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What the church needs to learn from Pokémon GO

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 04:33:13 +0000

The augmented reality app sweeping the world is sending a lot of people to church. Mardi Lumsden offers some lessons the church needs to learn from the phenomenon. Your buildings are landmarks, but you need to get out more PokéStops, gyms etc. are decided by a database of user-supplied data created for a previous game by the ...

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Not drowning, waving: Singles and the church

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 04:00:16 +0000

Singles make up more than half of the people in churches, yet they are often sidelined when it comes to ministry and outreach. Dianne Jensen asks singles how we can change things. Many people go to church alone. While some have a spouse tucked up in bed with the Sunday paper or doing the soccer ...

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Thai’d together on mission

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:48:55 +0000

Over the Christmas and New Year period, five members of Toowong Uniting Church embarked on a short term mission trip to Thailand. Grace Branjerdporn reflects. The mission trip was called Thai’d Together to represent the sense of collaboration and cooperation that the team wanted to have with the local churches in Thailand. With only 1.2 per ...

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Connecting congregation and community

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 08 May 2015 22:00:19 +0000

St Lucia Uniting Church minster Rev Peter Lockhart speaks with Ashley Thompson about the Uniting Church’s place in the crowded ministry of university chaplaincy. A mere five minute drive from the University of Queensland’s main campus, St Lucia Uniting Church is perfectly situated to minister to nearly 1200 young adults residing in Uniting Church–affiliated colleges: ...

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