Sharing the load
NIGEL TAPP It is often said two heads are better than one but in ministry it is more common to see one person filing a position rather than two sharing the role.
Uplifted in faith and hope
BINDY TAYLOR recently spoke with Khadija Gbla, executive director of No FGM Australia. Khadija will be the keynote speaker at the UnitingWomen conference held in Adelaide this April.
Creating Jesus
Book | Made on earth. How gospel writers created the Christ | Dr Lorraine Parkinson.
Residents race in the name of cancer research
Tasmania’s unpredictable weather did not keep Uniting AgeWell’s Lillian Martin residents from donning their sneakers and participating in their Relay For Life marathon on Monday.
Effective visiting
I have a booklet that was published by the Joint Board of Christian Education way back in 1986. It was part of a Uniting Church Elder Series and the subject matter was ‘Effective Visiting’.
Almost 50 tonnes of food for families
Wesley Mission Victoria’s annual Food for Families appeal has collected an unprecedented 49 tonnes of food for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Singing from the same hymn book
People with a shared love of music gathered together on Valentine’s Day last month for the Rutherglen Big Sing. MC for the day was Zelma Eltringham, one of 60 people who met in the Uniting Church in Rutherglen.
Subversive Tradition
Behind the formal declaration of International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975 there is a longer tradition.
Fifty years of Nits
Back in the 1960s, St John’s Presbyterian (now Uniting) Church in Essendon was awash with teenagers, many of whom were active in what was then the PFA (Presbyterian Fellowship of Australia).
MSR information sessions underway
By NIGEL TAPP All church members have been invited to a series of synod-wide information sessions to inform and provide feedback on the vision and plans of the Major Strategic Review (MSR).
Letters to the editor – March
Giving up prejudice Lent is said to be a time of self-imposed abstinence. This Lent maybe it’s time we go a little further and try to give up more than chocolates.