Ramblings for Keep in Touch, Kirwan Uniting Church's pew sheet 28 July 2019.
Rev Michelle Cullen is much more organised than I am. For example, she has sent me the names and contact details of all of the folk who will look after the services at Mossman and Port Douglas in a couple of weeks’ time, so that I can let them know what are my scripture readings and theme. (Because, if you didn’t know, Michelle and I are swapping pulpits for that Sunday, 11 August, each of us having been on Retreat at Cardwell in the week leading up to it,, she south to KUC, me north to her preaching-hang-outs). Normally, as our musos will tell you with accompanying eye-rolls, I don’t even know what I’m preaching on the following Sunday, leave alone in two weeks, but I thought that I’d better not let the Mossman/Port Douglas side down, and I discovered that Hebrews 11 is the set epistle, you know, “ … by faith so-and-so did such-and-such … “ (Come on, look it up ). Now it happens that a tad over eleven years ago, I became a citizen of this absolutely gorgeous country of Australia