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2 Wolseley Grove
St Leonard’s Brighton Beach 3186
MESSAGE
Tel. (03) 9592 9333
Email: contactstleonards@gmail.com.
www.stleonards.org.au
April 2022
Minister: Kim Cain
MINISTER’S MEANDERINGS
War in Europe, again. Who would have believed take a further step in this story: we see life in
it? Images from old World War II newsreels play the resurrection of hope beyond death; of God’s
out again with pictures of traumatised refugees, way present even in a broken world.
whole towns obliterated by bombing, and the
smoking machinery of war in tatters on the sides This is a story with a long memory: it has
of roads, flickering across our screens. survived war after war, human atrocity and
violence one after another. It is alive because
Obviously, we’re concerned about all of this. we need hope that love can find a better way.
Hostile monstrous political leaders awaken In faith we can invest in a deeper life than just
when we thought they had been chained inside a material ‘turning away.’ By honestly facing
international peace agreements, and a modern the reality of our human situation; we are still
mind set. Clearly, not. inspired to act with compassion, in truth and for
good.
At last count in the year 2022 there are 22 wars
taking place around the world. (A sad symmetry We step out in this faith day by day in the way
of 22’s there!) In four of the wars more than we live.
10,000 people have been killed: Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, Mexico, and Yemen. Easter is a time to re-engage with this hope.
Let’s take the step and begin again.
Nevertheless, whilst it is not on our radar, we
have somehow inoculated ourselves against New life is like that. Wars and rumours of wars
the reality of war in the world, even though it is are forever with us, but so is the rumour of God
extensive. alive through it all. For Christians, it is in Christ
that we live this new life of God.
This all goes to say that there remains within
the human condition a falling towards violence Easter greetings to
as a means to an end. Which is all rather sad. one and all
Not what we had hoped for our modern world.
Kim
We feel powerless to change it. To
psychologically defend ourselves we turn away.
We have enough to think about, anyway.
Enter the Easter story. It, too, is violent. Jesus is
executed by the state at the behest of the crowd
and religious leaders. And yet, as Christians we
CHURCH COUNCIL UPDATE
Hi everyone the start of 2022 is starting to shape The new website is up and running - and looks
as a return to a more normal situation with many GREAT!!! If you haven’t yet had the chance to
restrictions lifting. Church Council has met on see it please visit and have a look. If any changes
the 8 February and 8 March 2022, with the are required please let me know and we will
AGM on 3rd April. The following provides a brief get them adjusted or updated as necessary. At
update on some of the CC activities underway. present Kim’s daily Lent 2022 1.1.40 messages
are available each time you open the website.
Church Life Survey
The periodic Church Life Worship Services
Survey was scheduled to We plan to continue the 10am combined
be completed at the end of livestream services at least through to Easter,
2021, but the timehas been though we are looking to have some alternate
extended to at least the end worship options as well. Messy Church
of March. St Leonards has recommenced in February and we had a New
chosen to participate, so If Wave ‘gathering under the pine tree’ at the
you haven’t already completed one, see Rick end of February. Ingrid is continuing to be the
Lang for survey forms or go to the website mainstay of the music at our services with
attendersurvey.ncls.org.au. You will need to put varied offerings from a supporting cast of our
in the Code UA2B3501 at the beginning of the talented musicians from time to time. It was
survey. If you want to use your phone or iPad to great to have the band providing worship music
complete the survey you can also use the QR at the service on 20 March, and are looking to
code above to directly access the survey. establish that at least on the third Sunday each
month. This is a strong focus on our journey
St Leonard’s website back to normal and we will endeavour to keep
https:// www.stleonards.org.au you informed of developments in the planning
of our worship services.
St Leonard’s Uniting Church The Message April 2022 2
Intergenerational Ministry Tennis court works
We are continuing to seek an Intergenerational The timing of the tennis court works has been
Ministry Agent to further enrich our ministry. A affected by Covid related staff shortages, and
Joint Nominating Committee (JNC) has been work is currently scheduled to occur over the
established and we are working through the Easter School Holiday period, though that may
Synod Placements process. Please join us also be affected by permit issues. In addition,
in praying for the JNC as they undertake this we have applied for a $5,000 grant to commence
important task. We will provide updates when the tennis court landscaping and expect to get
appropriate. confirmation in coming weeks.
