New target for UnitingCare Christmas Appeal
Last month marked the launch of the 24th annual UnitingCare and Target Christmas Appeal, which has distributed more than 2 million gifts to local people who are doing it tough.
Bacchus Marsh birthday bash
Ross Adams (designer), Geoff Butler (Mr Leadlights craftsman), Barry Wilkins and Jayne Wilkins (donors) More than 120 people recently gathered to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the historic St Andrew’s Church at Bacc
A big year for NextGen
The synod’s NextGen youth have celebrated a year of milestones and achievements in 2015. This year marked 30 years since the Uniting Church declared itself a multicultural Church.
A man of many talents – Andrew Donnelly obituary
Rev Andrew Donnelly 13/09/1956 – 20/10/2015 The Uniting Church congregations of Bairnsdale, Paynesville and Lindenow are saddened by the death of their former minister, Rev Andrew Donnelly, on October 20 at Bright Hospit
Sharing hope after Sandy Hook
By Deb Bennett On the morning of December 14, 2012, Kaitlin Roig-Debellis posted a photo of the sunrise on her Facebook page before heading off to work.
December letters
The UCA dares to be different I beg to differ on Ted Carrow’s criticism in the last issue of Crosslight of the Uniting Church for failing to fall into line with most other mainstream churches on the issue of marriage equ
Uniting Church joins Tasmanian Gambling Reform Coalition
At the start of November the Presbytery of Tasmania joined a coalition of 15 community organisations to pressure the Hodgman Government to reduce the $200 million lost in Tasmania each year on pokies, before phasing out
Thank you Colleen
The presbytery of Tasmania recently honoured Colleen Grieve’s 40 years of service as an ordained minister.
Safe church – a shared responsibility
By Penny Mulvey As the Uniting Church continues to address the issues revealed through the investigation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, different synods have developed strategies
Permit granted
Heritage Victoria recently announced permit approval for the proposed redevelopment at the Wesley Upper Lonsdale Street site located in Melbourne’s CBD.
Reflection from a commune in France
Alan Austin is a Uniting Church member and former Crosslight journalist who lives in Nîmes in the south of France. He shares his reflections on the impact of terror in his adopted homeland.
Bullets and Bibles
An exhibition displaying a Bible that saved the life of a young soldier in Gallipoli will visit Launceston during November and December.