space for spirituality, hospitality and learning
Good Friday Service
The Good Friday service will be held at St Paul’s UC, Ballan, starting at 9.30am. The Ballan elders will lead the worship.
Easter Sunday 8th April
The Cluster Worship service will be held in the Daylesford UC at 10.30am, conducted by Rev. Peter Morton. The worship service will include Holy Communion. Lunch will follow.
Daylesford Uniting Church
Friday 16th December BBQ 5.30 pm Carols 7.00 pm
Sunday 25th December Celebration of Christmas Day in the Cluster at Daylesford 9:00am.
Little Hampton Uniting Church
Friday 23rd December 7:00pm
Trentham Uniting Church
Sunday 18th December 7:00pm
Ballan Ecumenical Community Carols in Mechanics Hall
Sunday 18th December 7.00pm
Ballan Uniting Church
Saturday 24th December Quiet reflective Cluster Christmas Eve Service at Ballan 7:30 pm.
Blackwood Uniting Church
Friday 23rd December 5.30pm BBQ, 7.00pm Carols
St Andrew’s Uniting Church - Trentham
We all have our own Sacred Space—a place that is regarded as special; unique to our experiences of life; determined by our relationship with that space, and defined by the intangible sense of peace that it provides. It is a space that we set apart from all others, one that we would regard as sacred.
This booklet celebrates the sacredness of life within and beyond the pale of everyday existence. Fifteen locals share what, for them, are intimately personal experiences of meaning, depth, sustenance and vigour. They allow us to journey with them into their Sacred Space and glimpse the peace that is found there.
The booklet titled ‘Sacred Spaces’ was complied following our successful Photographic Exhibition held earlier this year. It is available for sale at $10 each, plus $2 Postage & Handling.
Enquires to Rosalie & Bill Franzke: (03) 5424 1390
St Andrew’s Uniting Church
Following our successful Photographic Exhibition held earlier this year, it has been decided to compile a book containing the fifteen photographs and accompanying words. This book titled “Sacred Spaces”, is to be launched on Sunday 18th September at 2:30pm in the Trentham Uniting Church Hall. The Community is invited to attend. Entry is a gold coin donation and afternoon tea will be provided. The book will be available for sale at $10.00 each.
Contact Millicent Dunn phone 54241548
The Trentham Combined Churches Committee (TCCC) is planning a “Christmas in July” Dinner to be held on Saturday 30th July at 6.30 pm in Mechanics Hall, High Street, Trentham. A 3-course meal will be served at $30 per head and BYO drinks.
Entertainment by Trentham’s community choir, “Cool Harmony” and music by “The Two of Us”.
All are welcome for an evening of good food, music and fellowship.
Bookings are essential - contact Glenda (5424-1727) before 16th July for tickets.
EASTER SERVICES
MAUNDY THURSDAY 5:30 PM - LITTLE HAMPTON
Light Meal and Service
GOOD FRIDAY 9:00 AM - BALLAN
EASTER SUNDAY 10.30AM - DAYLESFORD
Followed by a Celebration Lunch
Blackwood Uniting Church
Friday 24th December 5.30pm Barbeque and 7.00pm Carols
Daylesford Uniting Church
Ecumenical Carols Service at Daylesford Uniting Church Friday 17th December, 2010
5.30 pm Barbeque – 7.00 pm Carols. All welcome.
Saturday 25th December (Christmas Day) 9.00 am.
Little Hampton Uniting Church
Carols Friday 17th December 2010 at 7pm
In conjunction with the Baptist Church from Kyneton.
Supper afterwards.
Trentham Uniting Church
Sunday 19th December 2010 5.30pm Barbeque and 7.00pm Carols.
In late 2008 we set about wondering how we could acknowledge and
celebrate the Christian faith of the Wesleyan pioneers who made
Daylesford their home and how could we include in the celebration
those traditions that follow to the present?
The dilemma was: do we celebrate the opening of the current church
building, the former church building or do we choose a more
appropriate anniversary?
After much discussion it was unanimously agreed to adopt the
latter option. So the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
Christian witness in Daylesford under the Wesleyan and successive
traditions (Methodist and Uniting) was born.
A Worship Service to celebrate this milestone in the Churches history
will be held on Sunday 28th November at 11:00 AM in
Daylesford Uniting Church Central Springs Road Daylesford.
For further details please contact the Church Office on 5348 2119
Trentham Uniting Church is hosting a ‘Car Boot Sale’ on Saturday 9th October from 9:30am.
There will be antiques, footwear and various stashes of trash and treasure.
There will also be a barbecue.
All on the grounds of Trentham Uniting Church
Interested ‘boot’ holders please contact Marie on 5424 1506
Come and join in the fun.
I used to drive past a primary school that annually displayed a clever sign: ‘Tempting Fete’. Each year it was the same and each year I would inwardly chuckle, admiring the play on words.
Fate it is a concept that many agree with and many vehemently reject. In rejecting fate some choose to believe that life is purely random.
As I recently shared at our Sacred Spaces ‘Words in Winter’ event, rather than seeing reality as ‘fixed’ or ‘random’, Celtic Spirituality holds the view that our gritty lives are shot through with the beauty and promise of God.
From Celtic perspective there is free will, but there is also the gift of choosing to enter the flow and rhythm of the dreams of the Divine. Here is life-giving paradox.
By intentionally seeking to become inwardly still, learning to pay attention to our intuition, we can begin to be attuned to the compassionate plans of the Divine.
In my experience when we do this things are able to come together, flowing more beautifully than could ever have been imagined. Life does not become easy, but it becomes unblocked.
There is wisdom here.
Blessings on your journey,Rev. Sally Douglas
The Highlands Cluster is made up of 6 congregations. Settings are diverse; ranging from farming communities and tree-change towns, to the cafe' latte set.
Whilst worship and community service vary across these settings, in each of these places we seek to create authentic space to encounter the Divine, an open place of welcome and the inclusion of all, and freedom for the questions at the heart of life and spirituality.
As a Christian community, made up of ordinary people, we seek to follow in the way of Jesus, whom we believe is the Wisdom of God.
