Once a month, the Hobart North congregation makes its weekly Sunday service more inclusive for hearing impaired members by offering sign language interpretation.
Generally it is a communion service on the fourth Sunday. The initiative began when the former New Town Road (and later the New Town-Moonah) congregation offered signing support to members in the 1990s.
Forty students from Uniting Church schools – Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS), Aitken College, Billanook College and Cornish College – visited the Melbourne Synod office for an Interschool Social Justice Day in May.
The Justice and International Mission (JIM) and Culture and Context units hosted the event in the synod chapel. Activities included a ‘Where’s Wally’s tax haven?’ game ...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Uniting Aged Care Board, bringing together most Uniting Church aged care services in Victoria. Tasmanian services were brought under the responsibility of the Board in 2005.
To mark the 10-year anniversary, a series of morning teas have been held at Uniting AgeWell facilities throughout the two states. Director of ...
With encouragement from the Commission for Mission (CFM), Coles, Simplot and Nestle sent representatives to a meeting organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in May.
The Bangkok meeting addressed forced labour and human trafficking in the Thai seafood industry. The meeting was attended by representatives of other companies around the world that source from Thailand, as well asThai companies, ...
Approximately 400 people will gather at La Trobe University in September for Synod 2014.
Among the major issues on the agenda will be a report from Uniting our future and a discussion regarding directions for the Major Strategic Review. The Christian Religious Education Task Group will report their findings to the Synod and a moderator-elect will be chosen.
George Town Uniting Church stalwart Beryl Osborne (pictured) believes volunteers are the lifeblood of small communities such as hers in Northern Tasmania.
“George Town would not survive without volunteers but, unfortunately, people are very busy and it is not easy to get members these days,” Mrs Osborne said.
Last month she was one of nine Uniting Church Vic/Tas people ...
Faith and community leaders in Bendigo stepped up last month to show their support for their Muslim neighbours.
In a move organised by the Uniting Church’s Commission for Mission (CFM), hundreds of colourful balloons filled the streets bearing tags that read ‘Racism has no place in Bendigo’.
The action was in response to the anti-Islamic black balloons which were tied ...
“How do you see God at work in the world?” This is the question Alister Pate, pastor of Caféchurch, hopes to answer with a photography exhibition to be held as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in September.
The collaboration between the Church of All Nations in Carlton and Caféchurch Melbourne aims to encourage people to think about how they ...
UnitingCare Prahran Mission was recently welcomed into the fold of the Cheltenham-Mentone Uniting Church community at a service marking the agency’s move to the church’s Charman Road property.
UnitingCare Prahran Mission’s Moorabbin office was sold under the Uniting our future program and has now relocated to the church’s refurbished tennis pavilion in Cheltenham.
A support program aimed at assisting patients with a mental illness at Tasmania’s North-West Regional Hospital has been recognised with a national best of care award by Spiritual Care Australia (SCA). The ‘Soul Food’ program operates on a weekly basis. It is run by Mid North-West Uniting Church member Irene Hardy and her fellow chaplain Jan Gray as well as ...
At the time of writing, confusion surrounds the fate of a woman sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy in Sudan.
Twenty-seven-year-old wife and mother Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to death by Judge Abbas al Khalifa of the Public Order Court in El Haj Yousif, Khartoum on 15 May. The death sentence is for apostasy under Article ...
By Penny Mulvey
Justice Peter McClellan AM, Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, provided significant insights into the progress of the hearings when he addressed a men’s health symposium in Brisbane last month.
He told the symposium one of the questions considered by the Royal Commission is: Why does a person become an abuser?
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