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Dear Parish Friends On this last Sunday of the church's year, the feast of Christ the King. It seems a fitting end to a cycle where we celebrated Jesus' incarnation, his life, his death, his resurrection and his ascension - finally his reigning on high. As we reflect on what saying Christ is King means, we see that he brings this kingdom from heaven to earth, from eternity to our time, and so we look forward to restarting the liturgical cycle next week with Advent, looking fo

Dear Parish Friends As the church year nears its end, we have a reading, from Luke 21, about dire predictions of destruction and persecution, before the 'end of times'. But the passage is not so much about predicting the future - Luke was writing after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 and so much of what was described had already happened. Rather it is a message of what people of faith should do in such circumstances. There are two things that we are reminded of: God's pr

Dear Parish Friends As the church year moves to its conclusion later this month, we are up to the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost and our readings focus on 'what happens next'. The prophet Haggai assures his hearers that God's spirit continues to abide with them - they need not fear. Paul, to the Thessalonians, implores them to stand firm, sure in the knowledge of their salvation. Then in Luke's gospel, Jesus responds to a question about life after death by telling his listeners

Dear Parish Friends Saturday 1st November is All Saints Day (hence today, 31st October is All Hallows Eve, 'All Hallows being an old name for 'All Saints') and 2nd November is All Souls Day. Both these celebrations encourage us to reflect on the whole church on earth and in heaven. All Saints Day originated in the 4th century as there were so many that the church wanted to honour that there were not enough days in the year! Following St Paul, we take this as cause to give tha

Dear Parish Friends After our patronal festival last week, this weekend we look forward to growing our church in its 102nd year. Yes, it is our desire to see more people come to follow Jesus, but, as the particular way in which we play out our mission is through St Luke's Ekibin, we need to focus on what that means. We need to seek ways in which we can offer an inclusive welcome, ways in which we can engender spiritual growth in young and old, and also ways to enable the plac

Dear Parish Friends June and I are now back from our trip out to see the dinosaurs in central Queensland. I thank Rev'd Denis and the wardens for all that they have done over the last few weeks in the parish. I also gather that the parish stall at Annerley JunctionFest went well and also raised over $800 - thanks to all who participated. This Sunday is our patronal festival, the feast of St Luke, and so we will have a single service for the whole of the parish at 9am. This wi

Dear Parish Friends Rev. Timothy and June are on holidays now until Friday 17 th  October. Fr Denis Galloway will conduct our services again this weekend. Our Sunday services are as usual at 7am and 9am, with Zoom streaming at 9am. Children's Church starts again for Term 4 at our 9am service. The service sheet for the 9am service and the week's Notice Paper are available via the links below. Note there is landscaping works happening in the front lawn area - no access to this

Dear Parish Friends Rev. Timothy and June are on holidays now until Friday 17 th  October. Fr Denis Galloway will conduct our services...

Dear Parish Friends This Sunday is the final week of the season of creation, and our attention is turned to 'Cosmos Sunday'. The...

Dear Parish Friends We move this week to 'Storm Sunday' in the season of creation. Here 'Storm' refers to the world of the weather, the...