St Luke's Uniting Church, Highton
St Luke's is a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia, located in Highton, Geelong.
Welcome back to your weekly updates for 2019! We hope everyone had restful and renewing time over January, and look forward to and exciting year as we discern and follow God’s path for us as a faith community this year.
Uniting Church President Dr Deidre Palmer has recorded a Survival Day video message with young Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Congress leader Sean Weetra on Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia.
The observance of a Day of Mourning was endorsed by the Fifteenth Assembly at the request of our sisters and brothers in the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC). In the spirit of our Covenant relationship with the UAICC, we have declared the Sunday before Australia Day as a Day of Mourning.
Remembering our history is an important part of our journey toward reconciliation as First and Second Peoples. The service reminds us of the dispossession and violence against First Peoples, and laments that as a Church and as Second Peoples we were and remain complicit. We acknowledged this in our Church when we apologised to the Stolen Generations in 1997. We acknowledged this by revising the Preamble to our Constitution, which was approved by the Ninth Assembly in 2009. We acknowledged this in affirming First Peoples as the sovereign peoples of this land. Our declaration of a Day of Mourning allows us to stand together in remembering the truth of our history, and honouring the culture of Australia’s First Peoples, their families and the next generations.
2019 President’s Survival Day Message from Uniting Church in Australia on Vimeo.
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Here is information received from City of Greater Geelong Events team re disruption of access to Barrabool Rd on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of Jan from 1:30 pm to 3:30pm and invitation to volunteer. This will not affect the Sunday morning worship service but may be of interest to members.
Wishing our St. Luke’s community a blessed celebration of Christmas and travelling mercies for those of you on the road or sea, or in the air, this holiday season. This update is the last for 2018 and the only until Week 4 of January 2019.
Growing Up Together is a FREE intergenerational resource is for multi-age households, small groups and communities of faith committed to growing up together in worship, witness and service. Growing Up Together comprises an overview of the place of rites and rituals in the lives of young people and their communities plus liturgical resources for marking these significant occasions. Growing Up Together contains resources for recognising and celebrating, in an intergenerational way,
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or contact Robyn at the church office to have one emailed or printed for you.
