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What Our Churches Are Doing

As we approach Advent, you may be interested to see what our local churches are doing for Christmas. At the end of this page is a list of church services and events, together with a map of where to find the various churches.

VCC Newsletters

We are affliated with the Victorian Council of Churches, who have a website with lots of news. Recent items include:

• VCC July 2021 Newsletter
• VCC May 2021 Newsletter
• VCC February 2021 Newsletter
• VCC November/December 2020 Newsletter
• VCC September 2020 Newsletter
• VCC August 2020 Newsletter

Important Volunteer Initiative

My name is Sophie and I am a medical student at Monash University. I’m reaching out on behalf of a student-led volunteer initiative, Conversation In Isolation. We are a group of university students who are hoping to use our time during this state-wide lockdown to support those in our community who are at risk of loneliness through regular telephone calls. This will all be free-of-charge. Read more here.

Important Announcement for All Churches

Red Cross is receiving funding from the Australian Government for the next six months to deliver emergency relief and casework support. These funds are for people on temporary visas who have no way to support themselves and who have urgent needs. This includes food, medicine and crisis accommodation costs.

They have not yet received these funds but hope to increase their existing Emergency Relief and Safety Net program in the coming weeks.

You may be eligible for Red Cross Safety Net support if you:

• are in Australia on a temporary visa
• are in urgent financial hardship
• cannot access Centrelink, Medicare or similar services
• have no income, savings or other financial support (including from family overseas).

How to apply
The Red Cross will advise when they have the funds and arrangements in place.

In the meantime, you can email call 1800 733 276 during business hours

if you need help with emergency payments, food deliveries, crisis accommodation costs or other support.

More information can be found at

• help for migrants
• help for students
• help on renting

What Our Churches Are Doing

Christmas Service Times

In conjunction with the Mount Waverley Interchurch Council, we are building a list of services times for Advent 2021. If your church is not listed here, please contact John Hurst

Click here for the list sorted by name or sorted by date and time. For a map of where the churches are located, please see the map of church locations.

This timetable is DRAFT only, based upon last year's times. Churches that have yet to confirm their service times are shown in green italic.

Note also that churches' regular worship times are shown on a separate page at the Regular Service Times at Waverley Churches page.

To locate churches within the Waverley/Monash area, here is a map:

Prayer Calendar

The Glen Waverley and District Interchurch Council's suggested prayer calendar is now available. All churches are encouraged to use this calendar in their weekly cycle of prayers.

Headspace Monash

A long-awaited headspace facility to support young people to access mental health support in Monash opened in October 2020. Read more in this media release

Extreme Hardship Support Program

The Extreme Hardship Support Program can provide financial assistance, information and referrals to people living in Victoria who are experiencing significant hardship as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and who are unable to access other forms of Victorian Government and Commonwealth Government income support. The program may support temporary and provisional visa holders and undocumented migrants with little or no income, savings or community support.

Now that the program is established, we seek your help to promote it, particularly to people seeking asylum, temporary migrant workers, and the services and communities that support them.

Information to be aware of for community members in need of assistance

Red Cross, Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Department of Health and Human Services have implemented the Extreme Hardship Support Program to provide emergency financial assistance to people who are unable to access income support.

To be eligible for this program a person must:

• live in Victoria, and
• be unable to access Commonwealth income support (such as JobKeeper or JobSeeker) or the Victorian International Student Emergency Relief Fund, and
• have zero or very limited income, savings or community support
• be a temporary or provisional visa holder, or an undocumented migrant.

• Applicants will need their passport and bank statements showing transactions for the last three months.
• The website has information in simplified Chinese, Farsi, Malay, Nepalese, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese
• To assist you in promoting this program, further information is at the Red Cross website and in the flyer and FAQ attached.

FAQs and a fact sheet for community organizations are attached and also available on the DHHS coronavirus website.

This emergency financial assistance complements other Victorian Government hardship supports available to all people living in Victoria, including the $1500 worker support payment, the $300 test isolation payment, the and the rent relief grant.

Community organizations interested in joining a network of community implementation partners can contact the Brotherhood of St Laurence on (03) 9422 5650 or by email at mct.reception@bsl.org.au . The Brotherhood of St Laurence is also available to assist you in promoting this program by participating at network meetings to speak about the program.

Please contact your Adviser if you have any further questions.

Paloma Mochales
A/Team Leader, Agency Performance and System Support
Hume Moreland Area, North Division
Department of Health and Human Services

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m. 0417 792 127
e. Paloma.Mochales@dhhs.vic.gov.au

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