This sermon was delivered by President Stuart McMillan for the Samoan National Conference at St John’s Uniting Church in Essendon, Victoria on Sunday 15 October 2017.

This sermon was delivered by President Stuart McMillan for the 200^th anniversary celebration of Castlereagh Uniting Church in western Sydney on Sunday 8 October 2017.

Fakaalofa atu, Hello – It is my delight to be with you today for this 10^th Anniversary National Conference.

General Secretary Colleen Geyer's address the NSW/ACT's Pre-Synod meeting Eco Day celebrating the leadership of women.

What can we learn from the above, for the challenge of making our relationship with the rest of Creation a core aspect of our identity, not just in words but in every aspect of our discipleship? 

Eating Crow

I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the Kaurna Nation, their elders past and present, and all descendants of this clan/nation. They are irantiyarta, sovereign of yarta-ana, these lands and waters where we meet today. I pay respects also to all other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with us, Australia’s sovereign First Nation Peoples.

President Stuart McMillan joined Pastor Ray Minniecon of UAICC NSW/ACT to talk about the UCA's covenant with First Peoples at West Epping Uniting Church in Sydney on 20 August 2017.

Synod meetings in coming months will be asked to discuss Sovereignty and Treaty to enable discernment for decision-making at the 15th Assembly.

This is an edited version of  a sermon delivered by President Stuart McMillan at St Andrew's Longueville Uniting Church in Sydney on Sunday 16 July.

First, let me say that while I did anticipate retiring at the end of this month having concluded with the Assembly, I have been asked to teach full-time next semester at Murdoch University for the WA Synod.  So I will not be retiring just yet!

Having said that, I do want to say a few words about my time with the Assembly.

(Delivered by Assembly General Secretary Colleen Geyer on 9 July 2017.)

Chris’ ministry at the Assembly began on 1 November 2008 with a service of induction at the Assembly Standing Committee on 14 November 2008.

At his induction the President Rev. Gregor Henderson presided and Rev. Allan Thompson preached on Matthew 25:14-30 The Parable of the Talents.

People of the Uniting Church in Australia, you have been planted with roots deep into the good soil of the gospel: you’ve been established in love. May the love of Christ dwell in your hearts and may this love that surpasses knowledge enable you to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

This was the welcome address by the President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan at the Iftar Dinner co-hosted by the Uniting Church in Australia and Affinity Intercultural Foundation at Parramatta Mission on 14 June. 

The Grand Mufti of Australia, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, was the keynote speaker at the Iftar Dinner hosted by the Uniting Church and the Affinity Intercultural Foundation at Parramatta Mission on 14 June. This is his speech. 

President Stuart McMillan shared a personal perspective on reconciliation and renewal with Australia's First Peoples at the Methodist Consultative Council of the Pacific in Tonga in May 2017.

Stuart McMillan: I’m Stuart McMillan, President of the Uniting Church in Australia.

I wish you and your loved ones a blessed and safe Easter season.

It was a delight to spend time with God's people in the Illawarra on 26 March 2017. I preached at Keiraview Uniting Church, a small community church nestled in North Wollongong on the NSW South Coast. 

My sermon contrasted rejection and condemnation with acceptance and being chosen by and as precious to God.

I acknowledge the traditional owners, and pay my respects to elders past and present.

I also acknowledge Rakel Dink and her family, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Mr Greg Soghomonian of the ANCA and many other distinguished guests.

It is a great honour to join you today on behalf of the Uniting Church in Australia to honour the memory of Hrant Dink.

Padma Raman, Executive Director, Australian Human Rights Commission:

It is a great honour and privilege to be here today to share in the celebration of Elenie Poulos and her ministry.

To me - and I’m sure to everyone here today, Elenie embodies the essence of Christian goodness.

Let me begin then by acknowledging the First People of this place, those who under the grace of God cared for and nurtured and kept this place in life.

Let me thank Elenie for the privilege of being here, for inviting me to this place. We sit in a long line together Elenie and I, I was the second staff person in this role many centuries ago.

Elenie’s ministry at the Assembly began in January 2002 and she was inducted at Centenary Uniting Church in Parramatta on the 22nd of March.

It was a time when justice, peace and faith in humanity were extremely challenged around the world.

When I started in this ministry I had no idea what it was about – just an unshakeable sense that it was where I was meant to be.

I’m very thankful for their willingness to take such an enormous risk, but I still wonder, on occasion, how it was that the interview panel decided to give me the job.