RHONDA MATHESON-BROWNE
Bookworms can purchase newly released books and raise funds for a worthwhile cause when Ocean Grove Uniting Church hosts a biannual book sale.
For the past four decades, a group of Ocean Grove locals have driven fundraising efforts to alleviate poverty in overseas communities.
Ocean Grove Uniting Church members Lyn Mulligan, Joan Calcutt, Barry Calcutt and Pat ...
LORRAINE BAXTER
More than 140 past and present members gathered at St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Berwick last month to celebrate 160 years of worship. Rev Wendy Snook particularly welcomed descendants of the early pioneers of the church and acknowledged the pioneers managed to establish the church through challenging and difficult times.
Ms Snook spoke of the ...
The Treble Tones Ladies Choir is set to light up Burwood Uniting Church when they perform their annual concert ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ on Saturday 27 May.
The choir, first formed in 1962, was known as the United Ladies Choir before it changed its name to Treble Tones in 1998. It currently has 29 members who sing ...
Whether it was a match made in heaven or merely a stitch in time, an upcoming exhibit will celebrate the long-running partnership between The Embroiderers Guild, Victoria, and an ‘incorrigible’ collector of ceremonial church garments.
The Holy Stitches exhibition will feature vestments and other church furnishings collected over a period of 20 years by the appropriately named ...
When you mention the name Rev Peter Cook to locals in the Hamilton area, the first thing that often comes to mind is his generous support for people in need. So it was fitting that the community honoured his legacy by pledging to perform one kind act for another person.
Last year, community members in Hamilton started ...
THE congregation at St Albans Uniting Church recently celebrated 25 years of worship with a special service on 26 February.
Back in February 1992, six Filipino families gathered at the Brooklyn Uniting Church in Altona.
This later became the first Filipino Uniting Church congregation in Australia.
The Filipino Uniting Church joined the congregation at St Albans in ...
ABOUT five years ago the Clarence Uniting Church’s Unicorn op shop, on Hobart’s eastern shore in Southern Tasmania, had a problem.
The shop was inundated with unwanted denim – jeans by the truckload were being donated but no one was interested in buying them, even at $1 a pair.
Back at the church, a member of the congregation was ...
Candidates at Pilgrim Theological College and faculty staff spent five days in Tasmania last month experiencing ministry and the life of the Church in the island state.
It was the first field trip of its kind arranged with a presbytery.
Head of College Rev Dr Jenny Byrnes said it was a golden opportunity for candidates to imagine themselves in ...
When it comes to lay preachers, Sprent Shalom Uniting Church is Miles ahead of all others.
After all, three generations of the Miles family have preached from the pulpit of the North-West Tasmania rural church since the end of World War II.
For the last 50 years, Keeton Miles has stood where his father, Gordon, previously led worship. Keeton’s daughter, ...
Art lovers, architecture enthusiasts and aspiring artists will all find inspiration at this year’s Uniting AgeWell Strathdon Community Art Exhibition.
Celebrating its 14th year, the Forest Hill exhibition contributes to Melbourne’s love affair with arts and culture.
The exhibition features multi-award winning artist Jo Reitze as guest judge and internationally renowned artists Pamela Irving – whose works feature ...
Betty Burgess is getting used to turning up to Government House to be recognised.
The 91-year-old from Pascoe Vale received her Order of Australia Medal from the Governor of Victoria, Linda Dessau, in October. Only 12 months previously, Mrs Burgess was at Government House receiving a senior achiever award from COTA, the peak national organisation representing the rights, needs ...
Opera Su Presto will be performing at Toorak Uniting Church on 18 December to raise funds for people with dementia.
Its new show Les Liaisons Misérables is a political farce set in the court of Louis XVI. Directed by James Wright, it features period costumes and songs by Handel, Mozart, Lerner and Loewe, Rossini and Bernstein.
The concert is a ...
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