NAIDOC Week 2022During NAIDOC Week, the Uniting Church joins with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) in celebrating Australia’s First Peoples and their place at the heart of our nation and our church. This year’s theme is Get Up! Stand up! Show Up! Thanks to Palawa women Alison Overeem and Grace Williams from Leprena […]
Celebrating 45 years of the Uniting ChurchToday we celebrate the 45th birthday of the Uniting Church in Australia! UCA President Rev Sharon Hollis has shared the video below for the anniversary, featuring members of the 16th Assembly sharing what they love about the Uniting Church. We have also delved into our archives, and uncovered a […]
This week is Refugee Week – an opportunity to honour the strength and resilience of refugees and celebrate the many gifts and rich contributions they make to our communities. This year’s theme is healing – recognising a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hit reset on how we behave towards one another”. The Uniting Church in Australia has […]
“A community who cares for each other”In a bold but deeply considered move, members of Lane Cove Uniting Church, located on the North Shore of Sydney, decided to sell their Church building and ‘give back’ to their wider community with the proceeds. From this decision, a new missional direction emerged – Lane Cove Community Chaplaincy. […]
A prayer for Refugee WeekThis Sunday begins Refugee Week (19-25 June), a celebration of the many positive contributions refugees make to the Australian community. Thanks to Abi Benham-Bannon, a panel member of the Assembly’s Working for Justice Circle for sharing this prayer to use in your worship across the week. This prayer leads us […]
Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022″The Uniting Church … acknowledges with thanksgiving that the one Spirit has endowed the members of Christ’s Church with a diversity of gifts, and that there is no gift without its corresponding service: all ministries have a part in the ministry of Christ.” Uniting Church Basis of Union, paragraph 13 A lay […]
Walking Together begins in the heartWalking together as First and Second Peoples is a journey that is begins with the heart – it is not only seen, but lived and felt. This began the learnings in an online discussion hosted by the Panel of the Assembly’s Walking Together as First and Second Peoples Circle on […]
Courage and innovation in TaturaIn the large and growing regional town of Tatura in North East Victoria, the congregation of Tatura Uniting Church radically reshaped its life when it decided to sell its 60-year-old building complex and move into an unfamiliar space. With a church building no longer ‘fit for purpose’ and determined to steward […]
Prayer For North KoreaCrosses made from barbed wire from the demilitarized zone that divides North Korea and South Korea (Credit: Asia Economy, cm.asiae.co.kr)Second-generation Korean migrant and young UCA leader Joy Han and Rev Seung Jae Yeon, Chairperson for the Korean National Conference, have written Prayers of the People, one in English and one in Korean, asking […]
A tribute to Neryl McCallum Originally published in the June/July edition of New Times, Synod of South Australia written by Dr Deidre Palmer, Ex-President, Uniting Church in Australia Assembly Neryl McCallum lived a remarkable life and made a life-giving difference to many of us, and to the life and mission of the Uniting Church. She […]