Whitehorse Churches Care |
Whitehorse Cluster (UCA) |
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We are a member church of this ecumenical organisation.
This organisation developed during 2019 with the initial goal of providing winter shelter for the homeless, based upon the well known and successful 'Stable One' concept in neighbouring municipalities. With most of the churches across the City of Whitehorse enthusiastically joining, planning was fully underway to begin this new mission for the winter of 2020. Unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in deferral of this new mission. Focus then shifted to what was possible to help the needy and to uplift our community during the pandemic... |
After a period of more than a year of meetings and processes, our UCA Presbytery of Yarra Yarra formally recognised the churches of Blackburn North/Nunawading, Forest Hill, and Mountview as the Whitehorse Cluster in December 2020.
At last the three congregations, via a combined JNC and a new regional council, may progress the calling of a shared ministry team, and to resume the stalled process of shared worships and bringing the three congregations closer in relationships - towards becoming a single entity in future. Although the pandemic continues to hamper our efforts, we maintain our strong hopes that the outcomes will be worth it and to the glory of God. |
The following highlights are in order of 'most recent' at the top...
For Christmas 2020, the 'City of Whitehorse' partnered with the churches across Whitehorse to share a blessing and uplifting video to convey Christmas messages; plus they authorised approved carol busking at local shopping precincts.
Public on-demand access to the full 35 minute special was only licenced until the end of 2020. Members can request private access to view the video in 2021 by emailing a request to our webmaster. Nearly all of the individual music-videos included in the special remain publicly available and via our Christmas Playlist:
Mountview Advent / Christmas Hymns Playlist
Public on-demand access to the full 35 minute special was only licenced until the end of 2020. Members can request private access to view the video in 2021 by emailing a request to our webmaster. Nearly all of the individual music-videos included in the special remain publicly available and via our Christmas Playlist:
Mountview Advent / Christmas Hymns Playlist
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In conjunction with local members of the Victoria Police, Care Packages (Food Hampers) are prepared then distributed (safely by the Police) to the most needy in our communities in time for Christmas 2020. Our Centre 81 helped collect donated goods and to create these care packages.
Here's the video of distribution day: >>> |
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Using virtual technologies, the churches contributed to creating a Blessing video for all church members and for the entire community across the city.
The initial 'Whitehorse Blessing' video, made during the peak of the pandemic and Stage 4 Lockdown, is here. <<< |