Weekly letter from St Luke's - 31 October, 2025
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
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 24 October 2025
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
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 17th October, 2025
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
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 10 October 2025
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
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 3 October 2025
Dear Parish Friends Rev. Timothy and June are on holidays now until Friday 17 th October. Fr Denis Galloway will conduct our services...
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 26 September 2025
Dear Parish Friends This Sunday is the final week of the season of creation, and our attention is turned to 'Cosmos Sunday'. The...
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 19th September 2025
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...
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 12th September 2025
Dear Parish Friends This second week of the Season of Creation focus on 'Flora and Fauna'. We continue to read from Psalm 104 and Job 39...
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 5 September 2025
Dear Parish Friends This week we start the 'season of creation' with Ocean Sunday. We reflect that oceans play an important role in all...
Weekly letter from St Luke's - 29th August 2025
Dear Parish Friends Our gospel passage this week from Luke 14 centres on an important aspect of being the church, that of welcoming. Why...


