The synod’s NextGen reflected on the importance of remembering history as they shared their experiences from their recent contextual learning trip to South Korea with Uniting Church congregations.
A group of young people from the synod last month spent 10 days in Korea to learn about the legacy of Australian missionaries and meet leaders from the Presbyterian Church of ...
Rev Sharon Hollis has stepped into the role of UCA president-elect, with a passionate plea for the church community to be the conduit of God’s grace, as it has been for her in the darkest times of her life.
Ms Hollis, the moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, was announced as the president-elect ...
Moderator Sharon Hollis joined UCA chaplains and representatives from a broad range of faith traditions to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Monash University Religious Centre last week.
The Centre, a heritage-listed circular building on Monash’s Clayton campus, is the first such dedicated religious facility on an Australian university.
Monash Uniting Church minister Rev Ray McCluskey is a chaplain based at ...
While a certain reality TV cooking show named its winner on Tuesday night, the innovative training of master chefs in Uniting AgeWell kitchens was recognised in Melbourne last month.
Uniting AgeWell received an ACSA Victoria Aged Care Award for Innovation in Service or Design for the Masterclass 2017, which saw chefs from across the agency’s residential communities ...
Uniting Church in Australia immediate past President Stuart McMillan will begin a new role with the National Assembly as Assembly Consultant Covenanting on 1 September 2018.
Mr McMillan will provide advice, support and leadership about honouring the Church’s Covenant with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) to the Assembly and across the councils of the Uniting ...
A new set of resources is available to encourage conversations to help the Uniting Church community discern their part in God’s mission.
The resources can be used by gathered communities as well as synod-based ministries and staff.
The resource website describes a mission conversation as “a focused and facilitated conversation about what a community of ...
BARRY GITTINS
“What is truth?” was the question asked by Pontius Pilate of Jesus and it is a question that a visiting eminent theologian from the US will be addressing later this month in a public Northey Lecture at the Centre for Theology and Ministry.
Dr Christine Helmer will be speaking on “Truth and Reality: An Ecclesiology of Resistance”, ...
UCA Funds Management has been certified with a global accreditation recognising its commitment to sustainable and ethical practices.
B Corporations are businesses and organisations certified by the non-profit B Lab as meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.
UCA Funds Management will join more than 2500 B Corp companies worldwide who are using the ...
Keith Fagg OAM
The enduring love story and dedicated Christian service of Bert and Ruth Fagg has inspired a vibrant new artwork adorning Wesley Church in Geelong.
Commissioned by the Fagg family, the work is part of a bequest from Bert Fagg, who died in 2015, in memory of his beloved wife of 70 years, Ruth who passed away ...
NIGEL TAPP
Last week, the Devonport Uniting Church congregation farewelled the Steele Street church site that has hosted worship since 1889.
More than 250 congregants from the across the North-West region of Tasmania, previous ministers as well as past and present church members gathered for the moving service of closure.
ALEX SANGSTER
‘Most of the refugees I spoke to on Manus had been drained of hope. They have a heaviness of spirit about them. Their struggle is existential: they are told that Australian public opinion is against them, detained, ignored, sent the message that they are somehow outside the scope of ordinary human kindness’ Tim Costello
Dear friends,
Please find attached a pastoral letter from the President of the Uniting Church Dr Deidre Palmer concerning the decision about marriage and same-gender marriage made at the Assembly meeting that concluded on Saturday.
I encourage you to read the letter and to share it with your congregation, faith community or organisation.
