Uniting AgeWell recently farewelled outgoing executive director Sharon Donovan (pictured).
Ms Donovan served in the position since 2011 and oversaw implementation of many aspects of the AgeWell philosophy.
Commenting on the changes, Ms Donovan said she was pleased to see a distinct shift towards choice across the organisation’s facilities.
By Chip Henriss
Fundraising is one of the most important functions any not for profit organisation carries out. Share fundraises to support selected high-impact community services programs of UnitingCare and the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania and disaster response programs in ...
At first glance there seems to be little linking the church and purple semi-trailers but Rev Dr Jennifer Byrnes certainly managed to find and explore it at CommuniTAS 2014, the Presbytery of Tasmania’s annual weekend get-together.
About 60 people – including a significant smattering of children – gathered at Camp Banksia, near Port Sorell, for the camp held from August ...
The Penguin Uniting Church is celebrating its own slice of Commonwealth Games glory.
Cyclist Amy Cure – the granddaughter of well-known parishioners Bill and Margaret Cure – won a silver medal in the scratch race and bronze in the individual pursuit at July’s Games ...
A Service of Separation was held for Rev Margaret Russell and Pastor John Russell in the Donald Uniting Church, where representatives from all the congregations in their parish gathered. Approximately 300 people attended a luncheon following the service, where the Russells’ work in churches and the wider community was acknowledged.
Chairperson of Donald Church Council Colin Coates said the service ...
The Kyneton Ministers’ Fellowship hosted a community Thanksgiving Day at St Paul’s Park in June to thank local Country Fire Authority(CFA) volunteers. The fellowship is an ecumenical church leadership group made up of clergy and representatives from the Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic and Uniting Churches of Kyneton District.
Temukisa Vaeluaga, from Mia Mia-Kyneton Uniting Church, said that, in spite of ...
IN MAY, the Cobden Uniting Church proudly re-opened their Opportunity Shop, which had been closed for a few weeks while undergoing renovations and redecoration. The addition of an extension incorporates more shop space, a new kitchen and bathroom facilities as well as a lovely community space which can be used for meetings, coffee and a chat, or a quiet read ...
ON THE weekend of 12-14 September this year, something new is brewing in the West of Victoria. Based in the Grampians, a small group retreat with a difference is being trialled.
The retreat has been organised by Rev Susan Pearse and Julie Andrew from Stawell Uniting Church and Leonie McGuckian from Uniting Church Camping, and they hope it will ...
Once a month, the Hobart North congregation makes its weekly Sunday service more inclusive for hearing impaired members by offering sign language interpretation.
Generally it is a communion service on the fourth Sunday. The initiative began when the former New Town Road (and later the New Town-Moonah) congregation offered signing support to members in the 1990s.
Many churches would claim to be inclusive of people with a disability – wheelchair ramps, widened doorways and handrails ensure access for all. So it may come as a surprise to realise that churches are among the least inclusive places in Australia.
Rob Nicholls is the church engagement coordinator with CBM Australia (formerly Christian Blind Mission). Although much of the ...
George Town Uniting Church stalwart Beryl Osborne (pictured) believes volunteers are the lifeblood of small communities such as hers in Northern Tasmania.
“George Town would not survive without volunteers but, unfortunately, people are very busy and it is not easy to get members these days,” Mrs Osborne said.
Last month she was one of nine Uniting Church Vic/Tas people ...
Alexander Cruden, that grimly indefatigable one-man biblical search-engine of the eighteenth century, … prefaced his collection of usages of the word ‘silence’ with the observation that among other things, it ‘does not only signify the ordinary silence, or refraining from speaking; but also in the stile of the Hebrews…an entire ruin or destruction, for a total subjection…for death and the ...
