as well as grevilleas and other things growing in her garden. Rivers bring us water of life in more ways than one, and are an important biblical metaphor as well.
Season of Creation: Wilderness
Kathy brings a service of lament and sorrow for our role in neglecting and damaging creation, and a message of hope and redemption: God has not abandoned us, Christ has walked in the wilderness, and resurrection has already begun its quiet work.
Seasons of Creation: Land
Leanne leads us this week as we celebrate and consider the ‘land beneath our feet’, exploring how God teaches us to live with enough, to rest, to share, and to trust.
Season of Creation: Forests
Kathy introduces this year’s Season of Creation celebration with an invitation into a time of deep listening, thanksgiving, and renewal—not only for creation, but with creation. In this season, we honour the deep interconnection between all living things and the sacred story of which we are a part. John brings us a big-picture message about our role in restoration and renewal.
To Be Transformed
Jan brings joy and warmth as she leads the service this morning. John urges us to continue as a community who serve with their gifts and share distributed leadership.
Room for Everyone
Kathy leads us in worship with an expansive message of love. The sermon is by Rev Sue Eaves on how Jesus learns and changes through his encounter with the Canaanite woman.
Everyday Miracles
Jesus feeds us, so that we can feed others. Jesus reaches out his hand to Peter, immediately and without hesitancy. These are stories to assure us that God is here, powerfully breathing God’s Spirit,
powerfully providing for God’s people. Why? So we can courageously live in service to one another as a way of serving Christ. Melanie brings us these stories and more this morning as we consider ‘everyday miracles’.
Our call to grace and humility
God transforms the deserts of fear and doubt so that we may be bearers of reconciliation that God’s peace might be found. Paul leads us in worship and holy communion today.
Speaking in parables
Jesus told many parables, explained some, and asked his disciples to understand them. Did they? Do we? Or are they enigmatic, and we are meant to spend time turning them over, looking for meaning? Sue leads us in worship as we consider the parables and learn about ways our partner organisations are working in the world for the common good.
God of the marginalised
This morning we take a close look at two very different bible readings: one, an invitation to ponder seasons of growth in our lives; the other, one that provokes an examination of how God subverts expectation and overturns privilege.