Local Church News

WARWICK Churches Together (WCT) is now in its second year and continues to hold regular get togethers. On Sunday night, Williams Hall, next to the Warwick Uniting Church, was the venue for the mid-winter Christmas activity. Gifts were donated by those present and some people who could not be there to be distributed to needy children, aged two to 14, ...

DURING the past 90 years members of the local community have seen young men walking along Albion Street on the weekly pass to head down town in their grey hat, long grey socks and blazer. Ninety years to the day, Scots College opened in front of an informal gathering of members of the committee, clergymen, parents and the foundation, students ...

To keep up to date with all the happenings at the 12th Assembly meeting in Sydney this week, visit www.assembly2009.uca.org.au.      

Two Queensland Uniting Church members were awarded Orders of Australia medals yesterday as part of the Queen’s Birthday celebrations. Burleigh Waters resident Bettye Dare was awarded an Order of Australia medal for her service to the community as an organist with the Burleigh Heads Uniting Church. Mr James Watt, also from the Sunshine Coast, was awarded an Order of Australia ...

INDOOROOPILLY UNITING Church played host for two events on 28 April celebrating the Queensland launch of UnitingWorld, formerly Uniting International Mission. People interested in the church’s global partnerships gathered to celebrate the mission of God and hear how to live out the Basis of Union’s call to be a church which transcends cultural, economic, and racial boundaries. UnitingWorld National Director ...

Meet the new Journey journalist I HAVE always marvelled at how powerful the media is whenever the phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword” comes to mind. Although the pen has been somewhat replaced by the keyboard, the concept remains. Writing is a vocation I am passionate about. As a journalist working in Papua New Guinea for 10 years, ...

REV DR MARIAN Zaunbrecher, the newly-appointed Associate General Secretary of the Queensland Synod has been a minister of the Uniting Church since 1987, serving in urban and regional areas of Victoria and New South Wales. A teacher by profession, Dr Zaunbrecher has taught as a primary teacher, a multicultural teacher, a teacher for adult women in a technical college and ...

People from all over the country gather at the triennial Assembly to decide the future life of the church. Among them will be some of the most energetic and vibrant members of the church: our young people. Coordinated by the host synod, it’s something of a tradition for a Youthful Members Orientation to be held prior to Assembly to ensure ...

Born in London in 1902, Jean Pidgeon passed away in May and, in her 107th year, was perhaps the oldest member of the Uniting Church in Australia. Mrs Pidgeon and her parents moved to Dalveen in 1917, and immediately became involved in the Thulimbah Presbyterian church. Later she became involved in the Presbyterian church (later the Uniting Church) at Dalveen, ...

 Marguerite Chapman – a gracious woman of God I am sure that many of you will be aware that Marguerite Chapman died last Saturday (9th May). Her life and her faith were celebrated at a funeral service in Ayr on Tuesday. Marguerite was a gracious Christian woman whose faith and life touched many people both in her home towns of ...