Services

8:00 am Informal Conversation Worship
9:30 am Multilingual Service (English, Korean and Chinese)             
11am Korean Language Group

Our mission is to witness to the gospel and spread the good news of Jesus in word and action.
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Our vision is to engage and connect with our diverse community through active discipleship.

ZOOM TO WORSHIP

Inclusive Public Worship

Worship Services are open to the public.

​​Visitors are always welcome.

We are made up of the colourful diversity of God's creativity!

We include people of different languages and heritages, people who identify as LGBTIQ+ and people from diverse political and theological understandings. 

We ask attendees to offer RESPECT to one another.

Accessible In-Community Worship

As an Inclusive community, we worship in an accessible venue, have a hearing loop, a range of seating options and welcome people to Worship in Zoom and Hybrid modes.

​Please contact the office if you have special needs
or if would like to join online and we will send you links.

Sunday Worship Services
Uniting across a range of styles and languages. You are welcome to join any of our weekly services.
All our worship services will include Christian practices of sharing in Prayer and Bible reading.

Value	8.00am (weekly)	9.30am (weekly) Multilingual
Duration	60 minutes	65-70 minutes
Style	Conversation style intimate gathering (approx 12-25) seated in-the-round, often lay-led ​progressive and inclusive	Family Service liturgy ​with All-age and inclusive community emphasis (approx 45-80 people) (crèche available) Sunday School
Language	English mainly lay-led with an emphasis on mutual learning and encouragement	Multilingual In English, Korean and Chinese  on our projection screens and in the printed Order of Service.
Sacraments	Communion ​[Last Sunday of the month]	Communion ​[2nd Sunday of the month]
Music	usually shared from recordings  mixed styles ​includes secular songs with spiritual themes	a mix of contemporary Christian songs and traditional hymns.

​We also have Occasional Services
and Combined Services

take place at different times and for different reasons!

• Christmas Carols
• 'Blue' Christmas
• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day
• Ash Wednesday
• World Day of Prayer
• Palm Sunday
• Maundy Thursday
• Good Friday
• Easter Sunday
• ANZAC Day
• Pentecost Sunday
• Sorry Day / Covenanting Sunday / NAIDOC Week
• Creation Festival
• Refugee Sunday
• All Saints' Day

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Special Services for Sacred times in our Life Journeys

• Baptism
  
• Re-affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation)
  
• Thanksgiving and Blessing (people or relationships)
• Engagement
• Weddings
• Re-affirmation of Marriage
• Healing and Wholeness
• ​Celebration of Life
• Funeral
• Memorial
• House Blessing
  
• Scattering of Ashes / Interment of Remains
• Dedication (objects)

​Please contact the Ministry Team if you would like to discuss any of these or other pastoral services.

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COVID Safety

worship services continue to be in hybrid form, both onsite and on ZOOM.

Please note:
While we want to welcome you with open arms,
we are mindful of the number of 'high risk' people who are in our community.
We want to be a place where the safety of the most vulnerable is a priority.

Onsite measures:

• we have MERV 17 Air con filtration
• we have 3 large room air purifiers and 3 smaller office air purifiers
• masks and hand sanitizer are available 

​COVID and Isolation Support:
Eastwood Uniting Church aims to be a supportive family for you when you need us most.
If you test positive for COVID or need to isolate at home due to illness or quarantine, please let us know so we can help. Services include: shopping for staples and supplies, picking up from pharmacy or dropping in Rapid Antigen Test kits (RATs).

Jesus said,
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
Matthew 22:37