UnitingCare and Target are calling on shoppers to give generously to support families in need this Christmas.
This year marks 25 years since the UnitingCare and Target Christmas Appeal began. Organisers hope to raise more than $1.5 million to support UnitingCare community service programs.
Supporters are invited to drop an unwrapped gift under the Christmas tree at the front ...
Some of Australia’s most talented Indigenous artists will perform at Narana Aboriginal Cultural Centre on Saturday 5 November as part of NaranaFest.
The festival, which made a successful return last year following a 10-year hiatus, will continue a year-long celebration of Songlines, the NAIDOC Week theme for 2016.
Songlines describes the dreaming tracks that recorded the journeys of ancestral spirits ...
Warragul Uniting Church is preparing to host a light lunch that features a panel of accomplished Gippsland women talking about facing up to the increasingly challenging aspects of rural and regional life.
The lunch will be chaired by Uniting Church VicTas Moderator Sharon Hollis.
“Our theme is Courage Doesn’t Have to Roar and we are keen to ...
David French, a conservative writer for the National Review, was recently interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. He describes in the interview the fallout from his critical coverage of the online Alt-Right movement, particularly its connections to the Donald Trump campaign. He mentioned repeated tweets that his wife was cheating on him ...
Emergency authorities are warning Victorians to prepare themselves for a significant bushfire season.
Recent rains have fuelled substantial grass growth, which will increase the likelihood of fire once temperature rises.
At the launch of Fire Action Week on Monday, emergency management commissioner Craig Lapsley said the risk of fire is expected to be highest in January and February.
DAVID SOUTHWELL
Christmas hasn’t always been that festive for Jill*.
“I actually spent one Christmas eating two-minute noodles,” she said.
With the help of Wesley Mission Victoria’s annual Food for Families appeal, which marks its 25th anniversary this year, Jill now has a Christmas to look forward to.
“I wouldn’t be having one without them,” she said.
Syria was once a vibrant and prosperous country like Australia, with a population of 23 million people.
But since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, almost half of the population has been displaced. A brief ceasefire in Aleppo ended this week with many civilians still trapped in the besieged city. No aid has entered Aleppo since 7 July and the ...
Connections UnitingCare Chief Executive Officer Angela Forbes used a very Melbourne analogy to powerfully illustrate how hundreds of thousands of children are not being given a sporting chance in Australia.
Speaking last Friday afternoon at the WJ Craig Lecture and Anti-Poverty Awards presentation ceremony in Federation Square, Ms Forbes said last week’s published research by the Australian Council of ...
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 ...
