Category Archives: parish events

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 Chapel (inside the church)
Thursday 24 [...]

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 work [...]

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 21 Dec [...]

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 volume for devotional [...]

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 the [...]

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)

Vale Arthur Hill

With deep sadness we received the news this week of the death of a valued member of our community and faithful friend to all. Arthur Hill was a member here at the Church of all Nations (Carlton Mission) for most of his life.
Arthur grew up in Carlton during the Depression years of late [...]

Public Theology and the Local Congregation

You are invited to an afternoon with Dr Nico Koopman, Chair of the Global Network for Public Theology.
Dr Koopman is a Fellow of Stellenbosch University, South Africa and its Centre for Public Theology. He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Centre of Theological Inquiry in the US. He was involved in the apartheid struggle [...]

Doug memories

Invariably at a funeral, one learns something new about the person honoured. Everyone has a different perspective, a different experience of them. Doug’s family is collecting stories and memories of him. If you have a memory of Doug you’d like to share, please go to the Contact page of this website to send [...]