2024 Assembly Calendar of Dates
Welcome to the 2024 Assembly Calendar
On this page you will find the 2024 dates for the key days we mark together as a national Uniting Church, events held around the Uniting Church that are open to all, key liturgical dates, key ecumenical dates and events, and various dates that are marked socially/culturally that you may like to mark in your local community.
This calendar is intended as a resource to help Uniting Church communities consider the shape of the year and help their planning. Further dates will be added as we become aware of them.
Could this calendar be more helpful, or have we missed an event the national Uniting Church should know about? Email us to let us know.
Red = national Uniting Church date or Uniting Church resource available
January
21 Uniting Church Day of Mourning - worship resource available
26 Australia/Survival Day - Survival Day message available
February
1-4 Retreat Yourself
5-8 Raise our Tribal Voices Conference
13 Anniversary of the Apology to Stolen Generations
14 Ash Wednesday
14 Lent begins (until 28 March)
March
1 World Day of Prayer
8 International Women's Day
21 Close the Gap Day
21 Harmony Week (including International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination)
24 Palm Sunday
29 March – 1 April Easter weekend - President’s Easter Message
April
4-6 Talanoa Oceania Conference
4-7 Northern Synod meeting
24 Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
25 ANZAC Day - resource from the Uniting Church Defence Force Chaplains Committee
May
5 UnitingWorld Sunday - resources from UnitingWorld
18 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
19 Pentecost
19 Uniting in Prayer (national prayer event) (until 22 June) - resources to come from the Act2 Project
26 Sorry Day
26 Trinity Sunday
27 May-3 June National Reconciliation Week
June
16-22 Refugee Week
22 Uniting Church Anniversary - President’s Anniversary Message
July
7-14 NAIDOC Week
10 30th Anniversary of the Covenant
11-16 17th Assembly meeting (Sydney)
21 Intercultural Neighbouring Sunday* - resources to come from the Assembly
August
4 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day
September
1 September-4 October Season of Creation
1 Child Safe Sunday (UCA Child Safe Week)* - resources to come from the National Safe Church Unit
October
1 Uniting Church Older Persons Sunday* - resource to come from Uniting Friends of Ageing (UnitingCare Australia)
22 Anniversary - National Apology to Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse* - resources to come from UCA Redress
November
1 All Saints Day
24 Reign of Christ Sunday
25 Nov-10 Dec 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
December
1-24 Advent
25 Christmas Day - President’s Christmas Message
January 2025