While most Uniting Church ministers spend their Sunday mornings preparing to lead a worship service, on Sunday 16 October Rev Nigel Hanscamp will be preparing to line up with more than 30,000 runners to complete the Melbourne Marathon.
Long-distance running is a relatively new past time for the Heathmont Uniting Church minister. Five years ago, while living in New ...
Residents at Uniting AgeWell Strath-Haven in Bendigo celebrated Seniors Week with a Mary Poppins-themed afternoon tea.
On Tuesday, the aged care facility was transformed with costumes, spoons, kites, and flying umbrellas. Staff and residents got into character and performed musical items.
Leisure and lifestyle coordinator Kerryn Anderson said Mary Poppins was very popular among the residents. Many ...
Florence Barber has seen much throughout her 102 years. She lived through two World Wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and experienced the dawn of the internet.
The Noble Street Uniting Church member is celebrating her birthday on Tuesday with an afternoon tea with family and friends. A party was also held at the Noble ...
Uniting is the new community services organisation to be formed from 21 UnitingCare agencies and Wesley Mission Victoria.
Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited was established and governance for all 22 agencies was unified under a single board on 3 October 2016.
This is a first step in moving from a network of separate agencies to a single organisation.
A Pastoral Statement from the Rev Sharon Hollis
Moderator of the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
As Interfaith September draws to a close, I want to encourage people of all faiths, and none, to remember there are eleven other months in which we can also celebrate the strengths of interfaith dialogue and relationships.
Rev Michael Oban Obat is determined to rebuild South Sudan following a bloody civil war that left tens of thousands of casualties and displaced more than a million people.
Mr Obat is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, a partner of the Uniting Church in Australia.
During the civil war (2013-2015), the Presbyterian Church lost all ...
VicTas moderator Rev Sharon Hollis is inviting congregation members to join her for a series of community events during Mental Health Week (9-15 October).
Ms Hollis has personally experienced the challenges of caring for someone with a mental illness. In 2013, she lost her husband Michael to suicide following a battle with depression.
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Pottermore, the website continuing the Harry Potter experience for fans of the books – as descriptive titles go it nails the brief – launched a new feature overnight.
After answering a short series of questions, delivered through an interactive web browser game, visitors to the site ...
UnitingCare Australia has welcomed the federal government’s announcement of the Try, Test and Learn Fund as part of its vision to overhaul the welfare system.
On Tuesday, Social Services Minister Christian Porter outlined a plan to reduce intergenerational welfare dependency through an investment approach to welfare reform. This identifies groups most at risk of falling into the ‘welfare trap’ ...
Nestled on the banks of the Avoca River, the regional town of Charlton in Victoria’s north-west was one of the communities affected by last week’s floods.
Last Friday, the Avoca River peaked at a height of 7.55 metres, causing major flooding to roads and threatened to inundate the town.
Rev Veronica Bradley, minister at Charlton Uniting Church, lives next to ...
In the 65 years from 1788 in Australia, 25,655 women were transported from Britain and Ireland as convicts.
Most of these women have been known simply by their assigned convict number rather than as people. Rarely has the positive impact they made to the fledgling colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land been acknowledged.
Leaders from around the world will gather at New York on Monday to discuss the international response to the global refugee crisis.
This historic UN General Assembly summit aims to establish a more humane and coordinated blueprint to address the large-scale movements of refugees and migrants.
An estimated 65 million people are displaced throughout the world due to conflict ...
