Ballarat UnitingCare’s collaborative art project, Under the Floorboards, will soon culminate with a full scale exhibition and black-tie gala event.
Throughout 2013 the unique UnitingCare project commissioned an array of artists to work alongside various community support programs the agency is involved with.
Painters, filmmakers, playwrights and artists working in other mediums have undertaken ...
When we declared in 1985 at the 4th National Assembly that ‘the Uniting Church is a multicultural Church’ we affirmed that we are a diverse church. Diversity is the hallmark of a multicultural church. Many within our church would readily affirm how we are enriched by the cultural, racial and ethnic diversities.
The saying is true: there is no such thing as bad publicity. When the American writer Reza Aslan was subjected to an especially crass interview on Fox News recently, his book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, swiftly climbed to the top spot on the Amazon bestseller list, knocking J K Rowling out of the way in ...
Kildonan UnitingCare is in the running to receive up to $2 million from corporate entity eftpos…and it needs your vote.
The Melbourne-based agency is one of 140 charities who have made a submission for the eftpos ‘Giveback 2013’ campaign, in which shoppers will be asked to support Australian charities by pressing CHQ or SAV at the checkout.
After six years of Pancake Days, emergency appeals, Lenten and Winter Appeals, grant distributions and other fundraising efforts, David Hickey, the director of SHARE, is moving on.
In his time with SHARE, Mr Hickey has built strong relationships with donors, has developed a strategic approach to the Uniting Church’s fundraising arm and has worked to raise the profile of SHARE ...
Justin Seidel is a charming young man whose passion for B-Boy culture (traditionally called breakdance in the media) and his Christian faith has inspired him to use dance as a method of connecting with youth.
Seidel’s sincerity, coupled with an ability to see a parallel between dance and faith, has allowed him to sidestep the superficial trappings ...
When Rev Mark Dunn decided he wanted a challenge in life, he probably had no idea he would find himself preaching to more than 1000 people in the Solomon Islands.
At a time when some might consider coasting through the rest of their working days before retirement, the St John’s Essendon UC minister made the rather unlikely decision to join ...
Geelong’s newest locals will be warm this winter thanks to donations given to the Ocean Grove UC’s Justice and Mission group (JIM) and the Baptist Gumnut Grove Op Shop.
write my college essayThirty refugees have recently moved into the Geelong area and generous locals have donated coats, blankets, hats and scarves to ...
For more than 60 years, the Friendship Group at Wheelers Hill Uniting Church have been combining fun with fundraising. Their most recent event was ‘Sari Night’, hosted by Wheelers Hill minister Rev Charles Sundaresan and his wife Saras.
Members of the friendship group were able to choose from Saras’ wardrobe of saris collected over many years. Friendship group member Eleanor ...
Rev Andrew Donnelly (pictured) is only half joking when he talks about the appeal of his new role as chaplain at Uniting Aged Care’s Kingsville facility.
“I tell people ‘I like older people, I’m going to be one soon’.”
Mr Donnelly said he enjoyed working with older people as a parish minister and was impressed by what he saw ...
On 19 May, the day of Pentecost, Ballarat Central Uniting Church issued a challenge to its own congregation and neighbouring churches to climb the steep hill alongside the church and sign the Micah Challenge. In the year 2000, Australia – along with 188 other nations – signed the Millennium Declaration which states:
More than 60 people travelled from Ballarat, Maryborough, Avoca, Moonambel and surrounding districts to celebrate the centenary of the Moonambel Uniting Church in April.
Mrs Coralie Gee (nee Castleman) cut the birthday cake made by local baker Sam Beavis. In the bottom corners of the cake, Mr Beavis added the initials of the late John Streeter and Doug Streeter, brothers ...
