Local Church News

THE 2011 annual Relay For Life was held on 2–3 September this year and, as usual, the Maryborough community rallied around the event. The 2nd Maryborough Girls’ Brigade Company, which meets at Maryborough Uniting Church, has entered a team in the Relay for the past three years and this year raised $4250 for the Queensland Cancer Council. Wide Bay Divisional ...

ON SUNDAY 28 August Brisbane North Region Guides ran their annual service and parade, this year at Wavell Heights Uniting Church with Pastor Terry Stanyer in attendance. Mr Stanyer said it was a wonderful afternoon. “I felt the community spirit with the girls, their families and friends … displaying how the Church outreaches to all the community,” he said. The ...

THE COOROY Uniting Church (formerly Methodist), in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, will celebrate 100 years of ministry and service to the community in January 2012. The original church building still stands on the site where it is used today as a hall. Over the course of 100 years this small church has provided comfort and support to thousands of rural ...

ST PAUL’S Uniting Soccer Club in Brisbane was awarded a State Government grant in October of over $140 000 to install lights at their home ground. Club President, David Valentine, said it was the culmination of five years of dreaming and several years of hard work. The club is an outreach program of Broadwater Road and St Marks Uniting Churches ...

ON THURSDAY 3 November the 96five fm (Family Radio) Family Show went on a school excursion to The Gap State School in Brisbane’s west. The team broadcast live from a free breakfast for the school community with members of The Gap Uniting Church feeding the hungry students, staff and parents. 96five Community Partnership Manager, Billy Diehm, said the excursions are ...

ON 31 JULY the Wellers Hill – Tarragindi congregation marked 10 years since the formation of a very successful and popular children’s ministry. The JAFFA (Jesus A Friend For All) Club began as a way to reconnect with young people who had been part of the annual holiday club run by the church. Stephanie Kennedy, who has been there since ...

FOR THE past 22 years the Flinders Uniting Church, Peak Crossing, Ladies Fellowship has held a Christmas in July Dinner. Guests from near and far travel to celebrate this special meal and enjoy the friendship of people they may seldom see. Over the years the guest list has reached over 100 people, filling the church hall to capacity. Preparations start ...

CHURCHES AND community service providers joined forces in Mackay to raise awareness of the rising homeless population in the town by hosting the Mackay Sleepout in August. The event coincided with National Homeless Persons’ Week and saw members of the Mackay community, including students, church leaders and even an MP, sleep rough on 2 August. St Paul’s Uniting Church in ...

IN JUNE the small town of Hughenden, 320km south-west of Townsville, became a hive of activity as a Frontier Services work party restored the old Hughenden Uniting Church and hall. Queenslanders Ian and Fay Laurie along with Lindsay and Roslyn Thomson (NSW), Graham Reid, Jim and Julie Rees, and Ian and Joan Cook (VIC) worked tirelessly to support the work ...

ON 31 JULY South Rockhampton Uniting Church hosted Uniting Church President, Rev Alistair Macrae, as he spent the weekend in Rockhampton, speaking at a Saturday night dinner and again during worship on Sunday. Minister, Rev Jennifer Roberts, said Mr Macrae’s visit caused great excitement for the congregation. “As I spoke with people after Alistair’s visit it became clear that a ...