Bernie Scobie, a long-time member of Paradise Point Uniting Church on the Gold Coast, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day 2013 Honours List. The award was made for service to the community through youth and charitable organisations. The new recipient is quick to point out he would never would have received the ...

IN the past 12 months, the Rosewood community has experienced some problems with youth on the streets late at night causing mischief. Realising that the police and justice system were limited in how they could help, the pastors of some of the local churches got together. Individually we couldn't do much, but together we could help resource someone to work ...

KAIROS Uniting Church in Clayfield has started a monthly youth service led by young people on the last Sunday of every month at 10am. "It is awesome to be able to express my faith by singing and playing the guitar", said Brianna, who plays guitar and leads the singing. Paris, who plays piano and acts, and Dominique, who sings, reads ...

Alexandra Park Conference Centre on the Sunshine Coast was inundated in January with more than 200 Uniting Church young people for Summer Madness 2012. Organised by a team of youth leaders and people with a passion for helping young people experience God, the camp was a huge success. Over four days, high school aged youth and their leaders experienced the ...

Young Christians aged 18-30 years are invited to apply for a programme addressing the links between environmental and socio-economic justice which is jointly organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in the context of United Nations climate negotiations in the latter part of 2011. “Youth for Eco-Justice” is a transformational training programme for ...

AFTER GROWING up in a violent family and moving in and out of foster care, at the age of 14 all Tina (not her real name) wanted was a house to live in with her brother and sister. Now, she has her sights set on bigger things. She wants to work with at risk youth. “I’m doing my diploma in ...

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 ...

WHILE MANY young people were planning New Year’s Eve celebrations, more than 900 people from Australia and overseas came together for the biennial National Christian Youth Convention 2011 (ncyc11) on the Gold Coast. Approximately 350 delegates were from Queensland and around 100 delegates were part of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress group. From 29 December to 4 January, ...

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 ...

SOUTH MORETON’S northern cluster of churches held their presbytery young adults service on 31 October at Broadwater Rd Uniting Church in Mansfield, Brisbane. Service co-organiser Matt Gees said, “The night was about encouraging young adults to discover within themselves ways to express and pour out their faith.” Your time is now was the underlying theme of the service which was ...