Climate Pastoral Care Training Day
On Tuesday 28 May 2019, I attended an all day ecumenical gathering of people who share a deep love for, and passionate commitment to, advocacy for the whole creation.
The Climate Pastoral Care Training Day was hosted by members of the Uniting Earth group at the United Theological College in North Parramatta.
President Dr Deidre Palmer gave a response to the keynote address at the sixth annual community Iftar dinner hosted by the Uniting Church and the Affinity Intercultural Foundation at Western Sydney University on Friday 24 May 2019.
Salaam Alaikum. God’s peace and abundant grace be with you.
As I begin this evening, I pay my respects to the Buramattagal Peoples, a clan of the Dharug nation, the sovereign Peoples and traditional custodians of the land on which we meet.
Making friends out of strangers
In the spirit of building friendship, about 150 people from diverse faith and cultural backgrounds came together for the Iftar Dinner co-hosted by the Uniting Church and the Affinity Intercultural Foundation on 24 May.
It was the sixth Building Harmony Iftar dinner to be co-hosted by Affinity and the Uniting Church, with the Assembly, the Synod of NSW/ACT and Uniting NSW/ACT acting as joint hosts and organisers.
Statement on ABC News report
ABC News has today regrettably published a story seeking to highlight divisions within our Church over our decision last year to allow ministers and authorised celebrants the freedom to perform same-gender marriages.
The report contains many factual errors, false allegations and misrepresentations that we will seek to address with the ABC in due course.
Naomi Paget Crisis Care Workshops
Ministry can be stressful in ordinary times and extreme, even disabling, at others.
A wide range of ministers, chaplains and managers in the Uniting Church will, by nature of their work, encounter periods of crisis which can be testing on themselves and their people.
We do well to understand the dynamics of how stress affects our life and relationships and build our capacity and resilience in terms of crisis management.
Sowing for the Future
It was inspiring and renewing to participate in the Synod of Queensland meeting from Friday 17 May until Monday 20 May 2019.
We heard many wonderful stories of the ways God is at work through the faithful and passionate witness of people in local Congregations, Presbyteries, Agencies, schools and communities in the Uniting Church in Queensland.
#NRW2019 Resources
There is a groundswell of ordinary Australians who want to see our nation grounded in truth, who want to walk together with courage.
The Courage to Walk Together: Reconciliation Week message
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia, Dr Deidre Palmer and President of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, Rev. Garry Dronfield, have encouraged Uniting Church congregations to work more closely with First Peoples in a joint message for Reconciliation Week.
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Sharing the Congress Spirit
Members of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress National Executive have met in Sydney to plan their future activities.
Armenia Calling
A delegation of Uniting Church leaders is on a three-week pilgrimage to Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation. The trip is led by Rev. Krikor Youmshajekian of St Andrews Uniting Church Longueville on Sydney’s lower north shore.
Our Vision for Flourishing Communities
For the past eight weeks we have encouraged Uniting Church members to think deeply ahead of the federal election using the resource, Our Vision for a Just Australia.
NCCA Roundtable on Domestic and Family Violence
On Thursday 2 May, I joined Australian church leaders remembering women who are survivors and victims of rape and domestic violence by observing “Thursdays in Black.”