A group of year 10 Aitken College students recently took part in an overnight sleep out for a research project on homelessness in Australia.
Aitken College teacher Ben Lawless, who also took part in the sleep-out, said students were positioned to think critically about the issues surrounding homelessness.
Students heard from Steve Haylock, a guest speaker from Melbourne City Mission, ...
Staff from the 130 Little Collins Street office, and one ring-in from Uniting AgeWell, recently joined more than 12,000 participants on a drizzly Melbourne morning to take part in the annual CITY2SEA fun run.
The team, calling themselves 130 Little Collins Feet, included Ann Byrne, Amy Cullinan and her partner Andrew, Laura Cregan, Jenni Ferris and her partner Ben, Steve ...
Burwood Uniting Church will once again be running their Follow the Star program this Christmas season. Now in its 13th year, the event was started with one idea – to teach children about the Christmas story.
The church has been hard at work putting together 3D displays made up of toys, mannequins, and even handmade knitted dolls. These displays ...
Uniting Church minister and former synod staff member Rev Ric Holland (pictured) was recently awarded the St Michael’s Medallion in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the community as CEO of Melbourne City Mission.
On receiving the award, Mr Holland said he felt honoured and privileged to accept it on behalf of Melbourne City Mission – Melbourne’s oldest charity, ...
October marked the 10th year since the foundation of Uniting Aged Care, renamed Uniting AgeWell last year. Events were held throughout Victoria and Tasmania to commemorate the occasion.
Uniting AgeWell hasn’t just celebrated the last 10 years. The events have also focussed on remembering the work of congregations who set up care in their own communities, dating back to ...
Members of the community will come together next month for the annual Time of Remembering ceremony, held to honour and remember those killed, injured and traumatised on our roads. Now in its 14th year, the state-wide service coincides with World Day of Remembrance for Road Trauma Victims.
Last year alone, 243 people died on Victorian roads, and more than 6000 ...
The tradition of Eastern Christian spirituality and imagery will be celebrated at the Art Gallery of Ballarat from 18 October 2014 to 26 January 2015 with the exhibition EIKON: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World.
Gallery director Gordon Morrison, who is curating the exhibition for the Ballarat gallery, believes the exhibition will not only strike a chord with Christians ...
A community film night recently raised $10,000, enabling Queenscliff to become the latest Uniting Church to install solar panels. After years of discussion, the congregation invited the broader community to attend the Chasing Ice film night at the launch of its Pay for a Panel appeal.
Community development worker Heather Gallagher said the church spaces were well-used by outside groups, ...
Robert de Castella claims that humans have evolved to run marathons. He believes that of all God’s creatures, we are the only ones with the genetic disposition to maintain a constant run over 42.2 kilometres. However, most of us are a long way from fulfilling that evolutionary potential and, in fact, stand (literally) in awe of those who attempt ...
After six years as the Presbytery Minister-Leadership Development in Tasmania Rev Alison Whish (pictured) is moving to South Australia.
In November Alison will take up an appointment with the Newland Memorial congregation at Victor Harbor, about 80 kilometres south of Adelaide.
Ms Whish came to Tasmania from the Westernport Parish, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, in August 2008. She admits ...
There must be something in the water at Bacchus Marsh.
The St Andrew’s Uniting Church congregation in Bacchus Marsh recently marked some very impressive milestones. Most notably, the 100th birthday celebration of congregation member Eileen Taverner on 18 August.
Ms Taverner is pictured below with the Bacchus Marsh congregation’s many other stalwart luminaries who have been long time members of ...
The Commission for Mission has welcomed the arrival of the new director of UnitingCare Victoria and Tasmania, Stephanie Lagos (pictured).
The position oversees the governance of the UnitingCare Network throughout Victoria and Tasmania network.
With more than 30 years’ experience in the social welfare sector Ms Lagos’ most recent appointment was as at Slater and Gordon ...
