SUMMER2019 Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/summer2019/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:56:07 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png SUMMER2019 Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/summer2019/ 32 32 Living out the call in a changing world https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/living-out-the-call-in-a-changing-world/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/living-out-the-call-in-a-changing-world/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:11 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29652 General Secretary of the Queensland Synod Rev Heather den Houting reflects on the recently released Mission Impact Report and the challenges and opportunities facing the Synod office and the wider church. Our church is a broad and complex organisation seeking to live out its call in a time of change. The Mission Impact Report, released ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/living-out-the-call-in-a-changing-world/feed/ 0 Postcards From The Past https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/postcards-from-the-past-summer2019/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/postcards-from-the-past-summer2019/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29692 In 1402 Jan Hus was appointed preacher to the University Chapel of Bethlehem (in Prague, a city in Bohemia) which had been founded 10 years previously as a centre for preaching in the native language (as opposed to the previous ecclesial practice of conducting services only in Latin). Week by week, Hus thundered away in the pulpit against ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/postcards-from-the-past-summer2019/feed/ 0 Climate change in the Asia-Pacific https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/climate-change-in-the-asia-pacific/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/climate-change-in-the-asia-pacific/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29700 Queensland Synod General Secretary Rev Heather den Houting reflects on the devastating consequences of climate change for those in the Asia-Pacific and her experience at the 2019 UnitingWorld conference in Bali where climate justice was a key topic. I wonder why we don’t listen to our Asia-Pacific partners more closely when it comes to issues ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/climate-change-in-the-asia-pacific/feed/ 0 What will be your legacy? https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/what-will-be-your-legacy/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/what-will-be-your-legacy/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29703 Leaving a legacy Some of us might shy away from thinking about leaving a legacy as it makes us think about death. But legacy is really about life and living. Thinking about our legacy helps us decide the kind of life we want to live and the kind of world we want to live in. ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/what-will-be-your-legacy/feed/ 0 Go beyond, but start here https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/go-beyond-but-start-here/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/go-beyond-but-start-here/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29707 UnitingWorld’s Cath Taylor reflects on expectations and transformations over the Christmas period and how the journey towards positive change is life-long, relational and hard won. There’s an assumption about “poor people” that gets splashed around this time of year, when many of us are celebrating and feeling a tad guilty about it. It shows up ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/go-beyond-but-start-here/feed/ 0 Act https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/act/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/act/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29714 Over the course of 2019 we have been unpacking a simple mission framework in this column. The framework is represented by four words: Know, Notice, Discern, Act. In this edition we consider the final component: Act. At the end of the day, mission involves action. Whether it’s proclamation, serving, hospitality, talking, listening, advocating, encouraging, celebrating, ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/act/feed/ 0 Boundary Riding: Summer 2019 https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/boundary-riding-summer-2019/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/boundary-riding-summer-2019/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29716 Did you get to see any of the ABC’s Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds? Wasn’t it great to see the life that the children brought to the residents, and equally the life that was shared by the residents with the children! You will be interested to know that Blue Care has been doing ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/boundary-riding-summer-2019/feed/ 0 Project Plenty – Hundreds of Voices Heard https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/project-plenty-hundreds-of-voices-heard/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/project-plenty-hundreds-of-voices-heard/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29655 Rev Heather den Houting reflects on the listening phase of the Project Plenty discernment process. Over the past six months, more than 600 people from across the life of the church have attended consultation and engagement sessions throughout Queensland. We have heard that people care deeply about the Uniting Church and want to see it ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/project-plenty-hundreds-of-voices-heard/feed/ 0 Walking together on country https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/walking-together-on-country/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/walking-together-on-country/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29658 As part of the Queensland Synod’s ongoing commitment towards genuine reconciliation and its recently launched Covenant Action Plan (CAP), various Second Peoples from Queensland’s southeast visited Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) for a walk on country. Queensland Synod CAP Project Officer Erin Mawhinney reports. On the Queen’s birthday holiday in early October, 17 people from the ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/walking-together-on-country/feed/ 0 The gift of hope, hand-delivered to remote Aussies https://journeyonline.com.au/features/the-gift-of-hope-hand-delivered-to-remote-aussies/ https://journeyonline.com.au/features/the-gift-of-hope-hand-delivered-to-remote-aussies/#respond Fri, 29 Nov 2019 01:21:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=29660 Felipe Beltran reflects on our wonderful Uniting Church bush chaplains who minister to those living in remote Australia. I caught up with Frontier Services bush chaplain Pastor Cain Hartigan and his wife Jacki at the Birdsville Races earlier this year. We talked about the needs of people in the Cunnamulla-Burke and Wills Remote Area, where ...

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