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Join us for Christmas at Holy Cross!

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Hackett’s 60th Birthday Party – Saturday 28 October, 3-8pm

We are honoured to be holding Hackett’s 60th Birthday Party on the church grounds, co-hosted with the Hackett Community Association and our friends from St Margaret’s Uniting Church. It’s going to be an amazing community occasion, and everyone is welcome!

Featuring FREE kids entertainment (bouncy castle, face painting, Funky Fairy), a wide range of food trucks, and live performances including:

  • 3.00pm: student bands from Dickson College
  • 4.00pm: CAKE CUTTING AND “HAPPY BIRTHDAY HACKETT”
  • 4.15pm: Good Faith Choir – gospel / world music
  • 4.30pm: Folk Dance Canberra
  • 4.40pm: local piano students including rising star JJ Neeman
  • 5.15pm: Broad Spectrum – folk / rock / blues
  • 6.15pm: a breezy summer set from a Mystery Local Celebrity
  • 7.00pm: Chris Van Der Wielen Trio – classic hits from 1963 to 2013

Plus classical music by members of the ACT Youth Orchestra and local performers

Also featuring the HACKETT SQUARES community art show – enter your 30cm square artwork and win a cash prize! Entries close Wednesday 26 October.

Easter Services

We would love to see you this Easter!

Our services are:
April 2, Palm Sunday
9am with a procession of Palm Crosses
April 6, Maundy Thursday
7.30pm: Last Supper with communion and foot-washing
April 7, Good Friday
9am: Ecumenical Service with St Margaret’s Uniting Church
2pm: Meditation at the Cross
April 8, Easter Saturday
7pm: Easter Vigil
April 9, Easter Sunday
9am: Family Eucharist

Please join us and bring your family and friends!

Welcome to Lent!

On Tuesday 21 February, join the Holy Cross church family for our famous all-age Pancake Party! Sign up online at www.holycrosshackett.org.au/pancakes (to help us with numbers) .. or just turn up on the day.

  • 5.30pm: a short all-age time of prayer and praise (for those who wish)
  • 6.00pm: pancakes, fun and games
  • $5 adults, free for kids – pay online, or cash / card on the door.

On Wednesday 22 February, come along to a special meditative time of prayer, and receive the traditional sign of ash on your forehead as a symbol of your desire to make a good Lent.

  • 10am: Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes
  • 6pm: Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes

And from Monday 27 February, please do join one of our many Lent Study Groups for a six week Missional Spirituality course (click here to buy a copy of our Lent book). Take some time out of your busy week for prayerful reflection, to make some great new friends, and learn more about how we can join in with what God is doing in the world around us. Sign up online at www.holycrosshackett.org.au/lent

  • Monday night: Hackett home group
  • Tuesday night: Ainslie home group
  • Wednesday night: online group
  • Thursday 10.30am: onsite at Holy Cross Hackett

Welcome to Christmas at Holy Cross!

Our fabulous programme of Christmas events is out now – featuring:

  • Saturday 26 November, 2.30pm: Choir Concert – “Songs of Heaven & Earth”
  • Sunday 27 November, 9.30am: Advent Sunday Eucharist, joint with St Margaret’s Uniting Church
  • Sunday 27 November, 7pm: Darkness Into Light
  • Sunday 4 December, 5pm: Family Christmas Time Out
  • Friday 9 – Monday 12 December: North Canberra Nativity Festival (also on Facebook)

And much much more! Check out the posters below for more information.

Spring BBQ and party!

It’s a season of longer days, warmer weather, and … pumpkins?! Once more our families and friends are gathering for a spring barbecue and firepit, party games and a touch of spooky fun. Kids’ costumes are encouraged!

Join us from 4.30-7.30pm.

All are welcome!

Community, food, fun and fabulous wares at our Holy Cross fete!

Join us one and all for a fabulous day at Holy Cross Hackett on Sat 19 Nov. Our fete is back for another year, with new games, activities and stalls, and all the wonderful things you have come to enjoy from Holy Cross. Join us from 11-3.30pm for food, activities, fine wares, Christmas goods, and our famous Holy Cross book stall. Join us on the day or reach out to us at events@holycrosshackett.org.au for more details.

Democracy and Jazz for Sustaining Our Future

We are excited to welcome Tim Hollo for an evening of jazz and participatory democracy to address the crises of our world.

Tim’s new book will help us start a conversation about how to bring a new world into being.

7-9pm Saturday 24 September

This event is part of the Sustaining Our Future Festival

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Sustaining Our Future Festival

Our North Canberra Sustainability Festival is back 24-25 Sept, bigger than ever.

Saturday will see a popup market, workshops, kids’ activities, a fabulous session on ethical fashion, followed by an evening of Living Democracy and live jazz with community leader Tim Hollo. On Sunday, we celebrate Creation with our joint Holy Cross and St Margaret’s Creation Sunday worship.

Saturday Program

11am-4pm Pop-up Market

  • Conservation, sustainable living and community stalls, kids’ craft, sustainable food and drink, ethical coffee and fair trade goods.

11.30am-1.30pm e-bike rides!

Mini workshops:

  • 11.30am Labyrinth spirituality
  • 12pm Mosaic making
  • 12.30pm Roving Regenerators composting workshop
  • 12.30pm Mosaics in Christian history (presented by Dr Monica Short)
  • 2pm Labyrinth spirituality

12-4pm Ethical fashion repair cafe and slow fashion op-shop: register here

  • 12-4pm Textile repair cafe (drop in)
  • 12-4pm Slow fashion op-shop

4-5pm Sustainable Fashion Q&A: register here

7-9 pm Living Democracy in practice, and live jazz with Tim Hollo: register here

Sunday 25 September 9.30am: Creation Sunday worship

Christmas image with PNG Bird of Paradise on bauble

Christmas in July is back

Join Holy Cross, the Good Faith Choir and the PNG Perovata Singers of Canberra in celebrating Christmas in July and the Coming of the Light, from 5.15pm 1st July.

5.15pm Firepit, kids’ games and marshmallows

6pm Carols for Winter Christmas and the Coming of the Light

7pm Christmas Feast with traditional foods from Australia, PNG and around the world

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