Home > Tag Archives: Frontier Services

Tag Archives: Frontier Services

New road for Frontier Services

Four wheel drive in the outback. Photo was supplied.

The 14th Assembly has sought to understand the reasons behind the changing circumstances of the Uniting Church’s valued remote area ministry Frontier Services. Nigel Tapp writes. Frontier Services is changing tack, re-directing its work away from aged-care to community support activities and resourcing patrol ministry. Less than a year after Frontier Services celebrated its 100th anniversary and the 13th Assembly ...

Read More »

Put your hands together for our church!

Uniting Church Queensland Synod Moderator Rev Kaye Ronalds

The trouble with the Uniting Church is that we have taken too literally the biblical principle of not letting the right hand know what the left hand is doing. Not only that, we are not good at blowing our own trumpet in the community. On the one hand, in Blackall a part-time youth worker is supported by his congregation. Scott ...

Read More »

Churches respond to drought crisis

Transfer of the hay begins from the road train to local farm vehicles in Longreach. Photo by Jenny and Peter Coombes

Uniting Church bodies across Australia have coordinated to feed livestock, offering reprieve to desperate farmers throughout Queensland. Ashley Goetze reports. Confirmed by the ABC as Queensland’s most widespread drought on record, Frontier Services and members of two churches have independently taken action to alleviate the enormous cost of providing hay to Queensland’s starving livestock. “In six to eight weeks you ...

Read More »