Sandy Brodine
Younger Generations Education and Strategy Coordinator
What has been your journey with, and connection to, the Uniting Church?
I have been a member of the Uniting Church since I was 14. I switched across because I saw that the Uniting Church had women ministers, and that excited me, even though I’d never met one. I also liked the ...
Alison Overeem
Statewide Manager, Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress Leprena Tasmania
Thursday
On site at our Leprena office in Glenorchy. It’s a full and focused day with the deadly team of myself and sisters Ayla and Grace Williams immersed in our annual strategy meeting. We are planning, reflecting and challenging ourselves and building as a team, and it’s ...
Rev Will Pickett
Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (Victoria) and Weeroona Uniting Church minister
Easter stands at the centre of Christian theology and remains foundational to my faith and vocation.
I have been a Christian since 1990, following a significant family loss that led me to reassess my life in light of the gospel.
By Mark Zirnsak
Forced labour, and more broadly modern slavery, remains a significant global problem in the production of some of the goods that are imported into Australia. Goods produced with forced labour gain a competitive price advantage over those produced where workers earn decent wages and have decent working conditions.
This Easter, many of us come carrying more than we expected.
Summer fires have left a deep impact across Victorian rural communities, and the recovery will take time. Our public life has been strained: immigration protests, hate speech and language that turns people into categories rather than neighbours.
Some of us are grieving. Some are worn out. Some are quietly ...
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 ...