Members of The Gap Uniting Church are still struggling to come to terms with being at the centre of one of the worst storms ever to hit Brisbane. On 16 November water forced its way through the roof of the new church building causing extensive damage to the church and destroying the kitchen ceiling and floor. The Church’s original hall, ...

“Smuggling Bibles into China places Chinese Christians at risk and now with the new Amity Press operational in Nanjing, smuggling is a waste of resources,” said Bible Society NSW CEO, Daniel Willis. Speaking at the launch of the Society’s appeal for funds to support the Amity Press and help solve the problems of Bible distribution in the country, Daniel said ...

 Abingdon Press, 2007 RRP $22.95 Leading worship and preaching is one thing, but giving a children’s address in worship? Help me please! Enter stage left The Abingdon Children’s Sermon Library, Volume 2. While the entries for sermon ideas and topics are bland in presentation (100% text, black-and-white, Times New Roman font with no pictures!), the content and ideas are helpful. ...

The Uniting Church has continued its involvement in the climate change and emissions trading debates with a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation process on its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper. The Green Paper discusses the Government’s preferred position on a range of issues relating to a national emissions trading scheme, known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The ...

A new book collating key documents relating to the theological position of the Uniting Church was launched during the Synod meeting on 2 November. The book, Theology for Pilgrims, was collated by the Director of the Pilgrim Learning Community Rob Bos and Trinity Theological College Director of Studies in Systematic Theology Rev Dr Geoff Thompson who wrote introductions to each ...

Continuum RRP $22.95 Around the early fourth century AD, a significant number of Christians began to withdraw from ‘the world’ as they had known it. They left their families and towns and moved out into the arid desert regions bordering the Fertile Crescent from Egypt to Syria. Their purpose was to live largely solitary lives, seeking God in the profound ...

Launching the 2009 program, the Lent Event founder and coordinator Sarah White expressed her deep appreciation for the Queensland Synod’s $90,000 in donations to the 2008 appeal. “My heartfelt thanks go out to all the Ministers, Coordinators, church leaders and church members who embraced the Lent Event, it was a truly great effort and gives a great deal of hope ...

Darton, Longman and Todd. RRP $29.95 Letting God be God is part of the “Traditions of Christian Spirituality” series and explores the spirituality of those denominations within Western Christianity whose theological heritage is traceable to the Swiss Reformers of the sixteenth century Reformation. Included in this umbrella are those churches that identify with the Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist traditions (in ...

The twenty-seventh Synod of the Uniting Church Queensland Synod opened with a celebration of worship and the induction of the new Moderator Rev Bruce Johnson. The six hundred-strong crowd filled the Alexandra Park auditorium with the songs of praise and the sounds of laughter as a cast of Wizard of Oz characters painted a picture of the church at mission ...

A year of events to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Protestant reformer Jean Calvin is being launched in Geneva, a cradle of the Protestant Reformation. "I hope the legacies of Jean Calvin will be a source of renewal and inspiration as churches increase their commitment to Christian unity and justice for all God’s people and for the ...