UpperRoom - Development

October 6, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about the aid and development options. We will have the info, resources and a discussion with Jill from J.I.M. Plus an online game where you can try to match your understanding of the issues against poverty in 3rd world farmer. Should be educational and slightly addictive.

Cya there.

NCYC09 Spam/propaganda = CD+DVD and Songbook

Crazy Dancin’ Kat we call her

Converge [LIVE] - the CD+DVD and Songbook

NCYC09 is celebrating the launch of Converge [LIVE] - the CD+DVD and Songbook of great new worship music, recorded live, and available now! You can download CONVERGE for free right now by just inviting a friend to download the song too!
Find out more, and also check out a trailer of the DVD at the Converge [LIVE] page, or you can order online right now!

Upperroom - Faiths

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about the different faiths. We will have the info, resources and a discussion guide with reflections from ‘Speaking of Faiths’ and view doc of the Chicago Inter Faith youth Core. There was some chatter about a group of young people who were interviewed from a few different faiths but I don’t think they will be with us. Also, some interesting images to spark conversations.

Cya there.

Upperroom - New Venue Search & Review

Ok Guys Last night I found out that the S-bar has sold. So a big thanks to the S-Bar owners and staff for being great hosts. Now of course, we will need to find a new home for the upperroom.  So next month we will be in a different space. somewhere???

Assuming people want to keep going.

So this also creates a natural space to have review of the upper room project.

What is good,useful etc?

What needs work?

The vision=

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Upperroom - Jason and his Guitar

August 4, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be listening and thinking about the ideas within Jason Mann’s songs. Songs of justice, faith, hope and meaning. Jas will play some sets and have some table discussion material on lyrics and themes in his art. Some differnt this m onth - bring ya friends. Age

Upperroom - Exposure

July 7, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about internships, partnership, work parties, exposures and other experiences that help us see a wider world. There will be a dv of Ringwood UCA work party with their partner church in India.(They are returning in Jan09) Jen & Austin will be with us to chat about that time. Plus, Niki will be with us to sharing her expereince of being a nurse in Africa.  So, make sure you chat with them on the night. (hint, hint) Plus, info on groups and all our combined expereices in this area.

Brand New Christian Music Being Recorded this Saturday!

Hi Guys and Gals! - Hope you are having an AWESOME week!

Just wanting to let you know that on Saturday night  (28th June) the UCA will be doing a LIVE RECORDING of the music that will be used at the National Christian Youth Convention in January 2009 (ncyc.org.au). I have heard a selection of the music being recorded on Saturday and it sounds very cool indeed!

On the night we will not only be recording a CD but also a DVD! So if you have ever wanted to make a CD/DVD then this is your chance! Come on down to Glen Waverley Uniting Church, cnr Bogong Ave and Kingsway, Glen Waverley (Mel Ref 71 C3). You can come and learn the songs, meet some of the writers and have a ball from 2pm, $5 dinner is at 6pm and at 7pm the recording button is hit and we will be on our way to creating one of the best CD/DVDs going around!

So come and be a part of it! Bring all your friends and families! More info at ncyc.org.au and morefocus.org.au! NCYC Live Recording Video

Scared Space/CafePraxis @SYG

So if your interested in seeing and reading about what we got up to at the State Youth Games check out Christop’s blog

UpperRoom - Community - Jonny Baker

June 2, 2008
6:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.We hope the upper room will be

• Space to rest/relax with your tribe
• Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
• Connect with heartbeats for living

There will be food, wine and friends plus

• a gallery space for photos and other art.
• activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
• conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about building communities and what creates a healthy community be it a faith community or an intentional community of ‘normal’ people and their passions . I will be making a conversation menu to engage with and trigger some topics.

Plus we will have with us Jonny Baker from the UK. Jonny Baker lives in London a member of grace , an alternative worship community or emergingchurch a photographer and one of the co-ordinator of worship at greenbelt arts festival. He will not be presenting a seminar/talk but rather moving between our tables adding another perspective to our conversations on community. Also, we will have some of the resources and art he has been working on.

As always there will be others of our tribe to eat, drink and chat with and some art from Jonny’s world, info etc to fuel the conversation . So cya there. Bring your friends. All are welcome

Jubilee Sunday

May 18, 2008

This is part of the on-going campaign by Jubilee Australia for the cancellation of the unpayable component of developing country debts. For a congregation to become a Jubilee Congregation go to http://jubilee.worldsecuresystems.com/church_resources There are also prayer and liturgy materials on the website under ‘Get Active’. To participate in an action for World Debt Day to lobby the Australian Government for policies that promote global justice please go to the website http://www.jubileeaustralia.org

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