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ACROSS QUEENSLAND Blue Care is working to assist people with dementia and their carers. Dementia is a group of diseases of the brain that attacks memory, speech, behaviour and emotion, and affects an estimated 250 000 Australians. A new café at Blue Care Coopers Plains Respite Care opened in August to provide an informal way for people with dementia and ...

Not content to confine its muscle to the field it knows best, the Fiji military has moved in on the Methodist Church, attempting to influence Church leadership decisions and interfering in the life of the Church. A recent showdown over the Methodist Church Annual Conference has ended with the Military Government cancelling the Conference for the third year in a ...

THIS YEAR, Uniting Church Adult Fellowships (UCAF) all over Queensland are raising money for a UnitingWorld supported livelihood project of the United Church of Solomon Islands. The Women’s Leadership and Livelihood project emerged in consultations by the Assembly United Church Women’s Fellowship (AUCWF) with women from the Church’s four regions of the Solomon Islands. The objectives of the project are ...

UNITINGWORLD IS one of many nonprofi t organisations exploring the new world of Social Fundraising. Also known as Peer to Peer fundraising, this involves individuals or teams running or walking for a cause and enlisting their social media friends to support them. UnitingWorld Associate Director (Pacific) Bruce Mullan said the trend is now being used in Queensland for the Bridge ...

THREE QUEENSLAND cardiologists were awarded Fellowships by the international Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the most pre-eminent cardiology and electrophysiological organisation in the world, at the Society’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco in May.  Two of the cardiologists are based at Brisbane’s St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Dr Wayne Stafford and Dr John Hayes were awarded Fellowships as a result ...

PEOPLE TRAVELLED from Townsville to be part of the Burdekin Uniting Church’s puppet making workshop over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June, where nine new puppets were ‘born’. Burdekin minister Rev Paul Clark and his wife Rebecca have run these workshops from Mackay to Cairns and have now helped “give birth” to over 70 puppets. “It’s wonderful seeing the ...

ON PENTECOST Sunday, 12 June, Coorparoo Uniting Church celebrated 125 years of serving the community. Coincidentally when the former Methodist Church was opened on 13 June 1886, it was also Pentecost Sunday. The timing of the congregation’s birthday celebrations could not have been more perfect. To mark the anniversary, Coorparoo Uniting Church hosted a special combined service on Sunday 12 ...

TENS OF thousands of Brisbane residents felt the financial impact of the Global Financial Crisis and January’s floods but for the poorest citizens these events have left them in dire need of help to survive. Wesley Mission Brisbane’s (WMB) Emergency Relief services provide food parcels, household items and basic financial help to those most in need. Emergency Relief Services manager, ...

THIS SEPTEMBER Frontier Services will launch its new fundraiser, the Great Outback BBQ. The call is for people across Australia to host their own Great Outback BBQ event to raise money to support the work of Frontier Services in the Outback. The Ladies’ Day Fellowship from The Gap Uniting Church was one of the first groups in Queensland to register ...

Blue Care is encouraging people to “Jump Up and Join In” with healthy ageing activities in their communities, as part of Blue Care Awareness Week 2011 from June 13 – 19. Blue Care Executive Director Robyn Batten said the “Jump Up and Join In” theme aims to encourage people to learn more about options for active, healthy ageing. “With Australia’s ...