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7 ways to preserve your church history

Your church archives may be filled with priceless historical documents and photos but preserving them for future generations is a serious challenge. Journey offers seven tips for ensuring your memories don’t disappear. Seek out treasure Locate historical material onsite and ask members to search through their collections for photos, scrapbooks and so on. The Synod Congregation Document Preservation Policy spells ...

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Heartbreak and hope for crisis weary communities

Port Curtis, Rockhampton April 2017. Photo: Neil Richardson, Quantity Surveyor

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 South Wales are still reeling ...

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Wesley Mission Queensland launches reconciliation vision

(L–R) Geoff Batkin (chief executive officer, WMQ), Rev Lyn Burden (Superintendent minister, WMQ), artist Luke Mallie, Steve Eltis (director of People and Culture, WMQ) and Hon Mark Furner (Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Queensland government). Photo: Wesley Mission Queensland

Wesley Mission Queensland (WMQ) recently took the next step in the organisation’s reconciliation journey with the formal launch of their Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Journey reports. In early March the Wesley Mission Queensland RAP was officially launched at the Art from the Margins Fortitude Valley studio with guests from across the organisation, politicians and members of the local community in ...

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