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Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
At Open Icon Baptist Church, we value great preaching — preaching that engages deeply, humbly and honestly with Jesus, the Bible, and the pain and joy of living in the real world. And since going permanently online, we have been able to welcome great preachers from all over the world without having to wait for them to visit our shores. Click here to meet the inspirational preachers depicted in the gallery above, none of whom have preached for us!
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Garry Worete Deverell
The Revd Dr Garry Worete Deverell is a Trawloolway man from north-eastern Tasmania. He served as an associate pastor in our church from 2002 – 2007 while completing his doctoral studies through the University of Divinity, Melbourne. Garry has since worked within Uniting Church and Anglican congregations, and has worked in hospitals and theological colleges, all in Victoria and Tasmania. He served as Academic Dean, Lecturer, and Research Fellow in the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Divinity, which he helped to found. He and his wife Lil have two adult daughters, and are now living back on Garry's ancestral country in north-eastern Lutruwita/Tasmania. Garry is the author of:
- The Bonds of Freedom: vows, sacraments, and the formation of the Christian Self, Wipf and Stock (2008).
- Gondwana Theology: a trawloolway man reflects on Christian faith, Morning Star Press (2018).
- Contemplating Country: More Gondwana Theology, Wipf and Stock (2023).
Sermons by Garry Worete Deverell
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15 July, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Abuse, Grace, Mission, Prayer, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
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10 June, 2001
Preacher: Garry Worete Deverell
Topic: Communion, Identity, Relationships, Trinity
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.