Celebrating Australia’s First Peoples #NAIDOC2022As we mark NAIDOC Week 2022, 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. Reflecting on the theme, Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!, UAICC Interim National Chairperson Rev […]
Reflecting on #NAIDOC2022NAIDOC Week 2022 runs this year from 3 – 10 July, a celebration of the culture, histories, resilience and achievements of Australia’s First Peoples. We asked First and Second Peoples across the Uniting Church to reflect on this year’s theme, ‘Get Up. Stand Up. Show Up’. See how they answered below.The theme of […]
Innovation inside a coffee cupA cup of coffee is a personal thing – flat white, black, cappuccino, espresso. No matter how you take it, for many of us having a ‘cuppa’ is one of the small but simple pleasures of our day. But for Barry Schofield, the humble cup of coffee gave birth to […]
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 […]