Most of our readers will pick up Crosslight the day after the federal election. A large number of Uniting Church halls across the Victorian and Tasmanian synod transform into polling booths on Saturday 2 July. We asked Janice Laverty, who co-ordinates hall bookings at the Nhill Uniting Church in the Wimmera district of Western Victoria (as well ...
The Chinese Church has undergone dramatic change in the past few decades. Two men with considerable knowledge of the church in China are Rev Dr Ji Zhang and Rev Zhu Enshou. They will be bringing their stories and experience to regional Victoria when they speak at a conference at Hamilton Uniting Church on the weekend of 12-14 August.
For the past eight years, Joan Waters has thought, read, wept and prayed about dementia.
The insidious disease has taken hostage of her husband of 65 years, Reynolds, a retired Uniting Church minister.
Ms Waters has watched as her vibrant, caring and loving partner slowly lost his memory, his understanding and his reasoning. In their place are ...
A guest at the refugee picnic took a final look at the Castlemaine botanical gardens in their autumn splendour and said to one of the organisers: “This is the best day I’ve had since arriving in Australia”.
The comment was music to the ears of the team of people from Rural Australians for Refugees and churches and ...
Thelma Wall was volunteering at the Sycamore Tree Coffee Shop when she saw a “young fellow” enter the adjoining Heidelberg-East Ivanhoe Uniting Church, which in those days had a front section open as a chapel.
Ms Wall decided to follow the teenager in and approach him.
“People enter a church for a reason,” she said.
As the cold weather sets in and signals the end of an unusually warm autumn, thoughts of many turn to human hibernation. Along with a warm fireplace, a well-worn couch and maybe your favourite blanket, winter is the perfect time to indulge in ‘comfort’ food.
Faith leaders in the Victorian community have issued a statement calling for an end to homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. The statement was in response to a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which claimed the lives of 49 people.
Signatories include VicTas moderator Rev Sharon Hollis and representatives from the Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh ...
The Australian government’s refugee policies will be a much-discussed topic in the lead-up to the federal election. A recent survey conducted by Youth Action revealed that Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum was the number one election issue for young people aged 17-25.
In preparation for National Refugee Week on 19-26 June, UnitingJustice has launched its resource
The Uniting Church in Australia expresses its deep sorrow at the deaths of 49 people in a despicable act of violence at a gay nightclub in the city of Orlando in the US state of Florida over the weekend.
No words of comfort we say are enough to console the families and loved ones, or to heal the damage done ...
Many Uniting Church members are involved in volunteer and philanthropic programs that enrich their local community. They dedicate countless hours living out the biblical call to serve the most vulnerable and marginalised members of society.
Their hard work and generosity have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Kenneth Harrison, congregation member at Mark the Evangelist Uniting ...
Regular visitors to the Melbourne CBD would have noticed that the homelessness protest at City Square has ended.
A compliance order issued by the City of Melbourne earlier this week asked the protestors to collect their belongings and move away from the square. The council has also installed plants at ...
The Presbytery of Tasmania has donated $20,000 to launch a Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Share Tasmania Flood Crisis Appeal.
The floods have been declared a national disaster with one life lost and two people still missing.
Rural communities have been particularly affected and stock losses are expected to run into the thousands.
