The servant community
DEB BENNETT Last month we spoke with four Uniting Church volunteers who devote countless hours to serving their congregations and communities.
Place-to-place placement
DEB BENNETT Mobile ministry, an innovative placement idea, hopes it can soon offer support to country churches throughout the Loddon Mallee region.
Neomad takes the Gold
EMMET O’CUANA A few years ago Crosslight profiled Australian online comic and multimedia project Neomad.
Singing for social justice
TIM LAM Uniting Church members in the Warrnambool region are using the power of song to bring about social change.
Justice for Timor-Leste
TIM LAM Australia played an instrumental role restoring peace to Timor-Leste following the 1999 independence referendum.
Timeless tale
Film |The Jungle Book |PG Review by ROS MARSDEN Keen to “forget your worries and your strife”? Then treat yourself to a night at the cinema to see the 2016 version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
St Stephen’s host Ni-Vanuatu nurses
ADRIENNE DYALL In the April Crosslight, Jim Wakelam challenged readers to think about ways to respond to need.
Tales from the past
Book | Out of the Ordinary: Twelve Australian Methodist Biographies | editors: Patricia Curthoys and William W. Emilsen.
Diamond wedding celebrations
John and Margaret Williams celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on 20 March with a large gathering of family and friends. The couple are members of Mountview Uniting Church in Mitcham.
Prison preachers
Book | Opening the Doors: A Prison Chaplain’s Life On The Inside | Paul Gill Review by GARY DAVIDSON Author Paul Gill served as senior prison chaplain and coordinating chaplain at Western Australia’s Casuarina Pris
A lifelong commitment to ministry
Approximately 60 people came together at Mortlake Uniting Church for Lorraine Tonzing’s final service as lay preacher.
Subversive faith
Book | Seeing – Remembering – Connecting: subversive practices of being Church | Karen L.