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This is where God wants me to be

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:18:16 +0000

Rev Dr Kerry Pierce, the new Presbytery Minister for Central Queensland, shares her thoughts on returning to the area and taking up the challenge of her new role. My association with the Uniting Church and my adult faith development really began after reading the Basis of Union for a job interview with Lifeline Central Queensland ...

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A new hope for Central Queensland

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 06:04:48 +0000

On the second full day of business at the 33rd Queensland Synod, Rev Arthur Tutin, acting presbytery minister, brought a sense of optimism for the future of life in the Central Queensland Presbytery. Arthur spoke of the diversity of the Central Queensland Presbytery, which stretches from Gladstone to Airlie Beach and west to Longreach and ...

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Heartbreak and hope for crisis weary communities

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:08:13 +0000

While the massive clean-up after Cyclone Debbie and the associated record-breaking floods is well underway, it will take some months to count the real cost to the community. Journey reports on how the Uniting Church is supporting those impacted into the future. Farmers, business owners and householders in north and central Queensland and northern New ...

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Rethinking the church in central Queensland

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 04:37:17 +0000

Congregations in central Queensland are having their say about the ministry models they need to sustain them amid the ongoing challenges of life on the land. Dianne Jensen reports. Rev Arthur Tutin, the new Central Queensland Presbytery remote/rural ministry project officer, is the man literally behind the wheel of a two-year project to explore how ...

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Bush congregations battle to support drought communities

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Everyone tells us that the country is a real picture in a good season. But as the moderator Rev David Baker, Central Queensland Presbytery minister Rev Brian Gilbert and their Uniting Communications sidekick meet with church members in Longreach, Barcaldine and Blackall, the talk is all about the iron grip of the drought. Dianne Jensen ...

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Cyclone damage bill mounts

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:00:31 +0000

Uniting Church emergency aid and relief has begun to arrive in Central Queensland after Tropical Cyclone Marcia tore through the Capricorn Coast in February this year. Ashley Thompson reports. The Queensland Synod’s Risk and Insurance team has been contacted by 14 sites which sustained varying levels of insurable damage from Cyclone Marcia, totalling an estimated ...

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Emotions surface following Cyclone Marcia

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:51:02 +0000

In the coastal community of Yeppoon, Central Queensland, the clean-up continues after tropical Cyclone Marcia made landfall at Shoalwater Bay (between St Lawrence and Yeppoon) as a category five storm, Matt Gees writes. St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Yeppoon, approximately six kilometres up the hill from the main beach, sustained minor damage. However Emu Park Uniting Church ...

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