Posts from August 2024

Yesterday’s Together@10 service’s theme was Social Justice Sunday. With thanks to MUC’s Social Justice Action group and Simon Kerr from Music for a Warming World. They shared some insights into our current climate situation with some thought provoking ways that we can do our bit for caring for the earth.

In 2009 Gwyn and I went on an overseas trip travelling to Tajikistan. Where is Tajikistan you may ask. It is a land-locked country in Central Asia and its main border is with Afghanistan. We went there to share in the lives of our son, daughter-in-law and their children for three weeks. They were part of a Christian medical mission team stationed in the small town of Gharm. For us it was an amazing experience. The main religion is Islam…

The phone rang “Bill here, where are you?” “About 100 kilometers from Alice Springs, I said. “A bit late aren’t you? Should be there by now. Not a very safe place that. Been a bit of trouble up there. Where are you staying?” asked my concerned friend Bill. “Same place,” I said “MacDonnell Ranges Caravan Park. I’ll be safe there.” “Are you booked in or is it another one of those: I will find a place when I get there?”…

Family@10 looked and all the types of roles that make up a team – the players, the cheer squad, the drivers, the scorers, the coach and put all of those roles into action as we explored juggling balls, hopscotch, elastics, marbles, cats cradles. Each role has an important part to play in the team. “Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

A small group of around 24, comprising members of MUC along with visitors from other churches, gathered to learn about the Theology of Visibility from visiting Cato Lecturer Rev Dr Grace Ji-Sun Kim, a Korean American theologian and Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. She brought with her copies of her latest books, ‘When God became White’, ‘Surviving God’ and ‘Invisible’ which were available for sale at morning tea time with many people availing themselves of…