​1000 Paper Cranes for Peace: Easter Arts Festival 2023 Installation

1000 Paper Cranes have been hung in the church foyer.
They are available to be viewed during office hours (Tuesday - Friday 9:30am-1:00pm).
Different community groups constructed the cranes over a 4 month period and then the cranes were hung by a small group of volunteers over four weeks.

The inspiration for the cranes came from the story of Sadako Sasaki who was two years old when the Hiroshima nuclear bomb was dropped. Later, as she was suffering from leukaemia, she began making 1000 paper cranes. At twelve years old she died having completed 644 cranes. Her class mates formed a Paper Crane Club to continue what she had begun. On May 5, 1958, almost 3 years after Sadako had died, enough money was collected to build a monument in her honor. It is now known as the Children's Peace Monument, and is located in the center of Hiroshima Peace Park, close to the spot where the atomic bomb was dropped. Children from all over the world still send folded paper cranes to be placed beneath Sadako’s statue. In so doing, they make the same wish which is engraved on the base of the statue:
"This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world".



April 2021

• 'Ragman' and Luke's stories of Hope dramatically told by Philip Liebelt (see it on YouTube here)
• Songs of Praise festival service on Sunday 11th April 2021  (see it on YouTube here)

Easter Arts and Craft Exhibition April 2019:

A most successful exhibition held over the 3 days of the Easter weekend.  Paintings (mixed media, oils, acrylic, pastels, lino .prints), quilts, china painting, woodwork, floral art, hardanger embroidery, tapestries, ceramic sculptures, liturgical stoles and banners, poetry and handmade musical instruments were displayed.  Slideshows of the Oberammergau Passion Play and Churches of Europe were played to a background of hymn music and UC organist Merle Wines gave a pipe organ recital each afternoon.
Donations from the 270 viewers raised $665 for the Warrnambool Special Development School.

Details of the exhibition are here.