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Advent Services 2023

This year during Advent we will be exploring the theme “In Light and Darkness”. Devotionals and family activity packs have been sent home with the newsletter and are available to collect in the Church. We look forward to worshipping with you:

Update: Sunday 29 March 2020

Hi all, Well, we tried out live streaming of worship for the first time this week, and, apart from a few technical difficulties, it seemed to go well. For those who were unable to join us live, you can still watch the recording of the whole service, or just the message on our Worship Recordings Page. This evening we have also launched…

PASTORAL LETTER: COVID-19 and Cancellation of Worship

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Hopefully you have already heard from your Pastoral Partner in the last day or so, but I am writing to confirm that Church Council met on Friday and on the very strong recommendation of both Presbytery and Synod, has agreed to immediately suspend all worship services and public gatherings on church property, including Adult Fellowship, Lenten…

Epiphany Discipleship Focus: Reading the Gospel of Mark

Epiphany (Jan-Feb) 2018 At Crookwell Uniting Church, our worship follows a pattern of readings called the Revised Common Lectionary. This is a three year cycle of readings which allows us to hear a broad variety of Scripture. Each year of the cycle one of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) becomes the centre of focus for the Lectionary, with the Gospel according…

Readings for this Sunday: 19 November 2017

Each Sunday morning we hear Scripture read during our worship gatherings. Normally, these readings come from a larger collection of weekly readings referred to as the Revised Common Lectionary. In the length of a Sunday sermon, it is only possible to explore these readings so far – but understanding these passages often takes much longer. As such, I am going to try…

What are our hopes for the church?

On Reformation Sunday (29 October) as part of our Sunday Service, we commemorated 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation in 1517, when, by legend, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. As we began to think about how the world is changing, and what it might mean to be the church into…