This year, UnitingWorld turns its focus towards gender equality and addressing violence against women in the Pacific Island region. Ashley Goetze spoke with Bronwyn Fraser from UnitingWorld. A self-described “link and chain” between the Uniting Church in Australia and Pacific Island church partners, last June UnitingWorld facilitated a workshop in Fiji that involved women representatives from the four Pacific nations of Kiribati, Solomon Islands, ...

The Year of Discipleship is part of the Uniting Church in Queensland's Vision 2020, focusing on the call to form active and accountable disciples. Catholic chaplain Gary Stone elaborates on his Norman and Mary Miller address to the 30th Synod. I was delighted to be able to come and share my story during the 2013 Queensland Synod. I was so ...

The view from a back deck can be inspirational, as Aitkenvale Uniting Church Deck Dwellers convener Scott Heron and minister Mark Dewar told Dianne Jensen. When Aitkenvale Uniting Church members felt called to connect with a Christian congregation overseas, they sat out on a back deck and talked and prayed about it. The new group, the Deck Dwellers, was formed ...

UnitingCare Health Director of Mission, Helen Dick, tells of the fruitful partnership with Helena Goldie Hospital, Munda, and the celebration of their first nursing graduates. "They trust us now because we keep coming back," commented Wendy Zernike on the continuing visits of UnitingCare Health teams to the Solomon Islands. In her role as Director of the Clinical School at the ...

The Year of Discipleship is part of the Uniting Church in Queensland's Vision 2020, focusing on the call to form active and accountable disciples of all ages. Callide Valley's Pastor Donna Muston writes. Earlier this year, filled with a large measure of trepidation and excitement, I found myself in a group of twelve visitors to northern India. Organised by the ...

If you've grown up around churches or with some kind of spiritual heritage, you're probably uncomfortable with the idea of wanting more. It sounds greedy—and who wants that when you're trying to walk in the footsteps of the one who recommended giving away even the shirt from your own back? Is it ever okay to want more? Yes, it is. ...

The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Rev Professor Andrew Dutney has responded to the 2013 Federal Budget by urging politicians and policymakers from all sides to do more for the most vulnerable people at home and abroad. "I warmly welcome the decision to fully fund DisabilityCare Australia and the support it will extend to people of disability, their ...

Dianne Jensen reports on a central Queensland congregation that is shining a light on effective home-grown mission. The congregation at Proserpine Whitsunday Uniting Church are firm believers that when local folk get inspired, they can undertake mission projects which will transform themselves, their local community, and the world. This is the home of Compassion candles and Chappy sticks (lip balm), ...

Advocating for global justice starts with one person, one family and one community, as secondary students discovered at the One World, WonTok Poverty and Development Youth Conference. Dianne Jensen reports. "On no, my crops died!" "We'll have to sell something!" Students gathered around the laptop at the One World, WonTok Poverty and Development Youth Conference had just realised that pests, ...

As the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, Journey reports on a pre-election campaign by Christians to highlight the issue of Australian development aid. UnitingWorld has joined Make Poverty History and Micah Challenge in a national campaign to mobilise the Australian community in the run up to the federal election on 14 September. The Movement to End ...