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Covenanting Covenant and Preamble A presentation from the 2024 UAICC National Conference on the Covenant and Preamble by Rev Dr Chris Budden. Building partnerships Building Partnerships is a guide to Covenant Renewal with First Nations Peoples throughout the UCA. This study and action guide is a treasure trove of biblical, theological and practical steps to live […]

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Covenanting Instruments In 1994 the UCA entered into a formal binding Covenant with the UAICC. The words of the statements together with the painting form the ‘covenant instruments’. Covenanting Statement Covenanting Painting Preamble Preamble to the UCA Constitution, Assembly, 2009 “The Church celebrates this Covenantal relationship as a foretaste of that coming reconciliation and renewal […]

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Ecumenism

Ecumenical engagement in the UCAThe Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) in its founding document The Basis of Union, declares its commitment to ecumenism (paragraph 2). The UCA believes Christians in Australia are called to bear witness to a unity of faith and life in Christ which transcends cultural and economic, national and racial boundaries. In […]

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Living the Covenant Locally Living the Covenant Locally is a grass roots movement, made up of congregations, faith communities, schools and agencies, who are growing in understanding, encouraging others, connecting with UAICC and/or other First Nations Peoples locally and who then are equipped to take action, walking together as First and Second Peoples, in binding […]

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Let’s Yarn About Our Intercultural Church

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 […]

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