This is a place
- where you can meet and worship with people of all ages and backgrounds as well as enjoy a range of activities;
- which helps give adults and children an appreciation of the dimensions of life and the values by which to live;
- which has a contemporary understanding of the Christian faith and a non-literal understanding of scriptures;
- which provides a caring and supportive community which tries to take seriously that we are all loved by God and directed by Jesus to love one another.
Wembley Downs Uniting Church - A place for radical Worship and a place for Radicals to Worship
Worship at Wembley Downs is multi-faceted. The first Sunday in the month is dedicated to diversity. On the second Sunday, we seek simplicity. On the third Sunday we have our Liturgical Service. On the fourth Sunday we push the envelope and go beyond the boundaries. The word `Radical` is derived from the Latin word for `root`. On this fourth Sunday, we return to the root of our faith and seek to re-narrate it for our day and generation. We run the risk of irrelevancy if we look back and speak of a world that has gone.
On Sunday, 4 December 2011, a large crowd gathered to share in the special Service of Commissioning of Karen Sloan as Pastor at Wembley Downs Uniting Church. Karen is known to us as our Local Minister.
The service of worship was led by the Revd Pr... click to continue
1 January: Revd Marion Millin
8 January: Revd Marion Millin (5pm, Cafe Church)
15 January : Revd Marion Millin (Third Sunday, Communion)
22 January: Terry Quinn
29 January: Karen Sloan
First Sunday Forum will resume in March.... click to continue
Each October, our local YouthCARE group runs a book and
baked goods stall at the Wembley Downs District Fair to raise
funds for chaplaincy at Churchlands Senior High School.
In 2011, the net proceeds totalled a remarkable
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RECENTLY, ELAINE LEDGERWOOD RECEIVED HER DOCTORATE from Murdoch University.
This is the synopsis of her thesis which was supervised by Dr Alexander Jenson and Professor Patricia Harris.
The Desert Shall Bloom: A Dialogue between Experiences of... click to continue
At Wembley Downs UC a preaching plan is distributed three times a year and each issue carries an article on the theme of worship written by a member of the Worship Committee. This is the article written by Karen for the current issue - December 2011 ... click to continue
FEATURE WRITER ZOLTAN KOVACS commented in The West Australian newspaper 27th August, 2011, on the 2012 London Olympics and the two hundredth birthday anniversary of Charles Dickens - both occurring next year - in an article headed What the Dickens h... click to continue
At the September First Sunday Forum,a panel consisting of Karen Sloan, Revd Marion Millin and Revd Neville Watson addressed the question: What is your view of Prayer? Here follows a summary of their responses, edited by Karen Sloan.
Introduction
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Matthew 18:21-35
Do you recall the story of the Israelites escape from Egypt led by Moses and assisted by God who parts the waters of the Red Sea to enable them to cross and then helpfully restores the waters drowning every last one of the pursuing ... click to continue
`It`s so hard being a single parent,` the mother says
`She`s been such a difficult daughter since her father left
never wanting to be with me or talk to me
always busy, out with her friends till late.`
Anxiety is written over the mother`s face
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130 Calais Road, (crnr of Minibah Street)
Wembley Downs, Western Australia.
Phone 08 9245 2882
Ten kilometres northwest of Perth city centre,
set amongst the suburbs of City Beach, Churchlands, Scarborough, Wembley Downs and Woodlands
