Melbourne is an extremely multicultural city which is exciting. I walked out of church after the luncheon and down the street to a huge Buddha's Day celebration for Buddha's birthday in the heart of the city. I better go and finish packing.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hello Friends
My time in Australia is slipping by quickly. I added a couple more pictures. One is another of St.Michael's from across the street giving you a sense of its presence in the city. The other church is across from St. Michael's and it is Scots Presbyterian Church. The Congregationalists, Methodists and Presbyterians united in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia but there remains a few Presbyterian churches that tend to be very conservative and evangelical.
The other picture is a protest I stumbled across in the city on Saturday against Human Rights abuses in China.
I have a meeting tonight( Monday) with the Leadership at St. Michael's. I am off to Adelaide (where we lived for ten years and where both Jacob and Jonah were born) tomorrow for two days. I am conducting a Memorial Service at St. Michael's on Thursday. I am speaking at The Cairnmillar Institute on Friday. After church on Sunday, I am giving a talk at a luncheon. Whew!
I will try to post some pictures from Adelaide. have a great week!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
I am hoping to attend an Australian Rules Football game tomorrow (combination of football and soccer and rugby) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. We enjoy hotdogs at the baseball. They have meatpies and sauce ( ketchup) at the footie.
I am devastated by the catastrophe in Myanmar. It is hard to fathom the extent of the devastation. The head of World Vision Australia has said over 100,000 are dead and millions left homeless. It is hard to know what any one person can do to help but we all must do something..."...as one suffers, all suffer". As I baptize a child this Sunday and affirm her worth and value I also remember that half of those killed in this disaster were children whose lives were sacred and equally precious in God's eyes.
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