The Saltbush Gathering will be a time of Christian community with worship, hospitality, a meal together, conversation and challenge as part of exploring life and faith together.
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Saltbush – Uniting the Scattered Community, seeks to encourage and connect Uniting Christian communities, irrespective of size or location and work at all the layers of our church to shape communities for the present future.
Saltbush seeks to enable us as a broad church to embrace the reality of being Christian community in the 21st. century and to affirm diverse ways for people across the land to belong; both to gather and be in mission together. Saltbush seeks to work with individuals, lay leaders and Christian communities who are willing to confront traditions and habits of the past to shape new intentional gatherings for the present future!
Our team is made up of Ministers and Deacons, some of who work in specific regions and others who work both online and on the ground across the land. Saltbush is not just a website nor a resource, but real people in relationship with those seeking to explore faith and life together.
What's new with Saltbush Community?
A time for Lay Leaders in any role from anywhere who seek a time of renewal, community and the opportunity to explore life and faith together.
The Saltbush Gathering will be a time of Christian community with worship, hospitality, a meal together, conversation and challenge as part of exploring life and faith together.
Our Spring-Summer of Ruminations with the theme of “Expectations” has just been published. It is available in post and online!
We host regular online and in person events...
The Saltbush Gathering will be a time of Christian community with worship, hospitality, a meal together, conversation and challenge as part of exploring life and faith together.
A time for Lay Leaders in any role from anywhere who seek a time of renewal, community and the opportunity to explore life and faith together.
We would love to welcome you at our next event.
No Word Around the Bush for January BUT we invite you to explore the Season of Epiphany Word Around the Bush will have a break in January BUT we invite you to explore what the epiphany of Christ means to you.
The Christmas story (without the sentimentality) speaks into our human condition. Our frustrations, fear, joy and anxieties. Sadly it also speaks into the remorseless violence that we have witnessed over thousands of years and continues today. Into our human frailty God breaks-in, as God is being God, the One who brings love, peace, joy and hope in the form of a baby.
John’s questioning whether Jesus is the one or should he wait for another, reflects the raw honesty of the Gospels. It allows us the freedom to question, explore and discover who this Jesus is in our own lives and the life of the Christian community. As Jesus answers John, he also answers us, ‘see and hear for yourselves’.
We continue in Advent as we begin to hear the voice crying out in the wilderness - John the Baptist. In our Word Around the Bush we think about our expectations and hopes alongside times of uncertainty and searching. In our liturgy for this week, we also use John's cry as our cry in prayer for others and the world.
Welcome to a journey with Jacob! This is an uncomfortable set of conversations. Like salt in a wound, they sting and irritate before they can soothe and heal. We hope you will sit with them – on your own or, preferably, with a small group of people with whom you are willing to explore your life and faith.
This is our publication available for any congregation or group who are willing to have some discussion around who you are, how you gather and how you live out your faith.
We delve into the Gospels, think about our own stories, talk together in small and large groups and challenge ourselves to take seriously the urging for the church in the 21st Century to be way more intentional about its life.
Six conversations as part of the book: Joining God in the Great Unravelling by Alan J. Roxburgh. These conversations are not a study guide, but an invitation to open ourselves to deeply consider who and how we, the church, our christian communities, are participating in the ways of God beyond ourselves.
People from across the state and beyond for worship as Christian community. This is not streamed, one way or impersonal, but continues to build upon our belief in the missional relationship. Saltbush @ Worship takes place on different days/nights and is open to all.
In regular series of three or four nights the Saltbush team hold online cafés centred around diverse themes or readings. Saltbush cafés are easy to attend, relaxed and an encouraging way to meet others and explore life and faith together.
Three to four times a year in different rural or coastal locations the Saltbush team hold Scattered Community Gatherings. You can attend these online from wherever you are to wherever we are. These gatherings are centred around worship, encouragement, education and the practice of discipleship.