Earlier this year the Bairnsdale Uniting Church donated a parcel of land located at Glenaladale, 300 kilometres east of Melbourne, to the Country Fire Authority. The land was once the site of the Glenaladale Presbyterian Church and, after ceasing services in 1990, the 1891 building was moved to Bairnsdale where it is used as an art workshop.
As a member of St Stephens Uniting Church, Wodonga, I recently welcomed Rev Dr Donald MacEwan to conduct a service. Dr MacEwan and his wife, Maia, were visiting Australia from Scotland, where he is the chaplain at St Andrews University in Fife, Scotland.
The MacEwans had travelled to Australia to attend the International Association of Chaplains in ...
The Greensborough Living Faith Church celebrated a decade of outreach and adventure on Sunday 10 July. An innovative co-operation of the Uniting Church and Churches of Christ, the two churches came together 10 years ago under the motto: “We can do more together than we can apart.”
REV DEACON JEANNE BEALE
(Chaplain – Aitken College)
One cold morning last term, I arrived at my door keen to get out of the weather, when Elizabeth (a year 4 student) ran up to me and said “Rev, I have written a poem about Jesus!” She was so excited. I asked her to tell me her poem, and ...
More than 115 higher education chaplains met in Bendigo for the Global Chaplaincy Conference in July.
The week-long conference is hosted every four years in different locations throughout the world. The chaplains at the 2016 conference came from all corners of the globe, including Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Africa, Europe and Hong Kong. They gathered to share ...
Two Uniting Church congregations, Brunswick and Sophia Springs, joined forces on the 18 June (the eve of Refugee Week) to raise funds for the Lentara Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre (ASWC). More than 80 people enjoyed a home-style, three-course dinner while raising more than $10,000.
The ASWC offers a safe and welcoming space for people seeking asylum in Melbourne providing ...
Wesley College student Tim Bliss is knee deep in economics, biology, maths and chemistry books. But that hasn’t stopped the 18-year-old and a group of friends from establishing a fundraising triathlon event, Tri-for-Change, to raise money for Share and their vital agency work.
“My grandfather, George Gilbertson, was a big supporter of Share,” Tim said. “After he passed away ...
Last month 60 Cornish College students and 11 staff swapped their warm beds for cardboard boxes when they took part in the Winter Sleep Out. The event has already raised $12,000, with more money set to come in. The funds will be used to buy Backpack Beds for homeless people through the charity Swags for Homeless.
Dick Carter retired as the chair of UCA Funds Management last month after reaching the statutory board membership maximum of 10 years.
During that time he guided Funds Management through the turbulent 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis – when the Australian Stock Exchange fell 54 per cent in 16 months – to a healthy position, with funds under management currently close ...
What does a group of middle aged and older people and a gang of grade 6 students have in common? At Darebin, it’s a love of their iPads.
Students from Preston West Primary School have been trekking up the road to Darebin North West Uniting Church to help some older residents to learn how to use their iPads.
Many people gathered at Castlemaine Uniting Church recently to celebrate 50 years since Rev Adrian Pegler was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian and later the Uniting Church.
His time in ministry included placements at churches in Melbourne, Tongala, Yarram, Bendigo West, Romsey-Lancefield and Alexandra.
Mr Pegler recalled arriving at his first parish as a young minister and ...
“If you had to leave home, for fear of being killed, what would you take with you?”
This was the question asked by Mohammed from Lentara Uniting Care when he spoke to 50 school students from Uniting Church schools. One of the responses was, “a passport”.
“Unfortunately,” Mohammed said, “many people fleeing their homes do not have a chance to ...
