Local Church News

WHETHER it was prep students on the play gym or P-Plate drivers on the road, Unity College students made it clear that bullying will not be tolerated during their annual Break Down Bully Week. The week-long event was held during the first week of May with all students at the Caloundra based Uniting/Catholic school participating. One of the highlights of ...

KAIROS Uniting Church, Earnshaw Road congregation, in Brisbane's north had cause for double celebration on Sunday 13 May. Not only was it Mother's Day but it was also Rotuma Day, the anniversary of the island's cession from the United Kingdom in 1881 and joining Fiji. Minister Rev Sandra Jebb said the multicultural congregation included a number of people from the ...

THE Downs Presbytery marked the retirement of their long standing secretary, Mrs Jean Dodd, in April. Wilma Proudlock of Pittsworth Uniting Church said there were probably few members of Presbytery who could remember a time when Mrs Dodd wasn’t Secretary of Presbytery. "We acknowledge the enormous contribution Jean has made to the life of the Presbytery," she said. "Not only ...

MOTHERS were spoilt at St Mark’s Uniting Church in Mt Gravatt Brisbane’s south with an early Mother’s Day gift, a high tea. Sixty-two people attended the two sittings on Saturday 12 May and were treated to small delicacies made with care and love. Congregation member Penny Allen said the event was an extension of a smaller high tea held last ...

THE Mt Mee Community Church was spilling over on Sunday 20 May as people celebrated an ecumenical landmark. Members of the church have produced a Covenant recognising that Mt Mee is a single congregation, composed of adherents of different traditions. Pastoral care is given jointly by Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran and Uniting Church ministers. Moderator, Rev Kaye Ronalds, and Moreton Rivers Presbytery Minister, Rev Andrew Gunton, joined their counterparts from the Anglican, Catholic and Lutheran churches, ...

FOR about three years the Dalby Soup Kitchen has been warming the hearts and stomachs of those in need of a feed. Run by the Lutheran Church with assistance from the other Dalby churches, this ministry is a great example of local churches working together. Dalby Uniting Church member, Glenda Bundy, said the Soup Kitchen isn’t just good for those ...

LONG-TERM Blackwater resident Beth Baker received the award of Blackwater and Duaringa Area Citizen of the Year on Australia Day. She shared the honour of a special ceremony with other winners including Randolph Powder, who received the Cultural Award. Central Highlands Regional Council Community Development Officer, Annette Bush, said Ms Baker had lived in the area for around 40 years ...

TOWNSVILLE Central City Mission was the setting for a service and luncheon on 5 February to honour Mrs Vivienne Robson (aka Viv, Mrs Rob, Mrs Robbie, Grandma). After over 30 years and at the wonderful age of 91, she has decided to relinquish the position of coordinator of the Missions Committee at the Mission. Mrs Robson will still be a ...

OVER 50 volunteers made sure that people were not left alone on Christmas Day on the Gold Coast. The Never Alone Friendship Centre, an outreach of the Burleigh Heads Uniting Church, provided lunch for 70 people from the community who would otherwise have spent a very lonely Christmas Day. Speaking to Journey, cofounder and chairman of the Centre Neville Free ...

SINGING and learning songs can make all the difference in how you deal with the events that impact every day life. With that in mind Bribie Island Uniting Church’s Margaret Grove suggested the idea of creating a children’s choir on Bribie Island. "We give children the script for life – laying the foundations for the strongest things to carry them ...