Tag: Church and Community

Busselton Uniting Church will once again bring the bush indoors for their annual Wildflower Exhibition from Thursday 18 to Friday 19 September. Come and enjoy the wonderful  presentation of specimens and displays.

Also on display will be  beanies, woodturning, a video, photos, the Geographe Community Nursery plus teas, lunches, cakes, crafts and produce. Tammie Reid, Rural Leadership Fellow is the guest speaker and Vasse Primary School Choir will perform.

The official opening is at 2.00pm on Thursday 18 September. Admission is $10 adults, $6 pensioners, and children are  free. For more information, contact Linda Stephenson at bsnuca@westnet.com.au or call 9752 3304.

I am very fortunate to have inherited the Music Scholarship Scheme at Uniting Church in the City, Wesley Perth. It is a really lovely idea and I feel very blessed to work with these young musicians. This year we have five scholars who work on a roster of playing on Sundays, playing music for reflection at the start of the worship service and during the offering. In the past some have played with the choir. We have made a string quartet up and they have accompanied the choir and the singing scholars with excerpts from, for example,  Messiah.

The other lovely thing that shows, is that scholars from the past tend to have a lot of Wesley members coming  along to their recitals at university even after they have left Wesley. The  scholars aren’t necessarily Christians but they do tend to say, especially at the end of the year, ‘Wesley is special, it’s so nice performing here and it’s lovely performing in a place  where we aren’t judged.’ It seems to be a very positive experience for them and of course they get paid.

Gingin Uniting Church (formerly a Methodist Church of Australia) is one of Western Australia’s most historic rural churches, and will be celebrating 160 years since the first service  was held. A service will be held at 10.00am on Sunday 13 July led by a former minister, Rev Harry Lucas, with an address given by the moderator, Rev Ron Larkin. We will also be  dedicating a stained glass window in the porch on that day and sharing a light lunch.

In 1964, Glenn Coughlan was invited to be foundation organist at Nedlands Methodist Church when its pipe organ, built by Paul Hufner, was installed. The organ was refurbished and  extended in 1996 by John Larner and is now being maintained by Graham Devenish of Pipe Organs WA Ltd.

Glenn has seen many changes during his fifty years there: from Nedlands Methodist to Aldersgate to Nedlands Uniting Church with various ministers. The church choir, under Glenn’s  leadership, has sung numerous sacred works and, combined with a small orchestra, has led many special services, especially on Christmas Eve each year when hundreds of people have  attended and given generous support to the Christmas Bowl Appeal.