Dianne Jensen reports on how the Glebe Road Uniting Church congregation in Ipswich is helping Queenslanders to keep a roof over their heads. Whether you are a dab hand with a paint brush or more at home with gardening gloves, Habitat for Humanity can use your skills. The Glebe Road congregation has become the hub of the Ipswich chapter of ...

A partnership between two churches in Ipswich and East Timor is helping change lives in both places. Mardi Lumsden reports. Glebe Road Uniting Church in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, has a long partnership with East Timor. When members, including Noela and Noel Rothery, experienced Timor for themselves through a UnitingWorld InSolidarity trip in 2010 they understood how a partnership could ...

THERE ARE many courageous people in this world whose stories are inspiring. On a personal level I have been inspired by the person who was my supervisor during the field year of ministry training, Rev Dr Norma Spear (although she was still working on her doctorate in those days). Norma was the minister of the Glebe Road Uniting Church congregation, ...

THERE MAY be few people with the title Youth Worker in the Queensland Synod these days but National Faith Development Consultant for Youth and Young Adults, Tom Kerr, said that that doesn’t mean there are fewer people doing the job. Many youth workers have transitioned to being ministers, deacons, or pastors and Mr Kerr suggested it was time for people ...

HUNDREDS of Ipswich families got into the Christmas spirit at Carols in the Park on the weekend despite the evening rain. The skies opened just as the carolling began but Reverend Peter Hobson said the Glebe Road Uniting Church event on Saturday was still great fun. “I think it was the first time it’s rained since we’ve done the carols ...

The Watoto Children’s Choir performed at churches all over Queensland in June. The choir performs to present Watoto’s vision and to give audiences the opportunity to respond to Africa’s HIV/AIDS and war crisis. Photo by Sarah Rothery Photo : Members of the Watoto Children’s Choir at Glebe Road Uniting Church

Six hundred church and civic representatives farewelled Bevan Hunter Favelle at an inspiring celebration of his life at Glebe Road Uniting Church in Ipswich. Uniting Church ministers and pastors from other denominations formed a guard of honour as the casket was taken from the Church to the Fellowship Hall. Born in Sydney, Bevan graduated from University with a degree in ...

Synod Standing Committee update—October 2021  Below is a brief summary of the Synod Standing Committee (SSC) meeting—held on Thursday7 October 2021—to inform the wider Queensland Synod community of the discussions, deliberations and decisions arising from that meeting. This meeting was held at Wesley House in the Brisbane CBD. Shared life flourishing communities The SSC received a presentation from members of ...

UnitingWorld’s Cath Taylor reflects on expectations and transformations over the Christmas period and how the journey towards positive change is life-long, relational and hard won. There’s an assumption about “poor people” that gets splashed around this time of year, when many of us are celebrating and feeling a tad guilty about it. It shows up in the face of the ...

Nearly 70 young people from the Uniting Church congregations of Glebe Road, Oxley, Centenary, Karana Downs, Forest Lake and Indooroopilly were camped at Easterfest this year and all were caught up in the chaos of the Saturday night flooding. Indooroopilly youth minister, Rev Josie Nottle, was responsible for 40 young people when the plans for the weekend changed due to ...