This year’s Queenscliff-Point Lonsdale Uniting Church’s tea cosy exhibition made even more of a splash than normal.
Visitors to the exhibition, located on the coastal tourist resort destination of the Bellarine Peninsula, were greeted by the sight of a suspended two-metre papier-mache whale presiding over a school of clown-fish tea cosies.
Uniting Church minister and South Sudanese refugee Rev Paul Dau says some of the recent media coverage and high-level political commentary on African youth crime comes is hugely disappointing.
The newly ordained Springvale Uniting Church minister endorsed comments from UCA President Stuart McMillan who yesterday said the spread of fear and negativity about South Sudanese and other African communities is a ...
By trying something new a small country church under the threat of closure has received an unexpected Christmas gift, a fresh lease of life.
St Andrews Uniting Church is located in the town of Howlong, which sits alongside the Murray River 28km west of Albury.
It is no wonder that a family of keen back country skiers and bushwalkers would be looking forward to moving to Tasmania, but for Rohan Pryor the real allure is in taking up his role as synod liaison minister for the Apple Isle.
“This excitement comes with a deep sense of call to this role, something like the right role at the ...
Rev Alistair Macrae believes his congregation and the wider church will face some big challenges this year but they are put in perspective by some newcomers to Wesley Uniting Church.
“We’ve got a new family of asylum seekers from Iran,” Mr Macrae said.
“The father had his own business in Iran but became a Christian, and really couldn’t stick ...
To watch a Christmas message from UCA President Stuart McMillan please click here or on the image above.
See below for transcript.
Stuart McMillan: Christmas greetings to you. I’m Stuart McMillan, the President of the Uniting Church in Australia. Light breaks into darkness to reveal where we are and where we’re going. Friends I’m here with the ...
Watch a Christmas message from Uniting Aboriginal & Islander Christian Congress Chairperson Rev Dennis Corowa by clicking here or the image above.
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Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Moderator Sharon Hollis has offered the following prayer in the wake of Thursday’s deliberate running down of pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD.
Loving, merciful God
You come amongst us as a fragile baby,
healing the grief and sorrow of the world
through your loving suffering solidarity with humanity.
We pray for the city of Melbourne.
While the eternal and transcendent might be considered the proper preoccupations for an academic theologian, Sean Winter says his new role is in keeping with a much more grounded approach that has been forged in constant change.
Dr Winter will next year become director of synod’s Education & Formation for Leadership team, which will encompass his current roles as acting head of ...
UCA Funds Management Chief Executive Officer Michael Walsh admits he is sceptical about the results achieved when investment institutions add their name to action plans which tackle issues such as climate change.
“Over more than 20 years in the ethical investment industry I have seen a lot of firms sign up to show support for initiatives relating to climate change. While ...
When Ulverstone Uniting Church minister Rev Gospel Ralte baptised Emily and Linda Fanai in a Malaysian refugee camp in 2012 he could not have guessed how his path would one day again intersect with the twins and their family.
Five years later the Fanai family, consisting of the twins, their parents Sena and Mimi and big brother Joel, is living only 115km north of Mr Ralte, and ...
The images associated with Christmas, in popular culture and advertising but also increasingly on personal social media accounts, are invariably happy ones of people surrounded by family and friends.
Richmond Uniting Church minister Rev Dr Sally Douglas said she believed that the notion of having a perfect Christmas created a lot of pressure, and sometimes heartbreak, for those ...
