Glenbrook Uniting Church

07/09/2026

The Season of Creation - week 2
Poem: "Invitation" by Mary Oliver
Bible Reading: Matthew 10:29-31
Sermon: ‘Look to the air’ by Rev. Leigh Gardiner

06/09/2026

Thank you darling Leigh for the gift of your tears, words and hands 🙏🏾♥️🦉

03/09/2026

This Sunday, in our second week of the Season of Creation,
we look to the air with Rev. Leigh Gardiner

03/09/2026

Blessing of the Animals - 13 September 9:30am.

02/09/2026

Want a simple yet important climate action you can do this Season of Creation?
Then you might like to join me in signing this petition which calls on the City of Blue Mountains Council to pass a Polluters Pays motion to support a Climate Compensation Fund - which would help protect local services, strengthen and repair infrastructure, fund disaster response and preparedness and ensuring our community can stay safe and thrive in the face of climate disasters. The intention is for councils nation-wide to encourage the Federal Government to establish a climate compensation fund derived from a levy on the of coal, gas and oil exporters. 10 other councils have passed this motion already.
Rev. Ellie

The “Polluter Pays” principle is simple – if you make a mess, you should clean it up.  Communities like ours are already paying the price of climate change through higher insurance premiums and increasing disaster recovery bills. Meanwhile, big coal, oil and gas corporations are making bi...

01/09/2026

Rest now in the peace of wild things Wendell Berry.
You have been a blessing to this world.

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

30/08/2026

Our Season of Creation started today.
Bible Reading Ezekiel 47:9-12
Sermon: Wade in the Water

29/08/2026

Passing on this sad news. Joan was a member of St Andrews for many years before moving to the Illawarra. See funeral details below.

29/08/2026

Our Season of Creation starts tomorrow. Come and wade in the living water.
Thank you to those who helped create such a beautiful sacred space.

28/08/2026

With sadness, we share the news that Joan Peard has died.

Joan died peacefully on Tuesday evening. She was a much loved member of our St Andrews Glenbrook family, and her own family were among the founding members of this congregation — a legacy woven deep into who we are as a community.

Her funeral will be held at St Andrews Uniting Church, Glenbrook, on Monday 28 September at 11am.

We hold Joan's family in our prayers at this time, and give thanks for a life so richly connected to this place.