Morning commuters passing through Southern Cross station on Friday can help reduce energy costs for vulnerable families – and it will only cost them a high-five.
For each person who high-fives ‘Dave’, EnergyAustralia will donate $1 towards Kildonan UnitingCare’s energy visits and appliance swap program.
Kildonan UnitingCare energy advisers help households save money on energy bills through face-to-face visits. ...
Rosemary Brown’s extraordinary life of helping others leads to a question that she has trouble answering.
“People ask ‘what drives me?’” she said.
“I have no idea. It is just inside my gut. You could say Christian conviction and sure I have a Christian faith. I was bought up in evangelical circles but I still say it was born ...
Uniting Church leaders appearing before the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse have pledged to survivors to make the Church the safest place it can be for children.
President Stuart McMillan assured the Royal Commission hearing in Sydney on Friday 10 March that the Uniting Church would continue to apply the lessons learned from the Commission’s work.
On behalf of the Uniting Church in Australia, I sincerely apologise to all children in our care who suffered sexual abuse, of any kind, in our Church, whether it happened since union of 1977 or before that in our predecessor Churches.
We are, and I am, deeply sorry that we didn’t protect and care in accordance with our ...
The Uniting Church in Australia will appear at a public hearing for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuses in Sydney today.
President Stuart McMillan, Assembly general secretary Colleen Geyer and Queensland general secretary Rev Heather den Houting will answer questions about the Uniting Church’s current child-protection and child-safety standards, including responses to allegations of child ...
The theme of Wednesday’s International Women’s Day was #BeBoldForChange and 22 women from culturally diverse communities took up that challenge by speaking of their personal experience of family violence.
While many women are naturally reluctant to speak about their experience of domestic abuse, this is particularly true of women from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Moderator Sharon Hollis told an International Women’s Day lunch that women were engaging in bold acts every day to change the world but they weren’t necessarily the ones being publicly celebrated.
“When we overemphasise a boldness that is public and upfront but don’t value the boldness of the everyday we actually short change the majority of women,” ...
A 99-year-old Uniting AgeWell resident has shaved her head to raise money for the Cancer Council.
For the third consecutive year, residents at Uniting AgeWell Lillian Martin Community in Tasmania participated in the Relay for Life marathon, where they complete laps around the facility. Last year, they raised more than $700 for the Cancer Council.
“I have found in the last seven years I’ve been at the school that my world, my understanding of God, my understanding of what it means to be a human person in this world has just exploded. It just seems to get bigger and bigger all the time. And I love that. I love that ...
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” – Galatians 3:28
I have been watching the SBS shows broadcast as part of a themed week on race and prejudice – FU2Racism: Face Up to Racism. I found myself ...
Uniting Church president Stuart McMillan has issued a pastoral statement ahead of the Church’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
On Friday 10 March 2017 the Uniting Church in Australia will appear at a public hearing for Case Study 56 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into ...
A Uniting Church in regional Victoria is planning to use live-streaming technology to bring worship services directly to ageing congregation members.
For many people living in the Henty region in south-west Victoria, age and distance can make it difficult to attend church on a Sunday.
To address this problem, Hamilton Uniting Church hopes to live stream their weekly worship ...
