Palm Sunday Peace March 2010

Build not Bomb

palm-sunday-poster (poster pdf - pls distribute)

Plus there’s a Vigil against the war on Afghanistan
Tue 16 March, 4-6pm, Defence Plaza, 661 Bourke St, Melbourne.

Surrender 2010

Hi Guys,

Have you registered for surrender conference yet? Well get onto it. Good speakers and workshops are the norm, including this year has Dave Andrews “plan be” stuff  and workshops run by the usual suspects of the radical discipleship, social justice and peace  mobs.  Oh and tear are running slum survivor plus the youth night is a fun celebration. So cya there.

What is it?

SURRENDER is a message (and a conference!) that invites and encourages Jesus followers on a journey from believer to disciple. It’s an invitation to follow Jesus among the poor, to influence the broader climate of church opinion and sow seeds for the future of incarnational mission. SURRENDER does this by focussing primarily on inspiring young adults to engage directly with God through the bible, people facing oppression and fellow disciples on the road.

http://surrender.org.au/

morepraxis gathering 2010

It is time to think about 2010.

praxis10 - ???

Think, pray, play and meet with more of your tribe who long for a Christian spirituality that interconnects social action and theological reflection.
Been waiting for this? Good, so have we.

Where: Clifford Park Scouts camp site - Clifford Rd, Wonga Park VIC (Melways 24 J6)
45 mins from Melbourne
Online Rego soon and facebook event to help spam the gathering soonish

Costs PP: $45 Cabin, $30 Camp, Food $25 Adult/$15 Kids, Day Pass (including lunch & Dinner) $35, Dinner $30

This is an All Play event - Come ready to share.

You have been preparing all your life to lead a conversation on something - come prepared to engage that conversation but don’t stress on the preparation. Currently options include  ‘lightning talks’ (your 5minutes of fame to spark more conversations), sacred space installation, labyrinth, teepee time, a tech hub, activist hub, a kids quest, sumo suit and music + your ideas/talents we would enjoy??

Also, there will be a space set aside for participants to propaganda/promote their group, cause, next action, t-shirt, study, book…. you get the idea. (byo  for your promo space)

If you are at a junction where you need to think and chat about your vocation and the direction of your life with active, prayerful and wise mentors and co-travelers … there will be a bunch at praxis>10 to bounce ideas with.

If you are a family that is interested in connecting social justice and spirituality then this gathering has space for your needs. The site is well equipped for free play and organised chaos

Check out last year here http://www.regonline.com/praxis09

Put this in your diaries and help shape what we do here in the comments bit-

From the feedback from of last time - people like the campsite and all the options of how to attend, the dinner with guest speaker (Last year the infamous Lin H-D), the lightning talks, hanging out with interesting people and their families and the set workshops. Basically the shape was pretty good we just need a better way to signal when the next thing is starting and have some more teams.

The tricky bit is the feed back that a high point was meeting with different groups trying different things and that this is what was attractional to whether or not peeps came. SO that means for interesting people to come they need to know that interesting people are coming. Chickens and eggs comes to mind. So if you are coming and will be wowing us with your lightning talks and stories of fun adventures we need to know ahead of time so we can advertise you will be with us  Great plan isn’t it!!

UpperRoom - MPH RoadTrip

Welcome Back!

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

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month Upper Room -   We will have all the info for getting involved with the MAKEpovertyHISTORY road trip in May. Check their website here and our info here.

Basically it is 1000 16-26 yr olds traveling from the capital cities through marginal seats cause trouble and raising issues of poverty - converging in Canberra for a sum it with speakers, workshop bands etc.  UCA is partnerin with our halls, cooks, agencies and trouble making ways

Get on board.

Oh and naturally we need ideas for the UpperRoom for the rest of the year and if you want to chat about the young adult hub … please do

Facebook event if your on it

morepraxis eastside

Hi peeps I am here to recruit you.

The St Stephen’s Community Living Centre (SSCLC) has granted us (by us I mean you and me) a year to see what a morepraxis young adult hub may look like, get up to and become.

SSCLC is where Ringwood East UC  congregation used to meet before joining up with Ringwood UC.  We have the opportunity to help develope with SSCLC the church end of the building to be a more arty and spirituality type of space for us and the community. Very cool.

I would like to begin this thrilling adventure with a weekly Young Adult gathering and running an easter week  art installation.

