Emmet O’Cuana (pictured) is the new online content coordinator for the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania.
His previous experience has included website management, government policy and social media promotion for volunteer charities and not-for-profits.
In his spare time he is also a freelance writer, avid blogger and indiscriminate reader.
By Nigel Tapp
how to get your ex backHobart documentary filmmaker Heather Kirkpatrick has given up two years of her life – and more than $150,000 of her own funds, a loan and donations – to give asylum seekers a voice.
By April Robinson and Larry Marshall
Uniting Through Faiths – Synod of UCA
ON a warm sun-kissed autumnal day, we head out to the seaside at Frankston. This will be a guided journey to three faith communities organised by the local Frankston Inter-faith Network (FIN). We work in the Synod, facilitating respectful inter-faith conversations and we are keen to ...
WESLEY Fire and Clay is a social enterprise and disability day program of Wesley Mission Victoria, which provides supported employment opportunities for up to 41 people living with a disability.
Producing a unique range of ceramics and glassware, Wesley’s Fire and Clay craftspeople have a diverse range of talents and skills. Operating out of Lilydale, the program produces distinctive, ...
World War II veteran Ted Howe knows what it is like to lose good mates. Mr Howe stood alongside about 100 fellow soldiers at the beginning of the Kokoda Campaign in Papua New Guinea, in July 1942, as part of B Company of the 2/31 Battalion 7th Division. Less than 10 soldiers from the 7th Division survived. The campaign ...
On April 25, Anzac Day, Australians will pause to remember those who served in war under our nation’s flag, particularly those who didn’t return. Nigel Tapp spoke with World War Two veteran Ted Howe about his experiences.
World War II veteran Ted Howe knows what it is like to lose good mates. Mr Howe stood alongside about 100 fellow soldiers ...
Hannah Rate (pictured), a member of Koornang Uniting Church, Murrumbeena, is the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania’s first recipient of a $1500 Joan Stott Uniting Church Adult Fellowship (UCAF) bursary for study in 2013.
The bursary has been awarded by the UCAF National Committee (based in WA) whose members agreed unanimously to accept Ms Rate’s application. ...
The spirit of Christmas came to the fore in mid-December when members of the Mission Liaison Group (MLG) heard the news that communities in Samoa and Fiji had been battered by the onslaught of Cyclone Evan. Rev John Connan is the convener of MLG. He admits it took him a few days to process the news of the devastation in ...
Congratulations to Vivian Dawood, from Lentara UnitingCare who recently received the 2012 Youth Volunteer of the Year award for the electorate of Caldwell.
Ms Dawood joined Lentara UnitingCare as a volunteer in June 2012. She works one day a week supporting the marketing and communications function and another day with emergency relief.
A presentation of flowers was made to Anita Tozer (nee Nielson) by Rev Robert Renton at a church service in February in recognition of more than 50 years of devoted service playing the organ at the former Bulla Uniting Church and more ...
By Nigel Tapp
The simple light brown brick house overlooks the Port of Bell Bay, in Tasmania’s north. On the outside it is nothing flash. It is when you get beyond the door that you realise why running the Bell Bay Seafarers’ Mission (BBSM) has been a labour of love for more than 20 years for several members of the ...
Painting by Wes Campbell
By Christina Rowntree and Wes Campbell
For Rev Dr Wes Campbell painting is an integral part of his identity as a preacher. His self-portrait, The Preacher of the Cross, shows the painter/preacher at work. It has been said that painter Arthur Boyd had a sense of being bound to his art, ...
