Uniting Church rites for same-gender marriage are being prepared for use from 29 September after the 15th Assembly decided to hold two equal but distinct statements of belief on marriage.
At the Assembly meeting in Melbourne last month, members resolved to allow UCA ministers the freedom to conduct or to refuse to conduct same-sex marriages.
When it comes to restoring, selling and giving away bikes, Peter Daly means business.
Mr Daly runs the ‘Recycle Bicycle’ program at St Stephen’s Uniting Church in Wodonga, which sells or gives away approximately 100 restored bikes a year.
The Recycle Bicycle shop maintains a stock of 40 to 50 bikes that range in ...
Uniting Church member Cath James believes marking life’s transitions for children and young people can be a vital part of keeping them involved in faith communities.
“Rituals help us mark a time and enter into something that is often too big for us to comprehend in that moment,” Cath said.
Ahead of Homelessness Week, which runs from 6 to 12 August, we talked to Mee Sook Kim from Lilydale Uniting Church. Mee Sook volunteers with ecumenical homeless shelter program Stable One.
Q: How does Stable One work?
Over the coldest 13 weeks of winter, seven churches in the Lilydale area take turns once a week to ...
BARRY GITTINS
Hannah* was a young girl in year six who needed encouragement. Every week of the school year she met for an hour with a Kids Hope Australia mentor, Sandra Savory from Crossroads Uniting Church.
Sandra listened, advised, and helped Hannah prepare for life at high school.
The 15th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia has agreed to hold two equal and distinct views on marriage to honour the diversity of Christian belief among its members.
Meeting for the first time since last year’s change to Australian marriage laws, members of the Church’s national decision-making body, the Assembly, resolved to allow its ministers the ...
Rev Sharon Hollis was announced as the Uniting Church in Australia President-elect at the 15th Assembly on Thursday morning.
Ms Hollis, who is Moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, will be the third woman to be National Assembly President and first who has been ordained.
“I am humbled and I am grateful,” Rev. Hollis said after ...
A group of Uniting Church members and theological students recently had the opportunity to experience the rigours and rewards of monastic life as part of a pilot program being run by Pilgrim Theological College and the Banyule Network of churches in Melbourne’s north-east.
The Banyule Network is home to a ‘learning hub’ where students study ...
The Channel Uniting Church Rwandan Coffee Club has a special reason to enjoy a brew on Sunday 8 July.
The church community will celebrate 120 years of continuous worship in the Woodbridge Uniting Church building, located in the town of Woodbridge 38 kilometres south of Hobart.
“All are welcome to share in this celebration, especially those ...
JOHN CONNAN
All organisations go through periods of doubts and recently the 52-year-old Mission Liaison Group (MLG) wondered just what God was saying.
Uniting Church Adult Fellowship (UCAF) groups have always been strong supporters of MLG but UCAF membership has been ageing and fund-raising has declined. Old age, illness and death have taken their toll on ...
Appropriately enough, the Church of Latter Geeks looks set to go virtual.
The annual costume character service has already gone ecumenical with Williamtown’s Holy Trinity Anglican Church hosting a Cyberman (from Dr Who), Star Wars droids, a Quidditch team’s worth of Harry Potter characters and even a Stepford Wife last Sunday afternoon.
A delegation of NextGen youth from the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania have visited the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea as the peninsula commemorates the 68th anniversary of the Korean War.
On 25 June 1950, the North Korean army entered into South Korean territory, marking the start of the world’s longest ongoing conflict.
