The story goes that in 1999 or thereabouts Steve Venour, the youth pastor of a Christian City Church Whitehorse, together with a few of the slightly edgy younger people from the congregation went to the elders and told them that they, these younger people, were a bit over standard Evangelical worship, and were thinking that they might like to do something a bit more culturally appropriate for Gen X (it was a little while ago of course.)
Cafechurch is committed to being a safe place for children and other vulnerable people. Our Culture of Safety Contact Person is Jocelyn Winterson.
You can read about the UCA's commitment to safe church at the UCA Synod of Victoria and Tasmania's Keeping Children Safe site, and you can read the Reportable Conduct policy here.
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Our first night back for the year, and Anne’s induction as Missional Spirituality Pastor! And there will even be a sermon!
A contemplative Eucharist (aka communion). Music, prayer, contemplation, silence, communion. No matter if we are full or peace or chaotic, joyous or in despair, God can meet with us.
Join us at 31/1/2023 at Northcote Uniting Church We eat together at 7pm and then have the spiritual bit from 8.
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We have spent quite a bit of time over 2022 thinking about our new situation - moving from being a bunch of friends sitting in a pub to being the local Uniting Church congregation in Northcote is a big change. As part of this, we spent some time working on getting to grips with what we are really about at a deep level. Is there more to our life together than eating dinner in a pub? We used an Ignatian approach, facilitated by Fr Michael Smith SJ, a very experienced spiritual director, among other things, and this what we have come up with so far.
We are part of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Presbytery of Port Philip West. In 2019 we became the seed of a renewed congregation at Chalice - Northcote UCA. We are meeting there regularly, and seeking to explore what it means to be the church in Northcote.
How do I live? This is the question which urgently presents itself to me. I’m not able to splash about on the surface of life, consoling myself with toys and happy experiences, and closing my eyes to the dark, but perhaps life-giving, depths down beneath my little rowing boat. I need a satisfying spirituality to help me to steer my course through the endless succession of random events and non-sequiturs of my life.
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Cafechurch is a church that meets in a bar in Fitzroy, in inner city Melbourne. But why? Is it just that we like drinking beer and talking about God? The first in a series, this presentation attempts to describe the spiritual situation in Australia, and more broadly in the context of modernism, secularism, and the post-Christendom situation. These processes are not entirely distinct, but broadly, modernity has led to the loss of the taken-for-grantedness of Christianity, which has in turn led to the church(es), once central to society and culture, becoming increasingly marginalised.
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This is presentation I did for participants from the Fresh Expressions - Mission Shaped Ministry gathering, on 30/1/14. It talks a bit about the history, but a lot more about what we have been learning together.
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To contact us, email Alister: info [at] cafechurch.org or call 03 7019 3135. Cafechurch is part of the Chalice - Northcote Congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia
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