One Great Sunday of Sharing is held each year on the 3rd Sunday in July, or another date best suited to the local setting. The theme for 2009 is Guest and Host - Hospitality and God. One Great Sunday of Sharing provides an opportunity for Uniting Church congregations, Faith Communities and Fellowship Groups to share time together as both guest and host and to reflect on and to celebrate hospitality and God.

Be a host - but not all the time - by spending time together with people whose culture and background is different from your own. Remember that for all of us , all the time God is host.

• Be a guest and let others embrace you into their world, experiences, stories of journey and faith. Remember too that powerful image of Jesus  in revelation standing at the door of all ofour hearts knocking and awaiting our invitation for him to be our guest.
• As both host and guest - worship together and share fellowship with neighbours from cultures and languages different from our own.
• As both guest and host  - discover what it means to live together as people from different cultures and languagesin our worship, witness and service.
• As both host and guest - celebrate the richness of our diversity as God's people and the wondrous hospitality of God.
• As both guest and host - share faith and fellowshipwith language, image, songs, dance and artefactsthat speak across our cultures.

One Great Sunday of Sharing is also an opportunity for us to recommit to the vision of actually being a multicultural church where we are, and to celebrate what might be life giving and reassuring about that for Australian society. 

Below you will find resources in PDF format to help you celebrate One Great Sunday of Sharing.  

• Background information on One Great Sunday of Sharing
• Introduction letter on One Great Sunday of Sharing
• Information for a formal celebration
• Information for a less formal celebration
• Snapshots of Multicultural Ministry
• One Great Sunday of Sharing Translation worksheet
• One Great Sunday of Sharing Translation worksheet - Arabic
• One Great Sunday of Sharing Translation worksheet - Indonesian
• One Great Sunday of Sharing Translation worksheet - Kiribati
• One Great Sunday of Sharing Translation worksheet - Samoan