Sacrededge will return to the coastal town of Queenscliff for a weekend of music, stories and reflection.
Now in its third year, the festival takes place from Friday 29 April to Sunday 1 May. It will feature more than 20 artists and performers including: Indigenous singer Frank Yamma, Kurdish refugee Reza Yarahmadi, theologian and LGBTI ...
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of local churches, schools and businesses, UnitingCare’s Pancake Day is on track to raise more money this year than ever before.
Locals cooked up delicious pancakes to raise money for Victorian and Tasmanian UnitingCare agencies.
The annual UnitingCare event, now in its 14th year, is traditionally held on Shrove Tuesday and ...
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.
In 2016 there are many who believe the sharing of placements must be considered as an alternative to expecting one person to master everything.
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.
Spending time with Khadija Gbla is an uplifting experience – she is as passionate and as vocal one-on-one as she is speaking to a gathering of 1,000 people. Khadija has ...
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.
The appeal runs in the lead up to Christmas, inviting schools, businesses and community groups to collect food and household essentials for distribution through Wesley’s outreach centres.
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).
Sessions have already been held at Hoppers Crossing, Longford, Tasmania, Noble Park, Benalla and Traralgon.
This month meetings are planned for Heathmont, Wycheproof, Ararat and 130 Little Collins ...
If you’ve been lucky enough to meet members of the Keilor East-Airport West Uniting Church, you will know that most of them are unstoppable. Last year, a number of members attended the Mission Shaped Ministry course, completed through the Uniting Church’s Port Phillip West Presbytery. It inspired the church to look for inspirational ways to make ...
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate all things to do with love. And as the saying goes, you are never too old for love.
Wartime sweethearts Norwood Thomas and Joyce Morris recently reunited after 71 years apart.
Norwood is a 93-year-old former paratrooper from America while 88-year-old Joyce hailed from the UK. The couple met by the Thames ...
UCA President Stuart McMillan has issued a Pastoral Statement on the legal ramifications of congregations providing sanctuary for the refugees at the centre of the Let Them Stay campaign.
From the statement –
We have been calling for the closure of the detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru for many years. The centres are breeding grounds for abuse ...
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The #Letthemstay campaign has dominated headlines and opinion pieces for the past fortnight.
Are the public protests backing the Turnbull government into a corner? Would more be achieved by working quietly behind the scenes?
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Rev David Thompson, administration minister for the Uniting Church’s Presbytery of Western Victoria has written to Sussan Ley, Minister for Health and Fiona Nash, Minister for Rural Health to protest the June 2016 funding cessation of the Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia (HCRRA) organisation.
Operating since 1996, HCRRA works to improve health outcomes for people in ...
More Uniting Churches in Victoria have declared that they will offer sanctuary to asylum seekers facing deportation to Nauru.
St John’s Uniting Church in Essendon was the first church in Victoria to publicly state its intention to invoke the ancient Christian tradition. This was followed by Manningham Uniting Church, Wesley Uniting Church (Melbourne), St Andrew’s Uniting Church (Chelsea), Habitat Uniting ...
