All of us at St Michael’s Uniting Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, AU, have almost only one thing on our minds (in addition to all the !”$%^%$£” happening to our planet and in our colleague nations). We’ve been worshipping in the Church Hall for almost a year as we’ve been waiting the completion of our Revitalising Project.
The whole point of the building developments has been to give the highest level accessibility possible for St Michael’s to engage with our neighbours in Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD). The vision and work has much reminded me of The Church at Carrs Lane in Birmingham UK. I was commissioned a while ago to create an artwork which celebrated both the joining of two congregations and the accessibility of the building to make the kind of connections which St Michael’s is committed to reviving. Below is one section of the whole artwork called Tabernacle. This shows the shadow of the old building, glowing with history and life, now being an integral part of the gathering of people. The link goes to a page which tells you all about how this was made by using the communion table top from one congregation and photos from the other congregation. The energy of that creative union spreads all over this newer image of that union and work. We at St Michael’s anticipate a similar kind of energy to flow from the work which is now nearing completion.
