Encounter God, encounter one another, encounter the tradition.
Welcome to Northcote Uniting Church
Here at Northcote Uniting Church, we are pursuing encounter with God, one another, and the Christian tradition to build life-giving, generously orthodox, Christian spiritual community. The question that motivates our community is: What does it mean to be Jesus’ people in this time and place? We update our resources page from time to time with things that help explain what we are on about.
We are an open and affirming church.
Christmas at Northcote Uniting Church
A Bunch of Carols and a Couple of Readings: our community carols event! Celebrate Christmas Northcote Rise Style.
Christmas isn’t joyful for everyone. For those grieving a loved one, facing illness, carrying loneliness, or simply weary after a hard year, the season can feel heavy. Blue Christmas is a quiet, gentle service of reflection, music, and prayer, a place to bring whatever you’re carrying without having to put on a smile.
Come as you are. Sit quietly and know you’re not alone. All are welcome.
Join us for our short and sweet Christmas morning service! Carols, inspiring message, home in time to get the turkey on.
Regular Spiritual Community
Tuesday Gathering Every Tuesday, we gather at 7-9:15 pm . We talk, we eat and drink, we pray, we study the Bible together. We are affirming, life-transforming, Spiritual community for one another, seeking to be a blessing in and to Northcote, devoted to the question of what the Gospel means in our context. On the third Tuesday we have a shared meal together, followed by communion.
Taizé Prayer: On the first Saturday of the month (except January) we host a Taizé prayer. Singing. Silence. Pizza . And often trombones! Taizé is an ecumenical community in eastern France, where thousands of young people gather every year. It has developed a unique way of worshipping & praying together. You can read more about it here.
The Choir and The Evensong Initiative: Our choir practices every Wednesday during term times at 7:30pm. No experience required, all levels welcome! Four times a year, we will drink deep from the wells of Christian Spirituality with our Evensong service.
Rev. Alister, our minister, has a blog. It will help to explain the sort of place we are.
Stay in the Loop!
We’d love to keep you updated with our various doings! You can sign up for our email list here.
Featured Events
We invite you to join us as, through beautiful music, silence, and hearing the word, we are invited into the presence of God.
A Bunch of Carols and a Couple of Readings: our community carols event! Celebrate Christmas Northcote Rise Style.
Christmas isn’t joyful for everyone. For those grieving a loved one, facing illness, carrying loneliness, or simply weary after a hard year, the season can feel heavy. Blue Christmas is a quiet, gentle service of reflection, music, and prayer, a place to bring whatever you’re carrying without having to put on a smile.
Come as you are. Sit quietly and know you’re not alone. All are welcome.
Join us for our short and sweet Christmas morning service! Carols, inspiring message, home in time to get the turkey on.
Upcoming Regular Events at Northcote Uniting Church
We are coming up to Halloween and All Saints Day. What, if anything, do these festivals have to do with us?
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
No matter if we are full or peace or chaotic, joyous or in despair, God can meet with us.
This is our regular monthly Eucharist (aka Communion or The Lord’s Supper)
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
We invite you to join us as, through beautiful music, silence, and hearing the word, we are invited into the presence of God.
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
A Bunch of Carols and a Couple of Readings: our community carols event! Celebrate Christmas Northcote Rise Style.
Transformative, engaged community every Tuesday. Deconstruct and reconstruct your faith with us!
Christmas isn’t joyful for everyone. For those grieving a loved one, facing illness, carrying loneliness, or simply weary after a hard year, the season can feel heavy. Blue Christmas is a quiet, gentle service of reflection, music, and prayer, a place to bring whatever you’re carrying without having to put on a smile.
Come as you are. Sit quietly and know you’re not alone. All are welcome.
Join us for our short and sweet Christmas morning service! Carols, inspiring message, home in time to get the turkey on.
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Northcote Uniting Church acknowledges the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our community meets and worships