News, Notices & Prayer points - 17 June 2025
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
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This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
It’s unfortunate that we lost the bread and fish ritual meal, because the bread and wine ritual meal didn’t emphasize this idea of surplus: real food that actually fed the poor.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
In celebration of Resthaven’s 90th anniversary, and coinciding with South Australia’s History Festival (1-31 May), Resthaven has today, 7 May 2025, launched its new ‘living history’ website: Resthaven: A History of Caring.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
In celebration of Resthaven’s 90th anniversary, and coinciding with South Australia’s History Festival (1-31 May), Resthaven has today, 7 May 2025, launched its new ‘living history’ website: Resthaven: A History of Caring.
I am just like you. My immediate response to most situations is with reactions of attachment, defensiveness, judgment, control, and analysis. I am better at calculating than contemplating. Let’s admit that most of us start there. The false self seems to have the “first gaze” at almost everything.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Inaction sometimes is the greatest action we can take. Stillness is sometimes the most important move we can make.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Are we working with the poor or choosing to be in solidarity with them? Are we squandering our time or seizing time as a constant opportunity to discover more about ourselves, our neighbours, and our God?
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again. When you are moved by the quiet vastness of a sun-colored ocean, you miss the friend who cannot see the same.
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