Love Is Indispensable
And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Uniting Agewell raises money for Nepal
(From left to right) Sunny Nepal and Bikran Adhikari; Lauren Curnow, from Australia Red Cross; Rev John Clarke, director of mission, UA; Sita Gyawali, personal care worker UA Manor Lakes.
Poem – WALKING THE LABYRINTH WITH THE WHOLE CREATION
By Rev John Cranmer Here is a walking the Dunkeld Labyrinth with the whole Creation context by mountain sun sky trees a white-blueness — a multi-variant-greenness a red-tinged-brownness mirrored-together in gently
Poem – A SILENCE BEYOND THOUGHT
By Rev John Cranmer come find those silences between the words that minds speak to themselves as they tread sharp-edges of aloneness here release the mind from its frenetic-yabberings screamed-out in the darkness of it
Sharing the burden this winter
By Nigel Tapp Harrison UnitingCare faces the very real prospect of walking away from offering an emergency relief support service in Knox in the wake of a Federal Government grant funding cut which amounts to about $100
Putting the ‘G’ into OMG
By Dan Wootton The other morning as I headed down the hill in the dark, I felt something silently whiz past my face. I walked on, and as the dim light marginally improved, it happened again.
Senator Christine Milne moves on
By Nigel Tapp Six years as a boarder at St Mary’s College in Hobart taught Christine Milne of the need for people with skills to give back to their community.
Images of hope
This month, John Vander Reest will celebrate 50 years since his ordination as a minister in the church.
Building Harmony through cricket and song
By Larry Marshall Uniting Through Faiths (a Commission for Mission project) organised the second annual Sri Lankan Harmony Day on 28 March at Wesley College in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
Essie Tremewen: the heart and soul of The Grove
21/10/1920 – 5/5/2015 Obituary by David Lord Essie Tremewen was the matriarch of The Grove Uniting Church – that is not in doubt.
School’s service at Aitken College
Aitken College families and friends recently gathered for their monthly Sunday worship at school. The service included a pet blessing service and was followed by a picnic lunch.
70 years of ordination
Family and friends joined the congregation at Glen Waverley Uniting Church on 26 April to recognise and celebrate 70 years (to the day) of ordination to the ministry in the Presbyterian and Uniting Church for Rev Bill M