EMMET O’CUANA
For the fifth year running, synod operations has canvassed congregations in Victoria and Tasmania inviting submissions for two online surveys. The 2015 Financial Return and the Community Life surveys were designed to give insight on the life of the synod from a grassroots perspective. The online survey committee includes representatives from Presbytery Ministry Administration (PMA) as well as ...
LAST month, Numurkah Uniting Church became the first rural church in Victoria to receive its formal Safe Church Recognition Certificate, which included adoption of the Keeping Children Safe Policy. It’s a church with no children attending regularly, so why did they think implementing a policy focusing on the safety of children was important to embed in their culture?
Irene Deborah was completely unprepared for what happened when the Jeep window was wound down in Sepang village, northern Bali a few months ago.
“The smell was so bad,” Ms Deborah said.
Ms Deborah, program director for the Maha Bhoga Marga (MBM) Foundation, had pulled up in front of the village’s main meeting space with UnitingWorld’s Debora Murthy.
If the thought of cycling more than 500 kilometres sends a lazy shudder up your spine, spare a thought for a group of 18 Australians who recently pedalled their way across Cambodia and Vietnam.
Organised by Disability Sport & Recreation (DSR) and supported by the Uniting Journeys program, the 13-day tour included nine riders with a range ...
It may seem too easy, but a church can reduce its power bills by up to $40 a week simply by contacting their current provider and ensuring they are receiving the best possible tariff price.
And that is without taking any proactive steps to reduce consumption.
“We need to keep talking about these issues, we need to keep caring for each other. It’s an issue that’s very close to my heart and an issue I am passionate about.”
Moderator Rev Sharon Hollis backed up those words delivered to a carers’ lunch in Tasmania by attending three Mental Health Week-themed events in three days ...
A recent study by ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service) found that more than 3 million Australians live below the poverty line. Throughout anti-poverty week, much discussion has focussed on young school-leavers, generational welfare dependence, lone-parent families and older people living on the pension. A group which is largely overlooked in ...
Last week in Melbourne at the launch of the Living Stones campaign, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Reverend Dr Olav Fyske Tveit highlighted that next year Palestinian Christians will have been living under Israeli military occupation for 50 years.
He was speaking at the lunchtime release of the Uniting Church’s Living Stones website, which provides ...
The Uniting Church is calling on the Pakistani government to repeal the country’s blasphemy laws as Christian woman Asia Bibi continues to languish on death row.
In 2009, Ms Bibi was involved in a dispute at a well where she and her fellow farmhands were fetching water. One of her co-workers, who noticed Ms Bibi drinking a cup of ...
Nearly 30 years ago, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke declared he wanted no Australian child living in poverty by 1990.
But more children live under the poverty line today compared to a decade ago, according to a new report released by ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service).
The report, prepared by ACOSS in collaboration with the Social Policy ...
Moderator Sharon Hollis told a lunch for mental health carers at Clarence Uniting Church in Hobart on Wednesday that they were sending out an important message in an area that is still often shrouded in shame and silence.
“Mental health is one of the most stigmatised illnesses in our community,” Ms Hollis told the gathering of 30 people who had ...
Overnight the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a New Hampshire event in support of Hilary Clinton.
Repeatedly Obama referred to Donald Trump solely as ‘the Opponent’ and stated that the role of President requires a candidate who can observe ‘basic decency’.
It is a powerful speech. Obama commands the room with her direct language and emotion. She describes how ...
