Welcome to Waranga Uniting Churches
Seasons of Creation
OPEN AGAIN
With restrictions on gatherings now eased, our church buildings at Colbinabbin, Murchison, Rushworth and Tatura will be open and all our congregations will now meet once again meet face-to-face. Remember to scan/register, wear a mask, social distance and if you are not well please stay home and join us on Zoom.
The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together. During the Season of Creation, we join our sisters and brothers in the ecumenical family in prayer and action for our common home.
Over four Sundays from 5th -26th September we will celebrate God as Creator and our relationship to God’s world.
Sky Sunday
Sunday 19th September 9.30am streaming via Zoom from Colbinabbin
This Sunday is the third Sunday in the season of Creation. It is a time in which we turn to creation for its capacity to reveal something of God to us, for its capacity to remind us of our responsibility to care for creation and most of all for the joy that these two things bring.
We start in the book of Genesis with the ancient story of creation. The first thing that needs to be said is that this story is not a scientific account. It is a complex, many-layered story that speaks about God, the sort of life that comes to us from relationship with God and the relationship that we have with every other created thing.
In Genesis, the first act of God is self-revelation. God says, let there be light and there was light. The word that is used for light is the glory word. We see something of God, the wonder and the glory of God – and God says it is good – it is fitting for this to be so.
On Sunday our focus will be the sky and everything in it and we will join the sky in its praise of God by simply being itself – all that it is meant to be.
When the bible talks about the heavens, it is talking about the sky and although it is a bit more complex in ancient Hebrew understanding, the same can be said of the word firmament – it is what we see when we look up – and so we will take up the ideas of Psalm 19 – the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims God’s handiwork.
Join us this Sunday as we will explore a little of God’s handiwork and we will reflect on the human privilege of care and the way in which caring for creation adds purpose and meaning to our lives…. fulfills us.
Gereldine Leonard will lead the service which 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!
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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
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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.
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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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