Redevelopment Planning Facilities hire
The work on our redevelopment plans has been Most of our groups are now back in full operation
on hold for a few months now but a Project in the hall and the church. We have simplified
Control Group has now been established with this and are looking for someone to be the
Presbytery and UCA Property Services to liaison person with the various groups. If you
manage the process so we can get through are able to take on this role please call me to
planning and building permit processes and discuss the position (0407 261 544).
hopefully get to tender later this year. Peter Hunkin
Chair of Church Council
Coffee Cup Challenge
Pancake Celebration
May 1st
Now that Covid restrictions have eased, we are
going to have a Pancake Feast on Sunday May
the 1st, as a celebration for all our generous
Coffee Cup Challenge participants.
Keep the date free and after church enjoy the
best pancakes you’ve had at church in the last
two years.
The final figure
for the CCC will
be announced at
the Pancake Day
celebration, but
we have already
made a significant
difference to
the care Uniting
can offer to the
homeless.
We hope to see
you all on May 1st.
Barry Schofield
3 The Message April 2022 St Leonard’s Uniting Church
FAMILIES AND CHILDREN Messy Church meets every fourth Sunday at 5pm at St Leonards. On Sunday 27th March, we heard the Easter story, completed Easter crafts and made Easter windmills! You can see Frank arranging the windmills for a photoshoot. We also enjoyed the help of Duncan Turuva, a candidate for ministry who will be at St Leonards on Field Education Placement this year. Kids Spot at St Leonards This year, we’ve done some thinking about how to engage with our children during the Sunday morning service. We don’t like sending the chil- dren away from where the rest of the communi- ty is worshipping, but sometimes the language and activities are aimed at adults not kids. So we have made a Kids’ Spot in the chapel at the front of the church for children’s activities during the service, which is a short skip and a hop to Kim’s chair when he has a Kids’ Spot in the service. When the activity calls for running around and whooping, it’s also a short tumble to the hall through the side door. So, there are now two things called Kids Spot! The Sunday activities in the chapel, and the talk Kim gives on Sunday mornings (except Messy Church Sundays). You are welcome to both. Parents and children! Ennis Macleod St Leonard’s Uniting Church The Message April 2022 4
Caritas - 2nd & 4th
Thursdays 10.30am
This year Caritas ladies have been able to
meet in homes and gardens of participants for
Bible study and fellowship. We began with a
discussion of two paintings by Fr. Sieger Koder
depicting The Last Supper. During Lent we have
been studying a booklet by Australian Anglican
Rev. David Mulraney, entitled “The Farewell
Messages of Jesus”, as found in John’s Gospel.
Meetings are usually held at 10.30 am on the
St Leonards’ Walkers -
second and fourth Thursday during school Term
times, and are planned for April 7th, April 28th, 1st Sundays 1.30pm
May 12th, May 26th, with a coffee morning in the Our first meeting of the year took place on a cool
holidays. Each venue is given in St Leonard’s Sunday afternoon in March, when the group
church notices the week beforehand. Women of gathered opposite Black Rock’s 1959 iconic
all ages welcome. clock tower for a walk around the surrounding
Lyn Greenall area.
The cliff track through native vegetation had
Happy Birthday signs explaining the history of local artists and
other identities. After descending steps to the
Valerie O’Byrne sea front and walking along the promenade,
there was a view of Ricketts Point Marine Wild
On Sunday 27th March we celebrated Valerie’s Life Sanctuary, a protected area. That day a
98th birthday at Morning Tea after church. Valerie pelican was sunning itself on the rocks nearby.
is a very regular attendee at worship on a Sunday
morning and was delighted that she could spend We went back up and crossed Beach Rd to Ebden
the morning with her St Leonard’s family. Avenue to see the exterior of Black Rock House,
after which Black Rock village was named. It
St Leonard’s Church has been an important part was built in 1856 by Charles Ebden, and named
of Valerie’s life since she moved to Melbourne with in honour of his wife’s Irish birthplace. We then
her late husband, Gerry. Her book “The People of St proceeded to Mantecado to finish the walk.
Leonard’s 1891-1991:
A Centenary History of
St Leonard’s Church
Brighton Beach” was
published in 1991 and
records the worship
and activities of the
congregation at the
time of each Minister,
together with important
records from the
church’s archives. St Leonards Walkers’ walk around Black Rock finished with hot
Valerie with Danielle Wood
Valerie’s active drinks at Mantecado coffee shop.
who made the birthday cake.
involvement has
St Leonards Walkers usually meet the first
spanned decades from the 1960’s and 1970’s on
Sunday of each month and our next walks are
the Parish Council, PWMU and Tennis Club to
planned for 3rd April, then 1st May.
more recent times when she convened the Friends
of Outreach and the Walkers group. All are welcome.
