Feb 28
Local activist Clare Fountain has again organised the annual Clean Up Australia Day at Long Gully Reserve. This is the area behind the BP service station in Long Gully.
This is a great opportunity to meet people and make Long Gully a cleaner and more beautiful place.
Date: Sunday, March 6th 2011
Time: 10-12pm
For more information, go to this website.
Come along and have fun cooking and eating fresh produce straight from the garden!
Local foodie Kylie Martens will be running kitchen garden sessions with produce fresh from the Hope…It Grows! Community Garden.
There is no experience necessary and it’s free!
Dates: Every Tuesday in March
Time: 4-6pm
Place: Hope…It Grows! – Cnr Creeth St & Eaglehawk Rd, Long Gully
Just turn up or contact Kylie for more detail on 5443 9128; kyliemartens@optusnet.com.au
We will be having a working bee for the ‘Hope…It Grows’ community garden at St Matthew’s church.
Our next working bee is on Saturday April 2, 10-3pm
We will be doing some gardening, arty stuff and there will be a free lunch.
Hope to see you there.
Where: ‘Hope…It Grows’ community garden, St Matthew’s Church 153 Eaglehawk Rd
When: Saturday 5th March 10am- 2pm
Contact: Susie Scott 0458 756 682
Whether you attend church regularly, or only on special occasions, we would love to see you on Christmas Eve.
We will sing carols, hear the story of Christmas & celebrate together.
Time: 7.30 – 8.30pm
Place: St Matthew’s Church, Corner of Creeth St & Eaglehawk Rd, Long Gully
The chooks have arrived at the garden! And they lay…
On Saturday a bunch of people put together a chook house, as well as a hothouse and cooked up a storm with mince plus beetroot, carrot and onion from the garden.
On the 18th of December we will be having a working bee for the ‘Hope…It Grows’ community garden at St Matthew’s church.
We will be clearing some of the fire hazards and there will be a free lunch and workshop. The workshop will be taken by Beck Lowe on backyard chickens and will start at 11am.
Hope to see you there.
Where: ‘Hope…It Grows’ community garden, St Matthew’s Church 153 Eaglehawk Rd
When: Saturday 18th December 10am- 2pm
Contact: Susie Scott 0458 756 682
Nov 14
If you are walking past St Matthew’s, pick a strawberry – they are delicious and the bugs are getting them!
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) are running a forum in Bendigo for Christians to meet and question some of the candidates from the Bendigo East electorate for the upcoming Victorian state election. This event is on:
The ACL have a reputation for a narrow range of issues they will name as “Christian”, but I have seen a broadening of its agenda in the last few years – a great thing.
I encourage you to come along, and email rob.ward@acl.org.au to give suggestions for hard questions to be asked at this forum.
We all work. But have we connected what our work is, with our faith? And in what sense has God has called us to our work? Gordon Preece will address these questions.
Date: Monday 8th November
Time: 7.30pm
Place: St Matthew’s, 153 Eaglehawk Rd, Bendigo
Bike Butcher has received some funding from the Department of Planning & Community Development. This money is to conduct a feasibility study into Bike Butcher being set up as a social enterprise.
Kinda sounds boring…In reality, whoever did this job would be recycling bikes with young adults one day a week, and doing the legwork for the feasibility study – stuff like interviewing bike retailers, finding out whether anyone wants to buy the bike etc.
If you think you would be good for this job, or you know someone, contact Ali Turnbull on (03) 5410 0663 or email ride@bikebutcher.org.
St Matthew's Church 