ACCESS ministries recently announced the resignation of CEO Rev Canon Dr Evonne Paddison, who headed up the organisation for more than eight years.
Dawn Penney, who has filled a number of roles with the interdenominational supported organisation for more than seven years, has been appointed acting CEO.
The next moderator of the Vic/Tas synod will be decided at the Synod meeting in September. Members will discern between three nominees – Rev Ian Brown, Rev Dr Sunny Chen and Rev Sharon Hollis. Convenor of the nominating committee Rev Alistair Macrae said all three would bring to the role unique qualities and strengths.
For most Australians, tales of war and armed conflict are usually just images on a TV screen or newspaper. This image of a beautiful field of sunflowers in Ukraine contrasts, not only with the armed men on the horizon, but the reality of the horror that lies beneath the beauty. A horror that was brought home to Australians with ...
Twenty-two years is a long time to remain in the one job, and no doubt many of us would welcome a slap up farewell party as we prepared to leave. But not Pauline Gibbs, the retiring Operations Manager of UCA Funds Management, who enjoyed an intimate luncheon farewell as she departed 130 Little Collins Street last month.
Who is involved in the review?
The MSR team is predominantly comprised of skilled members of the Uniting Church with various gifts and graces representing diverse aspects of the Church; including active congregation members, ordained ministers, a former-presbytery chairperson, an agency CEO and experts in strategy and governance. They are supported by a small paid staff ...
A NEW grants program designed to enrich the lives of older Australians has been launched by the Commission for Mission.
Uniting Journeys is offering up to $10,000 toward responsible travel opportunities for (but not exclusive to) people 55 years and older.
Project support worker Jim Wakelam said the program also aimed to encourage intergenerational, ...
IN JUNE the congregation of Lilydale Uniting Church handed over the keys of the Lilydale Church property to the CEO of Melba Support Services.
The church and Melba had been involved in discussions for some months when the Lilydale property was earmarked for sale by the Uniting our future program at the end of 2013.
A troupe of Taiwanese Bunun singers will perform traditional songs in concerts throughout Victoria this September.
The Bunun tribe are mountain people from southern Taiwan and are one of 14 Indigenous tribes of the region.
Uniting Church minister Rev Arthur Poole has been involved with the Bunun community for more than 25 years. ...
In late May at least 15 local Islamic militants attacked a group of Catholics praying at a home in Ngaglik, Sleman in Indonesia.
The attackers claimed to be loyal to Jafar Umar Thalib, the former commander of the Islamic extremist group Laskar Jihad.
The Catholics were attacked with stones, batons, iron bars and flower ...
Uniting Church members have engaged in a number of letter-writing campaigns organised by the Commission for Mission urging the Federal Government to take concrete action to prevent FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) and provide support to children impacted by the disorder.
“FASD describes a range of cognitive, learning, behavioural and development abnormalities caused to unborn children ...
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has announced that the Catholic Archdiocese’s Melbourne Response will be the subject of the first public hearing in Melbourne commencing on Monday 18 August 2014.
The Commission has announced that the hearing will look at the principles, practices and procedures of the Melbourne Response. The spotlight ...
The Uniting Church Assembly has recently changed section 5.2 of the Regulations (Pastoral Care of Members) in an effort to curb unwelcome behaviour.
Among the changes is a new section about elders and church councillor behaviour. Behaviour that is deemed inappropriate can now be referred to the presbytery pastoral relations committee who can determine whether the ...
