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Feb 5 - UpperRoom - About Face (Indigenous)

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 Monday we will be looking at indigenous issues from the point of view of the About Face project. About Faith And Culture Exchange. It is a 3 week exposure run by the UCA and Congress. Where you have the privilege of living with an indigenous community to listen and simply be. It is not a work party, not a holiday but an exchange of cultures that hopefully will send ripples of reconciliation and understanding through you and your communities. This month we will have people who went on About Face 7 last year (plus a couple from other years) willing to share their stories, plus Age who helps with the project and we have invited other indigenous friends who may or may not see this as a space for them. (We recognise that inviting indigenous people into our space on our terms is often not a safe place for them and feeds the imbalances of our colonial past. It is a much more the way of Jesus for us to take the dangerous journey into indigenous places on their terms.)

A big thanks to our friends at Narana Creations who have lent us local indigenous art for the night (for sale if you are keen). Cya there.