Posts from January 2024

We are supporting our ongoing relationship with Doncaster Secondary students with a Stationery Drive. Your offerings of the following will support the students start their 2024 school year off on the right foot: Donate anytime throughout February at the Manningham Uniting Church office, or drop your donation into the tub in the foyer See below for a non-exhaustive list of options – feel free to purchase from where ever is convenient. Blue Biros For example: https://www.officeworks.com.au/paper-mate-write-bros-ballpoint-pens https://www.officeworks.com.au/j-burrows-ballpoint-pens-blue-10-pack-jbaa1151be https://www.bigw.com.au/bic-cristal-original-pen-12-pack-blue/p/232987 https://www.bigw.com.au/paper-mate-kilometrico-capped-ballpoint-pen Grey…

We gathered as a church community yesterday at Westerfolds Park to reflect on the Uniting Church’s Day of Mourning. Many thanks to those that arranged, organised and provided resources for the service that offered us a moment to reflect on the effects of invasion, colonisation and racism on First Peoples.

We enjoy going to café church together, and enjoy our worship there, although we have very different personalities and so appreciate different aspects of church in a real café. Church in a café means for us real coffee, but much more. Although it can be a bit noisy at times, the management at the Living Room always reserve a large table for us up the back, and the staff know us and are most welcoming. Along the way as Café…