ATTENDING the Voices for Justice conference was an amazing experience of public action as part of how Jesus calls us to live. Two hundred and eighty Christians from different denominations around Australia came together in Canberra from 15 to 18 September for this national gathering of the Micah Challenge. As Christians, it is up to us to be agents of ...

PAST Director of Pilgrim Learning Community Rev Dr Rob Bos is taking up the challenge in his retirement of training ministers in the Solomon Islands. He has just left for a one month teaching stint at Seghe Theological Seminary in the Solomons, where he will focus on how Scripture can be used to respond to issues affecting Solomon Islanders today. ...

GENDER equality in the Pacific will be bolstered through a regional initiative announced yesterday by the Australian Prime Minister at the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands. The $320 million Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development initiative will support the efforts of Pacific countries to empower women to fully participate in political, economic and social life through a range of ...

ON 22 July 2012, Indooroopilly Uniting Church in Brisbane welcomed leaders of the China Christian Council at the 6pm evening service. This first visit to Australia by the China Christian Council was arranged by UnitingWorld following an invitation by the Uniting Church of Australia past President Rev Alistair Macrae. It comes after the Uniting Church's historic visit to China in ...

AN innovative partnership between UnitingCare Health and UnitingWorld is helping to change an entire nation and its future for the better. The Helena Goldie Hospital in Munda in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands provides one of only three Diploma of Nursing programs available in this tiny nation. Run by the United Church in Solomon Islands, the hospital partners ...

THE ties that bind the Uniting Church in Australia to our Pacific neighbours run deep. The Australian Methodist Church began missionary work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the nineteenth century and in the Solomon Islands in 1902. And through the decades which followed and the challenges posed by conflicts, political change and natural disasters, strong links have been forged ...

TENS of thousands of people have been left homeless and starvation once again threatens the people of North Korea after heavy flooding this month. A United Nations Team visiting the area has reported 88 people killed and is assessing the damage with a view to developing an aid plan. North Korea remains one of the world's most closed societies. Its ...

ON Thursday 19 July members of the 13th Assembly meeting in Adelaide, endorsed Stuart McMillan, the Northern Synod Moderator, as President-elect of the Uniting Church in Australia. Mr McMillan will be President-elect for the next three years before he takes up the presidency in 2015 at the 14th Assembly in Perth, succeeding current President, Rev Prof Andrew Dutney, who took ...

LITTLE people can do big things. The children and youth at Ashmore Uniting Church on the Gold Coast were moved when they heard stories about the effects of poverty. UnitingWorld and members of the congregation spoke to the children in Jam Club about Third World countries. Children's Ministry Coordinator Sharon Moritz said that after hearing the stories the children wanted ...

This Sunday 1 July, a memorial to the 1122 people who died on the Montevideo Maru, including 12 Methodist missionaries and mission personnel from Papua New Guinea, is being dedicated in Canberra. In what remains Australia's greatest maritime tragedy, 1053 Australian Prisoners of War and civilian internees died. On 1 July 1942, the Methodist mission staff were among those killed ...