Intercultural Neighbouring Sunday Celebrate the cultural diversity at the heart of our Church and explore ways to build intercultural relationships in your neighbourhood.On Sunday 16 July, the Uniting Church will celebrate Intercultural Neighbouring Sunday (INS). Emerging from a decision of the 16th Assembly meeting, it will be the first time Uniting Church communities are invited […]
A Biblical lens on InterculturalInspired by a presentation from Rev Assoc Prof Monica Melanchthon to the Intercultural Forum in the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Monica, Bethany Broadstock shares four take-away insights on the imperative to hear ‘voices from the margins’ and the implications for an Intercultural Church. Rev Assoc Prof Melanchthon is a renowned […]
Intercultural Neighbouring SundayIn May the 16th Assembly passed a resolution to strengthen the Uniting Church’s commitment to living life and faith interculturally through a range of measures. This included the adoption of a new annual celebration – Intercultural Neighbouring Sunday. We asked Rev Dr Paul Goh, who proposed the Assembly resolution, to explain the thinking […]
The landscape of National Conferences in the UCA Written by Rev Dr Apwee Ting I’ve just returned from the 15th Fiji National Conference held at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education on Kungarakany and Awarai country in Batchelor, 98km south of Darwin. Over the four days, I could clearly feel how much the Fijian […]
The life of the Tongan National ConferenceWritten by Rev Dr ‘Isileli Jason Kioa The Tongan National Conference was the first of the 12 national conferences of the Uniting Church to be formed in June 1987, just two years after the declaration of the Uniting Church by the meeting of the Assembly in 1985 as a […]
Intercultural: where our journey beginsIn our Assembly Strategic Plan we identify four key pillars that drive our work and are a primary focus as we seek to move boldly and confidently into the future. One of these pillars is Intercultural, encapsulating how we seek to live as a community that transcends cultural and other barriers, and in which […]
Living as an Intercultural ChurchAn Intercultural church is a church that accepts, supports and celebrates each cultural group. It intentionally encourages all cultural groups to engage in intercultural relationships and share in leadership, mission and ministry.An Intercultural church builds on the idea that Australian society and the Church’s membership are multicultural, and it calls on […]
This month the Assembly Resourcing Unit has led a series of online conversations about the intercultural life and ministry of the Uniting Church.In the final Let’s Yarn conversation, Rev Dr Paul Goh will share his research on Intercultural communities within the Synod of South Australia.Mapping Intercultural Neighbourhoods in SA: CALD and Intercultural Ministries Survey 2020-2021This […]
Growing together as an Intercultural ChurchIn this final piece reflecting on what it means to live our life as an Intercultural Church, Rev Charissa Suli speaks about some of the work of the Assembly Resourcing Unit in equipping the Church to live its life cross culturally.By Rev Charissa Suli, National Consultant, Assembly Resourcing Unit The […]
Our journey as a multicultural church Written by Assembly National Consultant, Rev Dr Apwee TingThe Uniting Church statement, ‘A Church for all God’s People’, is founded on the belief that all are created in God’s image and that together we share a common unity. The basis for our unity is not colour, language, ethnicity or […]