St Luke's Uniting Church, Highton
St Luke's is a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia, located in Highton, Geelong.
The library has some funds budgeted for resource purchases and our librarian Glenis would like to refresh our collection of books and DVDs for children and youth. If you would like to suggest some worthy titles, please email info@stlukesuca.org.au or chat to Glenis at the Sunday morning worship service.
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.
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.
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.
Uniting is the welfare agency of the Uniting Church. To view the most recent annual report, go here: https://www.vt.uniting.org/2018annualreport/
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.
