By Rebecca Riggs, Synod Communications Manager As I think about all the wonderful threads of story shared at the 37th Synod, I have been asking myself: What brings a sense of renewal in me? What sparks my faith for a new season? This year has not always been a massively easy or simple time  – I wonder if anyone else ...

By Sam McDonell – UnitingCare – Connect 100 So often we begin prayer in a mode of “Listen Lord, your servant is speaking”. Don’t get me wrong, of course we are meant to pour out our prayers – praises, confessions, laments, requests, hopes and more. Scripture clearly encourages persistent, tenacious prayer that keeps knocking, keeps asking and keeps believing in ...

In this International Women’s Day reflection, Rev Kath Behan looks at a Uniting Church initiative designed to improve our leadership diversity. The theme for International Women’s Day 2020 is #EachforEqual, meaning “an equal world is an enabled world”. It emphasises that ultimately the responsibility rests on all of us, women and men together, to make sure that we are doing all ...

Queensland Synod General Secretary Rev Heather den Houting provides an update on the Project Plenty visioning exercise. “If you think the institutional church will look like this in five years’ time, then you haven’t been paying attention.” This is one of my mantras in 2020, and a sentiment that is being reflected in the What we heard report emerging from ...

The Queensland Synod Have A Go mission coaching pilot began in July 2019. Dianne Jensen checks in for an update on how coaching is helping turn ideas into reality. This issue we focus on two projects at Redcliffe Uniting Church. You have this great idea … but what comes next? Enter the Have A Go mission coaching pilot, an initiative ...

General Secretary of the Queensland Synod Rev Heather den Houting reflects on the recently released Mission Impact Report and the challenges and opportunities facing the Synod office and the wider church. Our church is a broad and complex organisation seeking to live out its call in a time of change. The Mission Impact Report, released in October, highlights the work ...

Rev Heather den Houting reflects on the listening phase of the Project Plenty discernment process. Over the past six months, more than 600 people from across the life of the church have attended consultation and engagement sessions throughout Queensland. We have heard that people care deeply about the Uniting Church and want to see it prosper into the future. That ...

Trinity College Queensland’s latest educational resource Trinity on Tap has opened up an accessible world of theology for the whole church and has given people a new way of learning about the Bible without stepping foot in a lecture room. Journey reports. Stuck in early morning gridlock and keen to make the most of your time as you wait for ...

The Have A Go mission coaching pilot is up and running in Queensland Synod, and Director of Mission Engagement Rev Kath Behan is excited by the enthusiasm for new mission from the grassroots of the church. Dianne Jensen reports. “Hi Kath, I’ve got an idea …” Every email to Director of Mission Engagement Rev Kath Behan expressing interest in the ...

Lord, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. (NASB Psalm 39:4) Every year there are issues that create dissention in us as a nation. This year they seem to be coming fast and plenty with the election and more recently religious freedom with the Israel Folau ...