By Vicki Fitzgerald
‘Welcome to Nillumbik’, a group of six volunteers, signed a deed with the Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Program (CRISP) to partner with the Federal Government to support a refugee family for 12 months.
To ensure the family we were paired with was supported and able to survive in their brave new move, we had to have ...
By Marina Williams
In five decades of ministry, Rev Colleen Grieve has journeyed from the Atherton Tablelands and Mount Isa to Tasmania’s rugged west coast and northern midlands, guided by a faith grounded in Scripture and shaped through community.
On October 14 last year, former Synod of Tasmania Moderator Colleen celebrated 50 years of ordained ministry with a thanksgiving service ...
What will your role involve?
The Project Lead is a new role and is focussed on supporting Synod and Presbyteries to implement the strategic plan known as Faithful Futures. It will involve collaboration with key people and committees across Victoria and Tasmania to determine how we are going to achieve the five goals contained within Faithful Futures. As part of ...
For more than 120 years, a site in Lindisfarne, Tasmania, has been a place of worship for congregations of the Uniting Church and its predecessor churches.
From around 2000, the Uniting Church congregations in Lindisfarne and Bellerive joined together as the Clarence Uniting Church ‘one congregation meeting in two locations’. Two years ago, the Clarence congregation chose to meet only ...
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By Andrew Humphries
In her role as UCA Redress National Director, Sarah Lim hears first-hand the accounts of people whose lives have been impacted by sexual abuse suffered as a child.
Monday
The week begins with a quick check of email at home before heading into the UCA Tasmanian office in Launceston, then a regular Zoom check-in with colleagues on the Synod’s Senior Leadership Team, followed by a short conversation with Sophie Marcard, Synod Director of Marketing and Communications, about a potential story enquiry by an ABC journalist.
Prayer is not like ascending on a heavenly escalator. We do not move from one great enlightenment moment to another.
Instead, we muddle through, understanding and failing to understand, experiencing consolation and falling into despair, feeling empty, tasting joy, doubting, believing and doubting, over and over again.
This is part of the life of following Jesus. What is curious, is ...
By Marina Williams
A group of boys had spent the afternoon playing basketball.
Within hours, two of the South Sudanese boys, aged 15 and 12, were dead, killed in a violent attack carried out by a group wielding knives and machetes – a tragedy that stunned families across Melton and sent shockwaves through Grace Community Uniting Church.
By Marina Williams
At his Launceston home, Craig Osborne pauses as kookaburras call through the trees.
“There’s four of them hanging around lately,” he says. “It’s pretty cool.”
That same ease shapes how Craig approaches life and faith.
Each Sunday he plays piano at Launceston South Uniting Church, where he has worshipped for more than three decades.
By Andrew Humphries
In one sense, it felt like a homecoming for Rev Prof Kylie Crabbe when she took up the position of Pilgrim Theological College’s Head of College last month.
The appointment feels, she says, like a good fit for where she is in her vocational life.
It’s certainly a good fit for the college, which is getting a ...
By Mark Zirnsak
Uniting Church congregations and members across our Synod continue to provide pastoral and material support to people working on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme. People on the PALM scheme are from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste and work in Australia for up to four years, sending money home to their families and communities. Key ...
From time to time, a familiar concern resurfaces within our life as a Uniting Church, not from outside critics, but from people deeply shaped by this church. It is often spoken with care and concern: Have we become too focused on social justice? Too concerned with inclusivity, diversity, and unity? We need to sharpen our focus on the Gospel.