WHEN PREPARING a worship service people in ministry all over the world seek the advice of one Brisbane-based Uniting Church minister. In 2000 Indooroopilly Uniting Church minister and long-time member of the National Working Group on Worship Rev David MacGregor began a website called Together to Celebrate. The site offers musical selections that link up with weekly readings from the ...

The Uniting Church National Assembly has launched a new and improved website (www.assembly.uca.org.au) together with new sites for most Assembly agencies and working groups,. “The sites have been rebuilt into a content management system that allows each of the Assembly agencies and working groups to easily maintain their sites and add and delete content so our sites are now offering ...

The South Moreton Presbytery has recognised a Sudanese congregation as an official faith community. The congregation worships at St David’s Uniting Church at Coopers Plains and is made up of 50 to 60 Nuer people, mostly refugees from Sudan. The Nuer people have been in the middle of the civil war in Sudan since 1983. In that time more than ...

One of the best known voices in Australian worship music is afraid we have missed the point of Christianity. Former Assembly of God pastor and founder of the Hillsong music empire Geoff Bullock told Journey he questioned the theology of many of the songs sung in churches, including some of his own songs. “The biggest thing that I fear is ...

UNITING CHURCH members including Zillmere congregation’s worship band, Warriors for Christ, joined an ecumenical service to celebrate the Kairos prison ministry. As an interdenominational Christian ministry, Kairos team volunteers come from the Catholic and Anglican Cursillo and the Emmaus communities. Members of the Uniting Church have long been associated with the Emmaus movement and through Emmaus many have become involved ...

Traffic came to a standstill in central Bangalore in Karnataka state on 25 September, as thousands of Christians took part in protest rallies against a wave of violence directed against them in eight of India’s regional states. At the end of a rally organized by the Karnataka Christian Federation, participants staged a sit-down protest in front of a statue of ...

A FEW years ago the Jerusalem City Christian Church didn’t have its own building. They used another denomination’s facility, and shared everything they had, selling their property and possessions to give the money to the poor. They broke bread in their homes, praising God each day. Today the River Gum Ridge View Estate Uniting Church (Journey’s hypothetical church) is an ...

BLACKWATER UNITING Church could be a great example for congregations looking for ministry opportunities to connect with the wider community. The ministerial placement has not been filled for many years and Blackwater had part-time support from the Emerald clergy until about 2002. The mining town congregation doesn’t have a children’s ministry but jumped at the opportunity when the Duaringa Shire ...

QUEENSLAND WOMEN made up two thirds of the Australian delegation to the South Pacific area forum of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women in Tonga in late September. Seven nations were represented as 400 delegates focused on the United Nations’ Millennium Goals. They particularly considered how women make a difference in achieving those goals. Uniting Church Adult ...

ASPLEY UNITING Church’s ideas of an AM service changed recently. It wasn’t Sunday morning and it was FM when they joined Brisbane radio station 96.5FM for a broadcast at the Aspley East State School. There was plenty of service as congregation members helped with breakfast, inflated balloons and coloured-in with children during the The Family Show broadcast. When the radio ...