Apr 27, 2020 | INSPIRING, PRAYERS, WORSHIP
I spent a recent Saturday morning foraging for fruit, and bottling my anxiety against the coming winter: raiding lonely but laden apple trees on roadside reserves; carefully collecting windfalls from our ancient pear tree before greedy grubs burrow in, to spoil and...
Apr 27, 2020 | INSPIRING, MISSION, WORSHIP
The single voices were a little unsure at the start, and our singing was a little raw. The sound might drop in and out, and some of us have connected by the phone. Some of us pull up a space on our couches, and tune into a YouTube channel. Some of us connect into...
Apr 27, 2020 | ACTIVITIES, EXPERIENCING FAITH, INSPIRING, MISSION, WORSHIP
In her Easter message, Moderator Rev Denise Liersch reminded us to look to Jesus for a way forward during this time of seismic upheaval. The congregations and faith communities in the Presbytery of Tasmania have many ways of being Church during this ‘non-contact’...
Apr 15, 2020 | EXPERIENCING FAITH, INSPIRING, NEWS, WORSHIP
“When the unexpected happens you begin to live.” I do not recall who first wrote that but it is essential truth. When our individual, daily lives follow a pattern with which we have become so familiar, then it is arguable whether we are living or just...
Apr 15, 2020 | ACTIVITIES, EXPERIENCING FAITH, INSPIRING, NEWS
Easter Sunday Flowers Early Easter Sunday morning saw Penguin Uniting Church member Lynn Templar put up a floral cross in front of the one of the most picturesque Uniting Churches in the country, just over the road from the ocean. Lynn’s comments below indicate...
