What's in a name?

Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed." Genesis 32:28

What does it mean to receive a new name? It can be a source of joy and of grief - both, intertwined. Cafechurch has been on a long journey together, and as we start on this new adventure, we have to ask ourselves: who are we?

Tuesday 18/10/22 at 7pm at Chalice - Northcote Uniting Church. BYO dinner, we can fix you up with a sneaky beverage.

Image: Fortt, Annette Gandy. Jacob and the Angel, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56023 [retrieved October 13, 2022]. Original source: annettefortt.com.