Category Archives: parish events

Our 1st Conversation at The Clare

The Church of All Nations has launched a cultural program it calls Australia Dreaming. Its first offering is a series of ‘conversations’ with notable public figures exploring “What I believe and why.” They happen one evening a month at the Clare Castle Hotel on the corner of Palmerston and Rathdowne Streets, where some very good [...]

Join us at Easter & on 11 April

Church of All Nations’ anniversary dinner on Saturday night was a splendid occasion, its centrepiece being the book launch, by former minister John Rickard, of our ‘collective memoir’, The Need is the Call: 150 years of service in Carlton.  Contact the church for your own copy of the book for $20 (add $5 for postage). [...]

Our 150th anniversary

The Church of All Nations will celebrate this great landmark with exhibitions, tours, a new book, a dinner, a church service and more.  Please join us at any or all of these events where we look back at the vibrant history of the church’s presence in a changing context and we look forward in faith [...]

Celebrate Christmas at the Church of All Nations

You are very warmly invited to join us for one or more of these our special events this Christmas: Monday 21 December 11:15am – CAN Centre service in the church 12 noon – Christmas community lunch, including distribution of toys by Carlton police Wednesday 23 December 7:45am – service of Holy Communion in the Fullerton [...]

A CAN breakfast

Early on Saturday morning, 17 October 2009, a group of CAN members was joined by several adult literacy teachers in the Ruth Sugden Tower room, first for a delicious breakfast and then to listen to Snoeks Desmond from Durban, South Africa. Snoeks is an early childhood development and family literacy expert who spoke about her [...]

CAN celebrates Christmas

You are warmly invited to join the Church of All Nations in a number of special events over the coming days.  Please check the Bulletin or call 9347 7077 for more details: Wed 17 Dec — Toy distribution Fri 19 Dec — Indigenous Hospitality House invites you to their BBQ (6pm) and worship (7pm) Sun [...]

Advent Reflections 2008

When has God seemed most real to you? How have you experienced moments of transcendence? Where do you see God revealed? These are some of the questions members of our congregation have pondered in the months leading up to Advent.  Their reflections in prose, verse and image have been collected in a diverse and intimate [...]

Avril’s ordination this Sunday

Yarra Yarra Presbytery will this Sunday ordain our ‘inspiring‘ Dr Avril Hannah-Jones. Avril was a long-time student of Melbourne University with a law degree and doctorate in Uniting Church history. She was a member at Church of All Nations when she began training for ordained ministry. She recently spent 5 months studying ecumenical spirituality with [...]

Gospel concert cancelled

Regrettably, the Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir concert planned for 29 August has been cancelled. This popular choir rehearses weekly at the Church of All Nations. Keep an eye on the MMGC website for future concert dates.

In-house film night: 16 August

‘Seven Days’ (Zambia)