OVER TWO hundred Christians gathered in Canberra from 17-20 September to share their concern for the poor with the nation’s political leaders. The annual Voices for Justice gathering, an initiative of Micah Challenge Australia, saw Christians from all over the country speaking directly to politicians about achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Two Queensland Uniting Church members present were Andrew ...

After twenty years of travelling across the Asia-Pacific region spreading seeds of peace, the founder of Young Ambassadors for Peace (YAP), Uniting Church Peacemaker, Joy Balazo had indicated an intention to retire. Joy has decided it’s time to ‘dirty her hands’ in the soil of her home island of Mindanao in the Philippines. On this International Day of Peace National ...

THE MOST insidious aspect of prolonged conflict is the total destruction of the lives of survivors. Once the bullets stop ringing and the staccato of missiles is silenced, the survivors have to try to rebuild their lives from the rubble. Teachers who once dreamt of mentoring future leaders have no classrooms in which to impart knowledge; doctors do not have ...

AFTER FIVE days, members of the 29th Synod of the Uniting Church in Queensland closed the meeting in worship on Wednesday 12 October, 2011, at Alexandra Park Conference Centre on the Sunshine Coast. More than 340 voting members from all over the Church in Queensland joined visitors, staff and volunteers to celebrate the work of God through the Church and ...

The Uniting Church in Australia has expressed deep concern for the Pacific nation of Tuvalu as it faces a devastating drought. Rev Tafue Molu Lusama the General Secretary of Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu (EKT – the Christian Church of Tuvalu) wrote advising that on Wednesday the 28th September the Tuvalu government declared Tuvalu to be in a state of emergency due ...

Today The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stood outside Tecoma Uniting Church in Melbourne to announce the Australian Government’s plans to support Australian NGO’s, including the Relief and Development Unit of UnitingWorld, in their response to the Horn of Africa crisis. The Australian Government’s Dollar-for-Dollar initiative will match each dollar donated to appeals run by AusAID-accredited ...

Not content to confine its muscle to the field it knows best, the Fiji military has moved in on the Methodist Church, attempting to influence Church leadership decisions and interfering in the life of the Church. A recent showdown over the Methodist Church Annual Conference has ended with the Military Government cancelling the Conference for the third year in a ...

STUDENTS AND staff from Caloundra’s Unity College took an opportunity to live Gospel values in an unusual circumstance in the July school holidays. From a society that promotes careers, possessions, and personal development, eight teenagers and three leaders were welcomed in Tonga to live in village homes where community has priority. While the cultural experiences were spectacular and educational, the ...

THIS YEAR, Uniting Church Adult Fellowships (UCAF) all over Queensland are raising money for a UnitingWorld supported livelihood project of the United Church of Solomon Islands. The Women’s Leadership and Livelihood project emerged in consultations by the Assembly United Church Women’s Fellowship (AUCWF) with women from the Church’s four regions of the Solomon Islands. The objectives of the project are ...

UNITINGWORLD IS one of many nonprofi t organisations exploring the new world of Social Fundraising. Also known as Peer to Peer fundraising, this involves individuals or teams running or walking for a cause and enlisting their social media friends to support them. UnitingWorld Associate Director (Pacific) Bruce Mullan said the trend is now being used in Queensland for the Bridge ...