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Mine and yours: sharing tomorrow’s wealth

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 28 May 2018 05:41:38 +0000

I had my third visit to Cape York in April for the funeral of Rev Silas Wombly of Aurukun. Silas was a clan leader and a Uniting Church minister. Being raised at the mission, he worked as a stockman in the Gulf country before heading back to work for Comalco. He left for Nungalinya College ...

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Cape York nets a fisher of men

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 23:01:11 +0000

Rev Craig Mischewski began his ministry in a remote cattle camp in the Northern Territory, and he is still more than happy to leave the city lights behind. John Harrison talks to the new Uniting Church minister serving the isolated communities of western Cape York. New Zealand-born Rev Craig Mischewski is a big man with ...

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November 2016 Journey now available

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 01:24:39 +0000

One of British pop band Pulp’s biggest hits, “Help the Aged”, contains the lines, “Help the aged, ‘cos one day you’ll be older too, you might need someone who can pull you through”. Those words eerily played out in my head as I researched how the federal government’s proposed cuts to aged care health services ...

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New church for Mapoon

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:00:41 +0000

An appeal to replace the church at Mapoon which was burned in 1963 has been launched. Rohan Salmond writes. A new appeal to rebuild the church at Mapoon has been authorised by the 14th Assembly. Mapoon, on Cape York in far north Queensland was originally a Presbyterian mission. Bauxite was discovered in Mapoon during the ...

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Stepping up to leadership

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:00:52 +0000

Every young person reaches the point where they decide to sign up to their faith community or to drift away. Dianne Jensen talks to Heather Watson, former chair of UnitingCare Queensland, whose service to the church was shaped by the opportunities she received as a young Christian. Heather Watson has a clear recollection of when ...

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