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ON PENTECOST Sunday, 12 June, Coorparoo Uniting Church celebrated 125 years of serving the community.
Coincidentally when the former Methodist Church was opened on 13 June 1886, it was also Pentecost Sunday.
The timing of the congregation’s birthday celebrations could not have been more perfect.
To mark the anniversary, Coorparoo Uniting Church hosted a special combined service on Sunday 12 June with members from Coorparoo’s cluster partners in the South East Uniting Community (Morningside and Eastside) also attending.
Queensland Synod Moderator, Rev Bruce Johnson, and General Secretary, Dr Shirley Coulson, together with State Government Minister for Education, Cameron Dick, and local Councillor, Ian McKenzie, were also on hand to share in the celebrations.
Coorparoo Minister, Rev Yvonne McRostie said the day was a very special one and not just because it was the church’s birthday.
“For Christians, Pentecost Sunday is a day to celebrate hope,” she said.
“Pentecost is widely regarded as the birthday of the Christian church as it commemorates the day when Christ’s disciples, filled with the Holy Spirit, first began to take his teachings to the world,” she said.
The celebration was shared with many group from the congregation participating including music from the youth choir and the children enjoying the Pentecost theme.
Coorparoo Uniting Church is by far the oldest church in the inner Brisbane suburb.
It was opened some 27 years before the Roman Catholic Church and 36 years before the Anglican Church.
The Church as it stands today was completed and opened in 1959.
Photo : Children enjoy the Coorparoo Uniting Church 125th birthday celebrations. Photo courtesy of Des Hall
