Members of the Uniting Church are urged to join with other Christian churches in a week of prayer organised by the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA). "We invite all of our members to join our brothers and sisters from other churches to celebrate the unity that is ours in Christ," said the President of the Uniting Church Assembly ...

The Uniting Church today put its money where its mouth is on climate change. A day after calling on the New South Wales Government to act to protect farming land, water resources and conservation areas from mining, the church's Synod of New South Wales and the ACT has determined as a matter of policy that it should divest from corporations ...

Burleigh Heads Uniting Church is known locally as 'the church on the hill' and is situated on the outskirts of the busy Gold Coast region. Tara Burton spoke to co-founder of the Burleigh Heads Never Alone Friendship Centre, Neville Free. Who makes up your congregation? Burleigh Heads Uniting Church is a worshipping and caring congregation of 260 members. It is ...

Uniting Church Army chaplain John Saunders was out jogging at Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), en route to Afghanistan, when he heard an imam singing the call to prayer. The sun had not yet come up over the desert horizon when I heard the call. It was then that a plan dropped into my head ...

Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 RRP $39.95 By Karyl Davison. This book reminds us that the contours of Christianity around the world are complex and enormously diverse. Christians are members of thousands of different churches, speak hundreds if not thousands of different languages and are present in almost every country across the globe. Douglas Jacobsen, Professor of Church History and Theology at Messiah ...

Uniting Church justice staff from across Australia have today joined dozens of organisations and thousands of people in calling for work rights for asylum seekers living in the community. Senior Uniting Church spokespeople said they are proud to support the Right to Work campaign. "The right to work is a fundamental human right for all – especially the most vulnerable. ...

Mt Louisa House of Praise is located in Townsville, North Queensland. The congregation has strong links with local churches and engages with the community through a range of outreach ministries. Tara Burton spoke to minister Anne Harley. How are you enriching your community? We play a significant role in Stable on the Strand, a Christmas event put on by the ...

It's part of our church traditions, but will it be part of our future? Journey reports on songwrite, the first national gathering of worship songwriters in the life of the Uniting Church. Thirty songwriters, musicians, mentors and coaches from across Australia came together for songwrite at Kippax Uniting Church, Canberra over the weekend of 15 – 17 February. They gathered ...

The morning of Australia Day saw the people of North Burnett enjoying gentle soaking rain. By evening it was constant, heavy rain with the rivers and streams becoming a destructive force which was totally unexpected. Sunday morning worship services in Mundubbera and Gayndah were cancelled and it was "all hands on deck" to evacuate over 100 homes and businesses in ...

Our congregation consists of three worship centres; South Rockhampton Uniting Church, and Bushley Uniting Church and Mount Morgan Uniting Church (both out of town). Bushley is completely cut off from Rockhampton due to the Neerkol Bridge receiving extensive damage in the flash flooding. The congregation will likely not gather for worship for several weeks until the bridge is repaired. Mt ...