IN AUGUST, 14 people from St Andrew’s Uniting Church on Thursday Island visited Saibai Island, in the Top Western Group of islands in the Torres Strait, for a religious program organised by Lima Uku, the wife of Pastor Lindsey Uku of Sigabarduru United Church in Papua New Guinea. After much preparation and paperwork, including writing to the Chairman of Saibai ...

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 second day of business at the 29th Synod meeting of the Uniting Church in Queensland (Sunday 9 October) closed with a celebration of ministries. Since the 28th Synod meeting, in 2008, nine ministers retired, 14 passed away, 11 were ordained, and one youth worker was commissioned. Minutes of Appreciation were given to retirees Rev David Bernard, Rev Dr Robert ...

The 29th Synod meeting of The Uniting Church in Queensland began on Friday 7 October 2011 with a celebration service and the induction of new Moderator, Rev Kaye Ronalds, at Unity College in Caloundra. Around 700 hundred people gathered with songs of praise in a celebration of the diversity of the Church in Queensland and to induct Queensland’s first female ...

THE FRESH Expressions movement is creating a buzz of excitement in the Uniting Church around new kinds of mission and outreach. In essence, the movement isn’t doing anything new at all. It is almost taking mission and outreach and the activity of ‘church’ back to its fundamental roots: being Christ in the community. In 2005 the Church of England established ...

HISTORY BOOKS are full of inspired people who have shaped our world. Explorers, inventors, scientists, artists, theologians and so many others have spent countless hours growing the seeds of ideas into tangible realities. Even today the way we communicate, socialise, even the food we eat is evolving. This is not necessarily always a good thing, but one thing is for ...

This year Journey explores questions from the pews, namely from a (fictitious) person exploring faith and the Uniting Church. This month Nova B Lever asks: What don’t you believe? WHAT DO you get when you combine Yusuf Islam, progressive Uniting Church members, an altar call and the school chaplaincy program? It started with a brilliant documentary about singer-songwriter Cat Stevens ...

ON 31 JULY the Wellers Hill – Tarragindi congregation marked 10 years since the formation of a very successful and popular children’s ministry. The JAFFA (Jesus A Friend For All) Club began as a way to reconnect with young people who had been part of the annual holiday club run by the church. Stephanie Kennedy, who has been there since ...

WE, IN THE Western World, live in a time and space that has been moulded by the concept of modernity and a scientific world view. But do we realise when we read Scripture that the places we have come from – our cultural heritage, church tradition, the understanding of the world that we have been schooled in, our family etc ...

ON 31 JULY South Rockhampton Uniting Church hosted Uniting Church President, Rev Alistair Macrae, as he spent the weekend in Rockhampton, speaking at a Saturday night dinner and again during worship on Sunday. Minister, Rev Jennifer Roberts, said Mr Macrae’s visit caused great excitement for the congregation. “As I spoke with people after Alistair’s visit it became clear that a ...