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SCOTS CHURCH
  • About
    • About Us
    • History
      • History
      • How we celebrated our 150th Anniversary
    • Sundays
      • Traditional Service
      • ScotsCity
      • International Christian Church (ICC)
      • St. Stephens’ Flemington
    • LunchBreak Thursday
    • Staff
      • Ministry Team
      • Administration Team
    • Flemington Mission
  • Church Life
    • Membership Course
    • Youth
    • Young Adults
    • Kidschurch
    • Small Groups
    • Hope Explored
    • Scots’ Church Safe Church Policy Guidelines (2025)
    • Give
  • Media
    • Livestream
    • Upcoming Service Details
    • Sermons Archive
      • Traditional (11am) service
      • ScotsCity
    • Order of Service
    • Resources
      • Scots’ Weekly
      • The Leaflet
      • ScotsCast
  • Venue Hire
    • Venue Hire
    • Weddings
  • Music
    • Music Events
    • Music Team
    • The Rieger Organ
  • Contact

Sermons

  • Embracing the Promise of Compassion

    May 18, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Embracing the Promise of Compassion

    Speaker: Rev Justin Ang

    Topic: Prophets and Promises

    As we come to Jonah 4, a surprise ending awaits. Nineveh repents, God relents but Jonah rages. This final chapter offers a reflection on God’s radical compassion and challenges us to consider how we respond when grace is extended to others.

  • Embracing the Promise of Repentance

    May 11, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Embracing the Promise of Repentance

    Speaker: Rev Justin Ang

    Topic: Prophets and Promises

    After Jonah is thrown onto dry land by the big fish, the LORD commands him to cry out against the city of Nineveh. How will the people respond? And how will God? The third chapter of Jonah gives us a striking picture of true human repentance and God’s surprising mercy.

  • Embracing the Promise of Hope

    May 4, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Embracing the Promise of Hope

    Speaker: Rev Justin Ang

    Topic: Prophets and Promises

    As we continue our Prophets and Promises series, we encounter Jonah in the belly of the big fish. Jonah’s prayer is a challenge to us all as it reminds us of the promise of hope.

  • Runaway Prophet

    April 27, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Runaway Prophet

    Speaker: Rev Phil Campbell

    Topic: Prophets and Promises

    Jonah the runaway prophet isn’t keen to take the message of God’s providence to a faraway nation of Israel’s enemies. But God, as always, has the upper hand. As the story unfolds into a full scale marine disaster, we catch a glimpse of a future messenger of good news for all the nations – and you’re included!

  • Your Kingdom Come

    April 20, 2025

    Series: Traditional Service

    Your Kingdom Come

    Speaker: Rev Dr Arthur Keefer

    Topic: Easter

    How would you tell the story of your life, and how would it include Jesus? The story of the Bible is that God enters into the story of humanity in the person of Jesus Christ. His resurrection appearance is the climax of his coronation as King, and invites us to make him the centre of our lives and our stories.

  • Your Will Be Done

    April 18, 2025

    Series: Traditional Service

    Your Will Be Done

    Speaker: Rev Phil Campbell

    Topic: Easter

    What does Jesus mean when he prays “Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven?” Is it a call to political power? To domination? To rule the world with the iron fist of Christendom? When you follow the story through to the first Good Friday, you’ll find a surprising sting in the tail – because Jesus, as he goes to the Cross is the prime example of God’s will unfolding here on planet earth.

  • Great Expectations

    April 13, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Great Expectations

    Speaker: Rev Justin Ang

    As we celebrate Palm Sunday, we remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. But as Jesus enters the city, what kind of king are we expecting?

  • Cross-Shaped Work

    April 6, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Cross-Shaped Work

    Speaker: Rev Phil Campbell

    Topic: Cross-Shaped Life in Self-Centered World

    If you seek meaning in your career, what’s left if there’s an economic downturn… or when you retire? Or, in the end, when you die? In the universal quest for meaning and purpose, what work is really worth doing? That’s the question Paul addresses as he brings his letter to Corinth to a close, and describes some very practical ways we can join in doing ‘the work of the Lord.’

  • Cross-Shaped Resurrection

    March 30, 2025

    Series: ScotsCity, Traditional Service

    Cross-Shaped Resurrection

    Speaker: Rev Phil Campbell

    Topic: Cross-Shaped Life in Self-Centered World

    Some think science will be the key to living forever, and others claim that faith can make you well. But Paul says, there’s only one way forward… and that’s to die, and then be raised, like Jesus. The painful cross-shaped consequence is that there’s no free-ticket to avoid suffering.

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Leonie Tonkin

Leonie joined the Scots’ Church Choir in May 2003 while studying Reformation history and writing her honours thesis on the hymns of Martin Luther. She an accomplished recorder player and has sung with the Choir of Ormond College, the Australian Chamber Choir, the Melbourne Octet and Ensemble Gombert.

Leonie works for the public service in a policy role, and spends her limited spare time baking, running and helping her daughters with piano practice.

Vaughan McAlley

Vaughan joined the Scots’ Church Choir as a 17-year-old music student in 1988. After becoming Principal Tenor in 2001, he sang the part of the Evangelist in the Scots’ Choir’s first performance of JS Bach’s St John Passion in 2003, and was renowned for his enraged performance of Thou shalt break them from Handel’s Messiah. As a composer, he has written a number of pieces for the choir, including anthems for his wedding with Leonie Tonkin, and for the baptisms of their daughters Eleanor and Genevieve. He has also arranged hymns for choir with brass, timpani and organ. He is a long-time member of the chamber choir Ensemble Gombert, and enjoys working on the perfect espresso.

Jennifer Chou

Jennifer Chou began her role as the Associate Organist at Scots Church in 2023, after having been the Director of Music at Toorak Uniting Church for 11 years.  She had taught the organ for the Australian Catholic University, since 2015 she teaches the organ for Melbourne High School.

As a recitalist, Jennifer has given organ concerts in major Australian town halls and Cathedrals. Overseas, she has appeared as soloist in places including the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Westminster Abbey in London, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, and many more.

After having obtained a Master of Music degree in organ performance and church music at Northwestern University USA where her teacher was Wolfgang Rübsam, Jennifer studied in Paris and Toulouse for 5 more years with world sought after teachers including Susan Landale, Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen. She concluded her studies in the Cycle de Perfectionnement with Premier Prix d’Orgue à l’unanimité in Toulouse.

Douglas Lawrence

Douglas Lawrence AM has been Director of Music at Scots’ Church since 1984. He teaches organ at the University of Melbourne and was Master of the Chapel Music at Ormond College from 1982 to 2006. He has been awarded an AM for services to music.

Douglas plays the organ most weeks for the Sunday 11am worship service, as well as training and conducting the choir.

Throughout the year Douglas is responsible for producing, directing and conducting many concerts and performances with the choir and with various instrumental ensembles, both in Scots’ Church and beyond.

The Rieger Organ that was installed in 1999 was built to Douglas’ specification and it has proven to be a wonderful continuation of the musical tradition and standard that has been the hallmark of Scots’ Church since its foundation.