Our best wishes Valerie on your birthday. David Greenall
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BAYSIDE RUBBISH COLLECTION CHANGES
Were you one of those General Waste Worries
in 2020 who, during Some people are worried they will have too
lockdowns, made a much general waste for a fortnightly
feature of putting out collection. However, Council audits have shown
their bins? It was like that many of us could reduce the amount we
the one ‘big night are putting into general waste still further. They
out’ for the week, found that up to 60% of what we’re putting in
and people posted general waste actually belongs somewhere
pics and videos of else:
themselves dressing 18% could go in the Recycling Bin,
up in all sorts of 36% is still food waste, and
costumes just for that 10% is soft plastics, which can be recycled
one weekly stroll out via supermarkets, Beaumaris Library or
to the roadside. Council’s offices.
If we can all make changes and reduce what
Well, it doesn’t need to involve funny costumes goes in to our general waste, it helps with both
anymore, but if you live in Bayside, you need to the financial and the environmental costs of our
be aware that our stroll out to the roadside will waste.
be changing, lockdowns or not.
Costs of Waste
From July 2022 Bayside Council is swapping Landfill is expensive. The Victorian
the frequency with which the green and red top Government landfill levy increased by 60% this
bins are collected. The General Waste (Landfill) year and this is passed on to ratepayers. Our
Bin will be collected fortnightly, and the Food city is also running out of landfill sites, and
and Green Waste Bin will be collected weekly. currently the waste from Bayside gets
transported to Melbourne Regional Landfill in
Why is it happening? Ravenhall, west of Melbourne. General waste
Since the Food and Green Waste service has to be collected and transported further
started, Bayside council reports that our general and further away, causing further cost to
waste has dropped to its lowest levels on record. the consumer, and an increase in transport
Previously up to 50% of what was going into the emissions.
general bin was food waste.
Now residents put their food waste in with the In additon, when our waste ends up in landfill it
garden waste, and it is all getting made into means a loss of the resources that were used
compost at a commercial composting facility. in the manufacture of an item. Resources that
This keeps decomposing organic waste out of may have originally have been underground,
landfill, where it gets buried and decomposes or a non-renewable living source, buried in a
anaerobically, causing damaging greenhouse hole, often never to break down. Sometimes
gases to be produced. we produce waste due to over-consumption,
or poor decision
Because there is a reduction in the material in making at the time
our general waste bins, it can be collected less of purchase. So
often, and there is an increase of organics in remember, waste
the Food & Green Waste bin, so it needs to be can be saved if
collected more often; not least of all because of we reduce our
the likelihood of bad smells. It makes sense to purchasing of
swap the frequency of the collections. unneeded items.
St Leonard’s Uniting Church The Message April 2022 6
St Leonards Environmental Planet Ark has a list of special collection
places for ewaste and batteries
Action in Faith https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/
batteries/BaysideVIC
I’m Confused. And if you are confused about how to
dispose of any items, our council website
Can I Recycle...? has a comprehensive A-Z checklist of
where different waste items need to go.
• Disposable plates and cutlery https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/
[General Waste services/waste-and-recycling/z-waste-
• Teabags (often have a plastic lining) and-recycling-directory
[General Waste
• Tetra Paks/UHT Cartons (made of
mixed materials) [General Waste
• Receipts (Thermal Paper [General Remind me, what is
Waste being collected when?
• Take-away coffee cups cannot be
recycled [General Waste
• Things labelled “Biodegradable” are
not recyclable, [General Waste.
• Laminated paper (a laminated
sign or picture becomes a ‘forever’
product which cannot be recycled.
[General Waste
• E-waste and batteries cannot go into
our bins. They need to be taken to
special collection points. Batteries
particularly are a serious risk in
landfill. You should consider using
re-chargeable batteries.
[Collection Points
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On Good Friday, after the 9.30 service, join us Sunday services will continue to be at
with people from the other Brighton Covenant 10.00am, and will be live-streamed on
Churches for the Pilgrim Walk of Witness. our Youtube channel. We look forward to
Details are on page 7. worshipping together, whether face to face, or
virtually. Please make contact with us if you
have any needs that we can help you with.
HOW TO FIND US
ST LEONARD’S UNITING CHURCH
2 Wolseley Grove Brighton Beach 3186
TEL. (03) 9592 9333
EMAIL: contactstleonards@gmail.com
WEBPAGE: www.stleonards.org.au
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9CcPZAoAYjj__VCszEexIg
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/stleonardsuca
FACEBOOK: Members - www.facebook.com/Groups/113607279517/
FACEBOOK: Public page - www.facebook.com/St.LeonardsUCA/
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