Effective visiting

I have a booklet that was published by the Joint Board of Christian Education way back in 1986. It was part of a Uniting Church Elder Series and the subject matter was ‘Effective Visiting’.

Singing from the same hymn book

People with a shared love of music gathered together on Valentine’s Day last month for the Rutherglen Big Sing. MC for the day was Zelma Eltringham, one of 60 people who met in the Uniting Church in Rutherglen.

Almost 50 tonnes of food for families

Wesley Mission Victoria’s annual Food for Families appeal has collected an unprecedented 49 tonnes of food for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Subversive Tradition

Behind the formal declaration of International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975 there is a longer tradition.

Fifty years of Nits

Back in the 1960s, St John’s Presbyterian (now Uniting) Church in Essendon was awash with teenagers, many of whom were active in what was then the PFA (Presbyterian Fellowship of Australia).

MSR information sessions underway

By NIGEL TAPP All church members have been invited to a series of synod-wide information sessions to inform and provide feedback on the vision and plans of the Major Strategic Review (MSR).

Letters to the editor – March

Giving up prejudice Lent is said to be a time of self-imposed abstinence. This Lent maybe it’s time we go a little further and try to give up more than chocolates.

Vintage Valentines

Alan and Phyllis Clayton. Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate all things to do with love. And as the saying goes, you are never too old for love.

UCA President Stuart McMillan on #LetThemStay

UCA President Stuart McMillan has issued a Pastoral Statement on the legal ramifications of congregations providing sanctuary for the refugees at the centre of the Let Them Stay campaign.

Friday Forum

Your views on the news At Crosslight, we love to hear what you think. So on Friday, it’s over to you. The News The #Letthemstay campaign has dominated headlines and opinion pieces for the past fortnight.

Cuts to rural health funding

Credit – Penny Mulvey Rev David Thompson, administration minister for the Uniting Church’s Presbytery of Western Victoria has written to Sussan Ley, Minister for Health and Fiona Nash, Minister for Rural Health to