The future of the Uniting Church was on show at the 2016 National Young Adult Leaders Conference (NYALC) held on the Gold Coast in July.
Approximately 130 young adults and mentors from various synods congregated at Burleigh Heads over the course of six days. This diverse group of participants traded stories and experiences as they grew together ...
Families worker Corinna Fong (fourth from left) was commissioned as a Lay Preacher at Surrey Hills Uniting Church. With Corinna are four lay preacher representatives from Yarra Yarra Presbytery, Arthur Tonkin (Lay Preacher since 1950), student Emma Dods and Rev Rob Gotch
The late Raymond Chandler Gardiner (third from left) – who passed away in September – and ...
The synod recently farewelled legal counsel Peter Shepherd following 17 years of dedicated service.
Mr Shepherd commenced work with the synod in 1999 and during his tenure he navigated the synod’s complex legal arrangements with calmness and professionalism.
Over those years, Mr Shepherd has provided property law advice, reviewed commercial agreements and government loan contracts, advised on copyright issues, ...
BOOK | BEYOND BELIEF | HUGH MACKAY
Beyond Belief is both a survey of contemporary Australian approaches to spirituality and a polemic tract outlining the author’s view of how God, Jesus and the Bible should be understood.
One of the most valuable aspects of the book is the strong first-person stories that Mackay collects from people ...
You can perfect your table tennis backhand topspin drive any time of the day or night during the annual Ping-Pong-A-Thon being held this month at the High Street Road Uniting Church in Mt Waverley to combat human trafficking and sex slavery.
There will be five tables set up for the event, which runs from noon on Friday October 28 ...
Deaconess Rae Quick
19 August 1922 – 16 July 2016
Rae Quick and her younger brother Ian grew up in Gippsland and were part of the church communities in the towns where their parents Jack and Dorothy ran small businesses. Rae went on to become a primary teacher and a teacher of domestic science. In the year 1952, ...
Guru Ravidass, who was active in the 15th century CE, was a North Indian Guru mystic of the bhakti movement, a monotheistic reform movement in which equality and rejection of caste hierarchy were major themes. His devotional songs and verses made a lasting impact upon the bhakti movement.
In one of his poems entitled, “Begumpura” he writes:
NIGEL TAPP
A new single board will assume governance responsibility for 22 Uniting Church community service agencies from Monday 3 October. The emerging organisation will be known as ‘Uniting’.
In June last year, the Synod Standing Committee (SSC) resolved to establish a single governance board to oversee service delivery and support functions for all community service across Victoria and Tasmania. ...
In 2015, the 14th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia agreed to support Constitutional Recognition as “… a step towards and not a blockage to the larger issues of sovereignty and treaty”.
The Assembly also committed to work with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) to educate members of the Church about the need for a ...
It is not obvious at first glance that Fiona Bottcher began her working life as an engineer, but words such as ‘build’ and ‘structure’ pop up in her description of what was enjoyable about the Art of Story course she completed in 2014 at the Centre for Theology and Ministry.
Silvia Yang can’t escape the feeling that God has had a hand in her new role as CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) relationship officer for the Uniting Church.
More than 10 years ago, when Silvia was struggling with the difficult decision to give up her life in Korea to support her children studying in Melbourne, it was her local ...
By Rev Barbara Allen
Spirituality and Creation Project Worker
As we approach World Animal Day (Feast of St Francis, 4 October) it is timely to take stock and consider our animal brethren. Animals feature in our lives, homes and churches in a myriad of ways, from companion and/or protector, as therapy/assistance animals, or as a reminder ...
