Come along for Messy Easter to celebrate the greatest story ever told.
We’ll play, talk and explore the story together, followed by dinner and an Easter egg hunt.
All are welcome!
Contact Bethany for more details.
You are all welcome to our annual Messy Christmas Extravaganza! Yippee!!
We’ll have all of our usual fun activities, crafts and games, as well as a celebration time and a shared meal. (Meal is provided – please let us know if you have dietary requirements.)
If you have friends who you think would like to join us at Messy Church, please bring them along with you.
Contact Sandy Brodine for more information.
Christmas is coming soon, and that means that the season of Advent is nearly upon us!
Advent is the time of year when we wait for the coming of the baby Jesus. There are stories of ‘getting ready’ for Jesus in the gospels: In Luke we have the story of the Angel appearing to Mary and telling her not to fear because her baby was from God and would bring joy and peace to the world. And in Matthew we hear of Joseph having a dream where an angel tells him not to fear, and to look after Mary and the baby. I wonder how it felt for Mary and Joseph to have these strange dreams?
We’ll have all of our usual fun activities, crafts and games, as well as a celebration time and a shared meal. If you have friends who you think would like to join us at Messy Church, please bring them along with you.
For more information contact Sandy Brodine
It’s Messy Church again this coming Sunday, and we can’t wait to see you there.
This month we’re going to be talking all about Baptism! It’s going to be a great opportunity for those families who are interested in learning what Baptism is all about, as well as an opportunity for those of us who have been baptised to ‘remember’ our baptism, and have a think about what it’s all about!
If you have a photo of your baptism, please bring it with you – whatever age you are! We’ll have all of our usual fun activities, crafts and games, as well as a celebration time and a shared meal. (Meal is provided – please let us know if you have dietary requirements.
If you have friends who you think would like to join us at Messy Church, please bring them along with you.
Contact Sandy Brodine for more information.
Messy Church this Sunday is going to be all about Sabbath and Rest.
We’ll be drawing, sculpting, making prayer beads, building blanket forts and reading stories.
Of course there will be singing, praying and reflecting together on what it means to rest, with a shared meal to follow.
Please contact Sandy Brodine for more information.
For something a bit different this month, we’re going to think about “The Fruits of the Spirit.”
St Paul wrote to some of the early Christian Communities and gave them lots of advice. He told them that if they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they’d exhibit these fruits in their lives. How will we explain these in Minecraft? I have NO IDEA – but I bet whatever our miners build, will blow my mind!
Join us this Sunday for our second Messy Miners for 2023 on Zoom and in Minecraft.
Because we’re going to focus on the fruits of the spirit and how we might describe and build them, there’s no script this month… just come along prepared to have some fun!
Contact Sandy Brodine for details.
It’s Messy Church time again this weekend – and we are all looking forward to catching up!
This time we’re going to be thinking about an unusual passage from the book of Zechariah. It’s a strange story with the message to ‘Have Courage – God is Always With Us’ and will work with us to rebuild a better world.
We’ll have all of our usual fun, games and craft activities, followed by our ‘celebration’ worship time and a shared meal. We will be having a pizza dinner, so if you are able to make a donation of $5 per ‘adult-sized’ person (including biggish kids) that would be great.
Contact Sandy Brodine for more information.
See the video below made by the Messy Miners in June 2023, telling the story of Joseph and his Dreams.
Contact Sandy Brodine if you would like to be involved in future Messy Miner sessions!
It’s July – and that means it’s time for our Messy Church Movie night.
The hall will be set up to be nice and warm and we’ll watch the movie together on the big screen.
This year we’re going to watch the fabulous movie ‘Encanto’!
Join us this Sunday 16th July 2023.
We’ll meet from 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm at Ivanhoe Uniting Church, Seddon St, Ivanhoe.
Contact Rev Sandy Brodine for more details.
We are pleased to announce a three-session Messy Miners season for Winter 2023.
It’s a great way to spend a cold winter’s Sunday afternoon at home online with your friends building stories in Minecraft.
Our story this month will be about Joseph, a boy whose father gave him a beautiful coat to show him his love. His jealous brothers threw him into a well and then he was sold into slavery in Egypt. Joseph went on to work for the Pharaoh and had many amazing dreams. It’ll be a great story to build!
Our first Messy Miners for 2023 will happen on Sunday 25th June, 4pm-6pm on Zoom and in Minecraft.
Please contact Sandy at sandybrodine@gmail.com for more information.
We are a Christian community of faith in the Banyule region, made up of congregations and communities of the Uniting Church. We have chosen to work together to love and serve God in our neighbourhood and the wider world. We warmly welcome you to share with us in worship, and in our community life and outreach.