What will we do? Well naturally the weekly group would be open to be  shaped by the needs of the group.  However as base I am keen to host this group with time spent on growing personal discipleship/spirituality, time to focus on projects that members have back in their own congregations, action groups etc and some input that help both of these. I hope we will be YAs who are looking for a place to think, chat, question and grow (and don’t get it in other places) and YAs who are busy leading groups but need something for themselves. Basically I hope we strengthen each other to do new and better things back in our existing world but with a new place to find support and whinge.

In my official chats with SSLC it goes a little something like this…

morepraxis hub “seeks to encourage, coach and engage young adults to be active locally and deeper spiritually”.

Hub = a network of Young Adults in the region meeting to grow in discipleship and support each other. Sharing their faith journey and supporting helping each other with their ministry and projects

Locally = members in congregations on the eastside, leaders of youth groups, action groups and communities where they currently participate

Coaching = host/key leader and peers meeting to bounce ideas off and help think through missional, creative and radical initiatives.

The goals of the hub would be

• Firstly to create a place for people to grow in discipleship while not removing people from their local contexts & communities.
• Secondly, to create a strong network of Young Adults that can help our UCA start and sustain new endeavors.
• Thirdly, to simply create a space for young adults to explore, question and grow in their spirituality.

So if you are a keen to join the organising group or simply interstetd in joingning the group.  Contact me. age@morepraxis.org.au

Currently the organising group has Tess, Jen, Rod and myself… the group itself has at least one other member not on the team… so you see we do need you to join.

(This will be too far away from many but it is a start and I am happy to see and help other morepraxis hubs pop up westside, southside, broadside, farside wherever… )

So What do you think?

UCAyouth Kickoff

UCA YOUTH KICKOFF on the 30^th of Jan.

As you can see we have a great line up of Simeon, Tam Peters and DJ Rave’nMad. Check out Simeon and Tam’s websites, they have samples of their music.

We are inviting you with your friends to go the beach for the arvo then have fish and chips for dinner before you walk up the road to St Andrews where we will have the open air café happening and dance hall going off.

This is a great chance for groups to kick off the year together and be part of the wider community of young people in VicTas. If you are from the country and would like to stay overnight, please get in touch with me and we can organise something.

If you are unable to make it to our gathering can I suggest you get together with your group and go out for dinner. This way you can be part of the greater gathering even though you are unable to make it to Black Rock. If this is what you are doing then please let me know about it.

cya all there!!

Facebook event here

Feast of the Holy Innocents

Feast of the Holy Innocents: Prayers and peace procession from Victoria Barracks to Defence Plaza, 1pm-3pm.

In the days after Christmas, while most people are recovering from the indulgence of Christmas Day or deeply immersed in the liturgy of the Boxing Day Test, the Church calendar commemorates the Holy Innocents, the children killed by Herod in a bid to maintain his grip on power.  This is a part of the Christmas story which gets little attention in churches, yet it forms a major part of the biblical birth narrative.  It is a day when we remember children and other innocent people killed by today’s Herods, who consider such innocents to be acceptable collateral damage in their quest for power and security.  Children are still the most deeply affected by wars around the globe – 60% of Afghans are under the age of 21.  90% of those killed in wars now are civilians.

Join us for a peace procession from Victoria Barracks in Melbourne to Defence Plaza.  We will begin at 1pm with prayers at Victoria Barracks on St Kilda Road, and process to Defence Plaza, 661 Bourke St. Melbourne, for further prayer and reflection.

Peace Christmas Carol Service

~ With 30 wars currently going on around the globe,

Advent.  A time when we wait upon the coming of the Prince of Peace whose life and teachings save us from the violence that exists within ourselves.

We invite you to wait this year and carol with us at Lockheed Martin (world’s number 1. weapons manufactor) here in Dandenong.

Tuesday 15th Dec

4:30-6pm

@ 208 Princess Hwy, Dandenong

Please bring Christmas decorations and signs for peace

~ With 30 wars currently going on around the globe,

Advent.  A time when we wait upon the coming of the Prince of Peace whose life and teachings save us from the violence that exists within ourselves.

We invite you to wait this year and carol with us at Lockheed Martin (world’s number 1. weapons manufactor) here in Dandenong.

Tuesday 15th Dec

4:30-6pm

@ 208 Princess Hwy, Dandenong

Please bring Christmas decorations and signs for peace

UpperRoom - Christmas

Christmas, Consumption, Sustainable bits and bobs

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

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month Upper Room -   We have Jonathan Cornford from Mana Gum coming to share some environment/sustainable living ideas. Also, we will have the Everything in Common and Tear gift catalogues, environmental christmas info idea, maybe some share appeal gift tags for asylum seekers you know the usual. (Plus, There could be a buy nothing christmas action to conspire with too.)

Facebook event if your on it

Cya All there.

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