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Ministry in Queensland’s top end

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 23:56:37 +0000

Meet Karama Ioapo, the minister on the new Kennedy Patrol established by Frontier Services in conjunction with the North Queensland Presbytery. The patrol takes in the former Cape York Patrol and the northern half of the former Flinders Patrol. Dianne Jensen reports. Kennedy Patrol minister Rev Karama Ioapo regularly passes through what’s left of the ...

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Moderator’s Musing – 21 August 2018

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:58:10 +0000

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in far North Queensland at the opening of the re-built Gully Peters Uniting Church on Mornington Island, and then “Walking on Country” with Rev Richard Cassady, some Synod leaders, and the team from “Australians Together”. Mornington Island is the home of Lardil peoples. It is also now home ...

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Debbie’s gone, but we’re still here!

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:17:26 +0000

Cyclone Debbie may have vanished from the news but the work of rebuilding and strengthening local communities is gaining traction, thanks to Synod appeal funds from donors nationwide. Dianne Jensen reports. When Cyclone Debbie let loose its fury on the north Queensland town of Bowen, Uniting Church minister Rev Tevita Mone and his five children ...

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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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Timely support for prisoners’ families

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:43:17 +0000

For the female relatives of Queensland prisoners, it can often feel as if they’re “doing time” with their incarcerated loved ones. Uniting Church members along with those from other denominations are helping to ease the pain with the Kairos Outside program. Ben Rogers reports. Created in North America in the mid-seventies, Kairos prison ministry started ...

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A prayer for those impacted by Cyclone Debbie

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 01:39:41 +0000

As Cyclone Debbie approaches North Queensland, many are anxiously preparing for what is predicted to be a “monster storm” with potentially destructive rain, flooding and winds exceeding 250 km/hr. Rev Garry Hardingham, North Queensland Presbytery minister, offers words of support and a prayer for those impacted. Today we need to be in prayer for those ...

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Chaplaincy: Delivering hope during Christmas

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:41:33 +0000

Three chaplains working in the police force, the defence force and health care talk to Journey about bringing hope to others during the Christmas season and their own hopes for 2017. Rev Doug Foster Rev Doug Foster is a police chaplain for the Far North Police District incorporating north of Cardwell, Cairns, Cape York and ...

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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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Christmas boost for isolated families

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:37:34 +0000

Mareeba Uniting Church and UnitingCare Community have joined forces to deliver neighbourly support to drought-affected families in north Queensland this Christmas. Dianne Jensen reports. The Mareeba Uniting Church congregation is hoping to raise at least $3000 to provide gift vouchers to nearly 70 families served by UnitingCare Community’s North Queensland Remote Area Families Service (RAFS). ...

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Strangers love this church in paradise

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:35 +0000

When was the last time the sound of singing drew passers-by into your church? Dianne Jensen discovers why people can’t walk past St Mary’s by the Sea in Port Douglas, North Queensland. At the picturesque St Mary’s by the Sea in Port Douglas, the worship service is relayed by loudspeaker to the markets just outside. ...

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