Don Dowling's Blog

Don's Blog

Hi all. A happy new year to you all.

This is my first Blog for 2010 so I hope as you receive it you are well and like me wondering what the New Year will bring.

I must admit to feeling a tad tired after Christmas but also feeling quite elated. Our displays and events outside the church went extremely well. We were ‘packed to the gunnels’ for our Christmas Eve service, mainly with young people who didn’t want to leave. I have now made a mental note for next year that we will need to have some Christmas pudding to share with them…… and then there was Christmas Day, again with a wonderful crowd of families, a great service with excellent music from the Choir.

On my return I have hardly had time to think, with the visit of Sister Mary Jo Meadow, (see Whats on at Wesley www.perthunitingchurch.com.au/viewStory/Future+Events+at+Wesley and preparations well underway for the Stations of the Cross it all promises to be a good year.

Aaah but this is life, full of energy and excitement. I don’t think I want it any other way.

Stations of the Cross Art Exhibition.

As I know this will be upon me before I can blink an eye, can I invite those who may be interested to be volunteers during this time to let me know? There are generally two types of volunteers for this event.

Firstly, those who can just be there to keep a watchful eye on the artwork and the people who will wander through it. They will open and close the building and generally keep a count on how many people come through the doors.

Secondly, those who would like to be tour guides, that is those who are willing to take people around the exhibition and be involved in conversations that arise from that experience.

As before we will be open from 9am till 5pm from Saturday 27th March through to Monday 5th April. Please let me know via admin@ucic.org.au if you would like to be involved and in which capacity.

And now for something completely different!!!

Last week a small group of people from the Tongan community, mainly young people from the Beth Shalom church (a Uniting Church Tongan Congregation) played brass and drum instruments outside the Uniting Church Centre in Edwards street. As I understand it one of them came from Tonga to visit family and then assisted the church in starting up a brass band. They had only been playing for 5 weeks but they were pretty good. So I invited them to play outside Wesley on Friday 15th January . They were great.

Thanks for reading.

Don