Minister's musings(posts)

2022, 14th August

By Rose Kentwell | August 12, 2022

Greetings … The Church Council shall give priority in its life to building up the Congregation in faith and love, sustaining its members in hope and leading the Congregation to…

2022, 7th August

By Rose Kentwell | August 5, 2022

Greetings … We are being given a gift!  That’s how Harriet opened the devotions that she shared with Church Council on Wednesday night.  What she shared was powerful and I…

2022, 31st July

By Rose Kentwell | July 29, 2022

Greetings …                      The tree by my swing                      Has green buds in spring                      In summer it shades me                      Cool from hot sun                      Autumn sets my tree…

2022, 17th July

By Rose Kentwell | July 15, 2022

Greetings …Things don’t always go the way you intended do they! No matter how careful you are with planning some things, disruptions come along that you couldn’t foresee and are…

2022, 3rd July

By Rose Kentwell | July 1, 2022

DID YOU. HAVE A DESK WHEN YOU BEGAN SCHOOL? My Mum, Marguerite McDonald began school in 1915 at Creswick No 122 in a school which had been built by Anthony…

2022, 26th June

By Rose Kentwell | June 24, 2022

Greetings … Do you remember knitting a climate scarf last year?  Well, if you did, this cold weather is a perfect time to get it out again, wear it and…

2022, 19th June

By Rose Kentwell | June 17, 2022

Greetings … This coming week the Uniting Church will celebrate its 45th birthday.  This is significant and the time which defines the onset of middle age.  Maybe it should be…

2022, 12th June

By Rose Kentwell | June 10, 2022

Greetings … … and happy Trinity Sunday.  Trinity Sunday is celebrated on first Sunday after Pentecost, which is the 50th day after Easter, and celebrates the mystery of faith and…

2022, 29th May

By Rose Kentwell | May 28, 2022

Greetings,We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship’ (Matthew 2:2).This verse is the chosen text for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, celebrated in…

2022, 22nd May

By Rose Kentwell | May 20, 2022

This week I have been thinking about peace … or the seeming lack of it as I look around.  Images of war and death are punctuated by those of election…