THE ENORMOUS clean up is well under way in Central and South-East Queensland and the Downs Presbytery after the region experienced the worst flooding in 30 years. Thousands of volunteers have turned out to scrape mud off flood affected properties. Volunteers also fed those cleaning. Long road to recoveryDespite tragedy communities have banded together on the long road to recovery. ...

Monarch Books, 2010 RRP $24.99 Rev Tim Griggs is the Youth and Families Resource Minister for Mary Burnett Presbytery and is passionate about ministry with young people. THE THINK Tank will certainly get youth and their leaders thinking about the 195 topics covered in this book from ecology to using our talents, cyber-bullying to toxic relationships and justice fatigue. This book ...

AITKENVALE UNITING Church celebrated 125 years of church community in Aitkenvale, Townsville, on 23 and 24 October. There was much remembering about good times with memories sparked by photos and memorabilia. On Sunday over 170 worshippers attended a service in the morning, which was followed by a family picnic. Minister Rev Mark Dewar led the congregation in giving thanks for ...

WHEN MARYBOROUGH Uniting Church member MarionTappenden felt a calling to help homeless people she wasn’t sure what to do next. “I had a vision four or five years ago of working with the homeless and it wasn’t until earlier this year that I finally found somewhere to take it,” she said. Hearing that her congregation was looking for new mission ...

ALL OVER the country people are packing their bags and preparing to encounter God on the Gold Coast as they welcome 2011 at the National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC), a biennial Uniting Church event. More than 1000 young people aged 16-25, church leaders and adult volunteers will gather on 29 December for the start of ncyc11. Attendees will be from ...

JOURNEY READERS are probably familiar with the stories from the Acts of the Apostles in which God speaks to those who will listen, telling Philip to go along the Gaza road, Ananias to go to Saul, Cornelius to fetch Simon Peter and Peter not to hesitate but to go to the Centurion’s house. If there is a prophetic gift inhearing ...

WELL KNOWN Cunnamulla Frontier Services Patrol Minister Dennis Cousens was ordained at the Darling Downs Presbytery in Toowoomba on 13 November 2010 as a Minister of the Uniting Church of Australia. Dennis has been involved in the church his whole life, firstly with the Methodist Church and then with the Uniting Church since Union in 1977. He has held a number ...

PREGNANT AND parenting teenagers and young adults and their children will benefit from a Health and Well-being Program thanks to Wesley Mission Brisbane’s (WMB) Young Parent Support Program in Beenleigh, which is receiving funding from the Commonwealth Bank Community Grants program. “We are delighted to receive this additional funding”, said Donna Hanson, Coordinator Young Parents Program. “This program is relevant ...

Rev John Mavor’s newly-released autobiography is not just a compelling account of one minister’s amazing life, it is also a valuable social history of church and community life in Australia and the Pacific over seven decades said ABC religious programs executive producer David Busch. Mr Busch made the comment in launching Mr Mavor’s book, Come On! Come On! A Journey ...

AS PART of the Together on the way, enriching community journey to discern the direction of the Uniting Church in Queensland, Journey invites people to explore the Call through a photographic competition. The competition is open to all people to submit photos that represent one of the five sections of the Call – Uniting in Christ: acting with love; living ...