Synod Snaps – October 2016
Families worker Corinna Fong (fourth from left) was commissioned as a Lay Preacher at Surrey Hills Uniting Church.
Commitment to service
The synod recently farewelled legal counsel Peter Shepherd following 17 years of dedicated service.
Reasonable to believe
Review by David Southwell BOOK | BEYOND BELIEF | HUGH MACKAY Beyond Belief is both a survey of contemporary Australian approaches to spirituality and a polemic tract outlining the author’s view of how God, Jesus and the
Take your best shot to fight slavery
You can perfect your table tennis backhand topspin drive any time of the day or night during the annual Ping-Pong-A-Thon being held this month at the High Street Road Uniting Church in Mt Waverley to combat human traffic
Always ‘doing something’
Deaconess Rae Quick 19 August 1922 – 16 July 2016 Rae Quick and her younger brother Ian grew up in Gippsland and were part of the church communities in the towns where their parents Jack and Dorothy ran small busin
Join the conversation about sovereignty and treaty
In 2015, the 14th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia agreed to support Constitutional Recognition as “… a step towards and not a blockage to the larger issues of sovereignty and treaty”.
Uniting together
NIGEL TAPP A new single board will assume governance responsibility for 22 Uniting Church community service agencies from Monday 3 October. The emerging organisation will be known as ‘Uniting’.
Practising the Art of Story
It is not obvious at first glance that Fiona Bottcher began her working life as an engineer, but words such as ‘build’ and ‘structure’ pop up in her description of what was enjoyable about the Art of Story course she com
Leadership for the modern Korea woman
Silvia Yang can’t escape the feeling that God has had a hand in her new role as CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) relationship officer for the Uniting Church.
Animals in our lives and in our hearts
By Rev Barbara Allen Spirituality and Creation Project Worker As we approach World Animal Day (Feast of St Francis, 4 October) it is timely to take stock and consider our animal brethren.
Writing a brighter future
Keiah knows firsthand the importance of education. An Aboriginal woman of the Yorta Yorta nation, she provides literacy support to inmates at Langi Kal Kal prison, 140 kilometres west of Melbourne.