Waranga Uniting Churches
Colbinabbin, Murchison, Rushworth, Tatura
FAITH | HOPE | MEANING | GRACE | COMMUNITY
Sunday 3rd July 2022
Streaming from Murchison 9.30 am. You can join us in person or join with our congregations at Tatura, Rushworth and Colbinabbin, or join us from your home.
Work with the willing
This week’s gospel (Luke 10) reading is the story of Jesus sending out 70 disciples on a short sharp mission to the towns and villages that lay ahead of his journey from Galilee to Jerusalem. This is at the end of his Galilean ministry and while we think of the 12 disciples, this passage make clear that there were many more people, both women and men, committed and prepared to follow Jesus.
The instructions Jesus gives to the seventy are the same as those he gave to the 12 inner core of disciples in the previous chapter: travel light, have a sense of urgency, work with the willing, don’t lose sleep over rejection, proclaim the good news of the kingdom, bring healing and peace.
Too often we get frustrated when everyone doesn’t get on board with, what we think, is a great idea. We can spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince the unwilling and get unanimous support, instead of working with the willing and getting on with it. Not every great idea turns out to be great in practice. Few people are early adopters and comfortable with the level of risk associated with bold new ventures. But we don’t need everyone! We need a willing few. If the idea is as great as we think, others will get on board later.
This week we’ll reflect on the advice Jesus gave and how we might apply it today.
Led by Brian Spencer, the service will start at 9.30am. The live Zoom “room” will be open for you to log-in to from 9.00am. Log-in, chat to others, be the church!
Hope to see you in person or online.
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Watch the service here on Facebook
Watch the recorded service later
Facebook records the service and it will be available to watch later or share with others in your family and friendship circle.
Rather stay anonymous?
We understand that you may prefer to remain anonymous. It may have been a while since you went to church, maybe you’ve never been to church and are just curious. We understand that you don’t want to be hassled just because you were curious.
If you want to remain anonymous there are four ways you can do it.
- Choose the “Join without video” option. You will be able to see, hear (and talk if you want to)
- Your name also appears in the bottom left of their picture in Zoom. This name will be the one you entered at sign-up. At any time in the meeting you can right-mouse click on your name and change or delete it.
- You can choose to attend via the Livestream option.
- You can watch the recorded service later on the website
Our church needs your support.
Please consider donating your offering online via the button below
or by direct bank transfer:
Account name:
Waranga Uniting Churches.
Bendigo Bank:
BSB 633-000
Account No:162 446 371.
ABC Radio Shepparton
Matt Dowling interviews Brian Spencer. Monday 5th July.
About us
The Waranga Uniting Churches comprise congregations from the towns of Colbinabbin, Murchison, Rushworth, and Tatura.
You are welcome to join us at any of our worship services or activities.
Many faces… Many places… Many forms
Our congregations throughout the district are caring communities to which all people can belong.
Some of our congregations may be a tiny community of a dozen people, but they are warm vibrant and alive.
They have many faces. There are older people and young, families and single people, people of one culture or many.
While our congregations can be different, each aims to embrace all people… to unite them with each other and with God. This is expressed in part by our having an open table for Holy Communion, to which all baptised people are invited, welcoming children for baptism and being willing to marry those who are divorced.
We are by no means perfect, but we know that God loves us as we are and as we grow. Our congregations are communities in which people seek to follow Jesus, learn about God, share their faith, care for each other, serve the local community, and seek to live faithfully and with real joy. This is the kind of engaging church to which we belong.
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