NYALC OnlineUCA President Dr Deidre Palmer has invited young adult leaders across the Uniting Church to join her online for an opportunity to connect and reflect on being Church at this time. The video gatherings scheduled over the next few months are an opportunity to remain connected after COVID-19 has meant the cancellation of the […]
BYO Coffee An invitation from the ARU team to join us on Zoom. NEW DATES FOR AUGUST + SEPTEMBER Monday 24 August 6:00 PM Monday 31 August 6:00 PM Thursday 3 September 6:00PM Monday 7 September 6:00PM Thursday 17 September 6:00PM Monday 21 September 6: 00PM COVID-19 has impacted us all differently, but for many […]
And its repercussions for our Ibero-Latino Community By Rev. Esteban Lievano, UCA Ibero-Latino National Conference Chairperson This week South America was reported as the new global epicentre for the COVID-19 virus. The pandemic will have long-lasting impacts on already impoverished and indigenous communities in the region, but it is also impacting Latin American communities living […]
Uniting Church Values Statement – Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety The Uniting Church welcomes the decision of the Federal Government to establish a Royal Commission into the quality and safety of aged care and pledges itself to cooperate fully and openly. The Commission’s recognition of the importance of building a national culture […]
DISABILITY ROYAL COMMISSIONUniting Church Values Statement in relation to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.In 2018 the 15th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia affirmed that:Christ is most fully present when all people in the Body are unconditionally accepted as people of worth. All people are created […]
Terror, challenge, and reimagined community in biblical treatments of disability By Rev. Dr Kylie Crabbe It probably won’t surprise any of us that there are passages in the gospels that can be deeply painful for people who identify as living with a disability. In one of my favourite phrases, biblical scholar Sharon Betcher describes, “the […]
By Rev. Dr (Deacon) Andy CalderThe gospel inspires our Uniting Church DNA and faith into responses of justice and care with vulnerable people experiencing stigma and exclusion (in contrast to the Do Nothing Approach).Our faith communities and community service agencies aim to be places of welcome and sanctuary and we celebrate many instances of that […]
Join the Being a Multicultural Circle and Assembly Resourcing Unit for our third webinar looking at the Church and COVID-19. The topic of this webinar is Hybrid Ecclesiology. In the midst of COVID-19, our worship and pastoral ministry is taking place in hybrid forms, online, offline, face-to-face and physically distanced. How is this changing the […]
When Intergenerational meets InterculturalThe shape of discipleship in the intersectional space between intergenerationality and interculturality By Robin Yang I am hoping to begin a national conversation that explores how we do lifelong discipleship and faith formation in the messy overlapping space between intergenerationality and interculturality. Dr Holly Allen, a leading voice in intergenerational ministry based […]
Cover of the July/August Faith at Home Resources from Messy ChurchAUGUST UPDATE This excellent list of resources is from a newsletter compiled by Chris Barnett from the Intergenerational Ministry – Children & Families team at equipping Leadership for Mission (eLM) in the Synod of VIC/TAS. NEW Faith at Home resources Faith at Home: Resources from […]