The Uniting Church in Queensland comes from a great tradition of giving to help the poor. The prophet Agabus didn’t have the Bureau of Meteorology to help forecast a famine in Palestine when he warned the early church leaders in Antioch. The area around Jerusalem was hit hard in 46 AD and the church responded generously to an appeal by Paul, ...

Liturgy Training Publication USA (Archdiocese of Chicago), 2010 RRP $24.95 Reviewed by Trish Milne, chaplain at St Stephen’s Hospital Maryborough and Hervey Bay and member of Maryborough Uniting Church. THIS RESOURCE book has been compiled to “help those in parishes, schools, institutions, religious communities and other Catholic faith communities understand the liturgy and how the liturgy transforms our lives.” As ...

The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemns the vicious attack on innocent worshippers in the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt when a bomb was detonated at the conclusion of the celebration of a New Year’s midnight mass. As a result, at least 21 people have been killed and more than 80 injured. The WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse ...

This Friday 7th January 2011 at 1pm, Australian Church leaders from all Christian denominations and notable dignitaries will gather at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne at an Ecumenical Prayer Service for the victims of Egypt’s New Year’s Eve church bombings which took place in the Northern City of Alexandria and claimed 23 lives and wounded over 80 Coptic Christians. His ...

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 ...

GEEBUNG UNITING Church will celebrate 50 years on 20 February with a service and lunch. Now part of the Kairos Uniting Church cluster in northern Brisbane, an old farm house was the setting for the first worship service in February 1961. Established as a Presbyterian Church, the farm house was the worship centre until May 1963, when the first permanent ...

Tom Kendzia, 2009, RRP $29.95 Reviewed by Sandra Jebb, minister at Kairos Uniting Church, an Australian who was born in Ireland.IF YOU would like to add a Celtic flavour to brighten up your Christmas festivities this year then A Celtic Christmas by Tom Kendzia is a must! This instrumental collection features some of Ireland’s best traditional musicians with lively new ...

JASMIN COX is a bright 11-year old girl with a mop of ginger hair, a big smile and a hug for anyone who needs it, whether they know it or not. She also has an intellectual impairment and multiple symptoms of syndromes that mean her diagnosis doesn't fit neatly into any box. But I get the feeling Jasmin (Jas) wouldn't ...

THE ANGLICAN Diocese of Brisbane has announced that two leading co-educational schools in Brisbane’s south-west corridor, currently administered by the Diocese but previously joint Anglican and Uniting Church schools, are to be renamed to reinforce their Anglican heritage. Archbishop Phillip Aspinall said Forest Lake College and The Springfield College would be renamed as St John’s Anglican College and The Springfield ...

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 ...