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ON 13 May Blue Care Avalon Aged Care Facility in Emerald celebrated Mother’s Day by opening their new café, Café 126. Emerald / Fernlees Uniting Church minister, Rev Suzy Sitton, said Café 126 is a place where all who visit can share a cuppa and companionship. “The new café is a sign of hope for the Emerald community and a ...

REV Craig Mischewski feelsright at home in his new post as the Frontier Services’ Flinders Patrol Minister. The 50-year-old minister was built for work in the bush. “I’m hard wired for the west,” Mr Mischewski said ahead of his induction at St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Hughenden on 9 May. “The more I can see of the horizon, the happier ...

BLUE Care has welcomed Rev Heather den Houting as the new Director of Mission. Formerly the minister with Kenmore Uniting Church in Brisbane’s west, Ms den Houting said the transition to Blue Care has been both challenging and inspiring. “Blue Care is a huge organisation with many facets so becoming familiar with how it works and all comes together has been ...

OZHARVEST'S newest branch, operating out of Brisbane, has had an inspiring first six months. The food rescue program picks up unwanted excess food from supermarkets, restaurants and other food outlets and delivers them the same day to charities feeding people in need.< OzHarvest Brisbane is currently averaging 1800 kilograms of food per week – feeding around 200 people per day ...

BLUE Care officially launched a new multicultural service at Springwood Community Care in March. The service aims to assist people with cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds in accessing aged care in the Logan, Ipswich, Gold Coast and Tweed areas. Blue Care Multicultural Service Manager, Mercedes Sepulveda, said they are very excited to launch the vital service in Queensland’s most culturally ...

THE Little Marchant’s Child Care Centre has arrived in a very special and unique environment – an aged-care community. Little Marchant’s was named after the historic Marchant cottages in which it is housed and is a child care service looking after just 20 children per day. The Centre can be found within Wesley Mission Brisbane’s Wheller Gardens, the first aged-care ...

IN 2011, Heiser Gallery founderand director Bruce Heiser selected six artists from Wesley Mission Brisbane’s Art From The Margins program to participate in a mentoring program. Many months of dreaming, creating and hard work later, the mentorship has culminated in the Heiser Gallery Emerging Artists Exhibition. According to Mr Heiser, there was no formal structure in the mentoring program, giving ...

THE Vera Wade Gallery at St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Brisbane City has had an exciting line up of exhibitions in the first half of this year. In February, Rev Dr Geraldine Wheeler exhibited her series of thoughtful gouache paintings on black Stonehenge paper entitled Biblical Women. In her work, she invites the viewer to enter the worlds of influential ...

COCKRAM Construction will build Blue Care’s new Azure Blue Lifestyle Community at Carina after winning a soughtafter tender. Moderator, Rev Kaye Ronalds, was at the turning of the sod ceremony in March. Blue Care executive director Robyn Batten said Azure Blue Carina will comprise a care precinct and a luxury retirement living precinct where residents’ amenities include a swimming pool, ...

THE Albert Street Uniting Church congregation in Brisbane will engage in 50 Days of Prayer to coincide with the 50 days of the Easter season. Beginning on 8 April, Superintendent Minister, Rev Lyn Burden, said the initiative strives to create relationships between the congregation and the staff , volunteers and individuals involved with Wesley Mission Brisbane programs and services. “I like ...