JULIE PERRIN
The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a much-loved community event with many attendees returning year after year to enjoy a range of music, comedy, spoken word, workshops and craft stalls.
This year the Port Fairy Uniting Church offered a special Sunday worship during the March weekend with local singers and musicians performing Sacred Tapestry – ...
A homeless woman
The money I gave to her
Made her smile today
Buying lunch in the centre of Melbourne with just $5 to spend might seem to be merely an exercise in thrift and ingenuity. But a Kingswood College student added another dimension by giving change she had left over to ...
At just 22, Able Seaman Robert Filmer spent his time diving into murky waters in search of bombs placed under ships by enemy forces. Robert had the immense responsibility of dismantling those bombs between 1965 and 1966 during the Vietnam War.
Originally a butcher from Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Robert followed his cousin’s footsteps and joined the ...
Synod’s new governance committees have set themselves a mission to provide the support and advice that will allow the church to take a positive approach and “journey into new frontiers”.
The newly formed Mission and Ministry Committee and the Property and Operations Committee have already met twice this year, plus there has been an orientation session ...
TIM LAM
As Manningham Uniting Church marked the closure of one of its church sites, the congregation is already planning ahead for the next part of their ‘grand adventure’.
In mid-March, congregation members from all four Manningham UC sites gathered together for the final service at the Anderson Creek Road church in Doncaster East.
DAVID SOUTHWELL
For moderator Sharon Hollis the dedication of the Airport West Uniting Church was something of a homecoming.
Ms Hollis grew up attending the church that was previously on the site but it’s unlikely she ever entered that building in such an emphatic fashion as she did the new one.
Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why on Sunday morning you might find Tallangatta Uniting Church members looking for gifts in an op shop rather than seated in pews for a traditional worship service.
Tallangatta member Carmyl Winkler said that when the small congregation in north east Victoria suddenly found itself without a minister ...
All synod staff will be required to complete safe church training over a five-week period ending in April.
Safe church educator Josh Tuhipa-Turner said the training is only a part of what the church is doing to make sure children are welcomed and protected in all its environments and activities.
As Australia commemorates National Close the Gap Day, an Aboriginal advisor at Uniting VicTas believes Australia still has a long way to go to achieve health equality for First Peoples.
Ron Briggs works at one of Uniting’s Alcohol and Other Drug services.
“The reality is, we’re still 10 years behind,” he said.
A university offers a haven of safety and security for young students in the Holy Land, a Uniting Church congregation in North Melbourne heard last month.
Bethlehem University is the only Catholic University in the West Bank where Palestinians of all faiths or none can study.
In late February the university’s Vice-Chancellor Brother Peter Bray shared the institution’s ...
Uniting Vic.Tas CEO Paul Linossier said community-housing residents should not be stereotyped as violent and anti-social people following a much-publicised attack on Melbourne radio host Kate Langbroek.
Last Friday, Ms Langbroek was allegedly injured by a man who tried to break into her home and forcibly enter her babysitter’s car. A 38-year-old St Kilda man was later charged ...
Armadale Uniting Church member Karel Reus has prepared a series of weekly reflective poems and questions for the season of Lent. Click here to read all of the reflections.
Mark 8:31-34
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, ...
