Author: Robyn Hodge

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Ash Wednesday Service 6th March 7pm

Lent is traditionally a time of repentance and fasting as Christians echo the journey of Jesus into the desert. According to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus went into the desert for 40 days and nights where he fasted and was tempted to turn away from God’s calling in exchange for an easier life. St Luke’s is marking the beginning of the 40 days of lent with an Ash Wednesday Service of Repentance, followed by supper.

Anyone who feels the need to make a change in their life is welcome to join us in this service where participants are annointed with oil mixed with the ash from the burnt palm leaves from Palm Sunday in 2018, as an outward sign of their commitment to repentance, and an acknowledgement of our broken-ness and of our need for God to experience healing and wholeness.

It is a very moving experience.

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Act for Peace newsletter available on noticeboard

Act for Peace, the international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia, have sent their Summer 2019 newsletter, featuring encouraging stories of the communities we are helping through the Christmas Bowl and other donor activities.

2 copies of the newsletter are pinned to the office noticeboard, along with a letter from CEO Janet Cousins – feel free to read and pass them around the congregation.

Education is the most powerful tool we have to help communities to support themselves. Your gifts, together with Australian Aid, mean children in rural Pakistan, like Zarina, have access to quality education and a brighter future. Credit: CWS A/Act for Peace

 

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St Luke’s Lenten Studies 2019

Small group sessions are a great way to deepen faith and relationships with your community.  Register now for our 5 week series exploring where God is calling us now as a faith community seeking to follow the way of Jesus.  Stay tuned for group session times and locations –  Members of Seekers, Trekkies, Praise and Worship, and Day 41 groups are already signed up to go!

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Sunday Morning Worship Rosters

St Luke’s has been blessed by the work that Pam Seller and Ian Pooley have done over the past several years in ensuring that our Sunday Morning Worship is well supported by the volunteers from the congregation.

From now on, the role of organising and co-ordinating the volunteers for Sunday morning Worship returns to the St Luke’s Office co-ordinator – Robyn Hodge – commencing with the March roster.  Roles that are usually organised by particular people will continue to be done by those people.
Volunteers can notify Robyn of changes and availability on 52442997 or email info@stlukesuca.org.au.
There may be some hiccups in the first couple of months, but I trust that people will be understanding and gracious as any problems are sorted out.  Thanks to all of you who help the weekly Sunday Morning Worship service to happen!
Pam and Sonya on Morning Tea duty
Robyn Hodge, Office Co-ordinator.
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Kid’s Church is back on Sunday the 10th of February

Families with primary aged children are warmly invited to come to Kid’s Church at our Sunday morning worship service.

Our two Judy’s are ready to help our primary school aged kids to put on their “Jesus” glasses and explore what the world looks like through a lens of compassion, grace, justice, forgiveness and peacemaking.

Sunday 10th of February, 9:30am, St Luke’s Uniting Church, 174 Barrabool Rd. Highton.