The Project Plenty Discipleship working group are creating Advent & Christmas Resources to help Churches share the Joy of Christmas with their congregations and the wider community. The resources will include themes and ideas for worship, community and congregational reflections and studies, and materials to help families connect with and countdown to Christmas. Please complete this form to sign up for updates ...

Interested in attending an Ecumenical/interfaith workshop? Perhaps you will be inspired to learn more if you read how the Anglican and Uniting Church congregations of Cloncurry found much more than common ground.  The small outback town of Cloncurry has typified many small rural communities, particularly so in terms of its churches. For many years the Anglican and Uniting Church congregations ...

By Vanessa Griffiths, Fundraising Support Manager, Church Enterprise Development.  David Strachan is a student at Raymont Residential College and in his second year of studies.  In 2021 he was the recipient of the Christ Family Christian Leadership Scholarship.  He grew up in a small town in New South Wales and went to the local high school.  He started studying theology ...

The 36th Synod of the Uniting Church in Queensland has drawn to a close after four days of worship, community, business, and some fun. Relationships across the church have been renewed or established as we have lived the community. The Synod this morning reflected once again on the overall theme of Daring Hope and, for today, dipped into what it ...

The 36th Synod continued into Sunday with a focus on transforming communities. The first reports and proposals for the meeting were received, considered, and, in some cases, adopted in what has been a busy but engrossing day of work. Bible Study with Rev Richard Cassady The morning began with worship and a bible study with Rev Richard Cassady and host ...

The 36th Synod of the Uniting Church in Queensland is underway. Members have gathered today at Alexandra Park, sharing stories of travel challenges faced to overcome widespread rain and flooding, but determined to be together to explore the Synod’s theme of Daring Hope. After a flood-related delayed start, the Synod knuckled down to work today, beginning in worship, discerning a ...

The 16th Assembly officially reconvened at Alex Park and commenced with a historic renewal of the Covenant between the Uniting Church in Australia and the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress. In a gesture of profound humility, those Second Peoples who participated in the worship and all who were watching online were invited to kneel for an Act of Confession ...

‘Until we are all free, we are none of us free.’- Emma Lazarus The poetry of Emma Lazarus was immortalised on a bronze plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903. In her sonnet, The New Colossus, Lazarus inspired a generation with her well-known call: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe ...

Designed to help strengthen connections with Uniting Church congregations throughout Queensland, Connect 100 builds on UnitingCare’s commitment to sharing in mission as part of the Uniting Church family. Scott Guyatt writes. Connect 100 projects are already underway in Redcliffe, Central Queensland and Elanora, with further concepts currently being developed right across the state.  Local projects are designed to foster collaboration ...

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” (Jeremiah 29: 11) This is the gift of Christmas. The promise of a future with hope. We know so many don’t have hope leading into this Christmas season. It is why Lifeline ...