Queensland Synod News

THIS month we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia. In May we launched the Side by Side study resource and are happy to say the additional resources are all now online at http://ucaqld.com.au/about-us/about-the-uniting-church-in-queensland/together-on-the-way-enriching-community Additional online resources can accompany the study and include four videos looking at different partnerships, music selections and potential prayers. We'd love ...

THE Synod Chaplaincy Commission has been working towards providing chaplains to mining communities that are often isolated and under pressure from the fly-in, fly-out industry. With the April announcement that the Norwich Park mine in the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland, will cease operation, the need to support mining communities really hits home. Synod Ministries Coordinator, Rev John Cox, said mining ...

IT is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we share with you the Side by Side study resource this month. A product stemming from Together on the way, enriching community, the resource has been developed by a team from the Uniting Church in Queensland to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia. It is based on the ...

AS we head towards Easter, there is an air of anticipation around the Synod Office. The Easter postcards have been distributed and we are excited about the Easter Sunday call to worship video, featuring the Moderator, Rev Kaye Ronalds and many of our church family, that has been produced in a joyful expression in diverse and multilingual interpretations of our ...

THE Queensland Synod has responded to the new Work Health and Safety legislation (which took effect in Queensland on 1 January) by reviewing its own Work Health and Safety resources. Queensland Synod Risk and Insurance Manager, David Munro, said new resources are in their final stages of review and take into account additional or changed requirements of the legislation and ...

AS part of the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia (22 June) a series of studies based around 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 (One body with many parts) is being developed. Stemming out of Together on the way, enriching community’s Priority Direction A (“Enabling a demonstrated commitment to the shared Call and Vision”), the study, called Side ...

ON our journey towards the Church's Vision 2020, the Uniting Church in Queensland has committed to numerous projects, as discerned from the Priority Directions reports at the 29th Synod last September. The following highlights some of our progress. • Development of a study resource is underway for use in the lead up to the 35th anniversary of the Uniting Church ...

As part of the Together on the way, enriching community journey the Queensland Synod has been experiencing many new and exciting changes. Currently, there is a pressing need to move a significant number of websites owned or maintained by the Synod office, congregations, presbyteries and agencies across the Uniting Church in Queensland to a new server. Part-time Web Migration Project ...

AN exciting project to explore the possibility of developing a digital discipleship resource was launched at Summer Madness youth camp on the Sunshine Coast in January. The project, called GrowFaith, is in the research phase. The resource is an integral part of enacting the Together on the way, enriching community (see http://ucaqld.com.au/about-us/about-the-uniting-church-in-queensland/together-on-the-way-enriching-community) recommendations to the 29th Synod of the Uniting ...

Alexandra Park Conference Centre on the Sunshine Coast was inundated in January with more than 200 Uniting Church young people for Summer Madness 2012. Organised by a team of youth leaders and people with a passion for helping young people experience God, the camp was a huge success. Over four days, high school aged youth and their leaders experienced the ...