News, Notices & Prayer points - 19th September 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
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Are Australians Dividing Further on the basis of race?
Understanding our Australian Constitution is important for the 14th October Referendum. Australia has always been divided on the basis of race. The Australian Government has the power to make laws on the basis of race; and has done so since 1901.
Reflection of the Week - 19th September 2023
To befriend death, we must claim that we are children of God, sisters and brothers of all people, and parents of generations yet to come.
Reflection of the Week - 12th September 2023
From whom do you need forgiveness? What have you done? Have you hurt someone you love? Does the guilt or shame gnaw at you? Have you caused pain and anguish? Are you trapped in the wreckage of your actions with no visible means of escape?
World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel
The photograph accompanying this article is in Bethlehem and is a section of the Security/Separation wall which surrounds the Occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
Snakes and Ladders be gone! Why The Voice to Parliament matters Part 2
But how will the Voice work? And what difference might a permanent Voice into the core of Government make?
News, Notices & Prayer points - 12th September 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Snakes and Ladders be gone! Why The Voice to Parliament matters
Is your head spinning over the battle that has erupted since the Referendum date announcement? Mine is!
Reflection of the Week - 5th September 2023
The older we become, the more we realise how limited we are in our ability to love, how impure our hearts are, and how complex our motivations are.
News, Notices & Prayer points - 5th September 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
News, Notices & Prayer points - 29th August 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Healing and Hope
Looking back: Looking forward. Self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has an element of looking back and addressing past injustices, dispossession and alienation. The call for truth telling in the Uluru Statement from the Heart is the chance to heal past hurts.
Reflection of the Week - 29th August 2023
I love the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Somehow the things I worry about feel smaller when I’m wandering in nature.
News, Notices & Prayer points - 22nd August 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Reflection of the Week - 22nd August 2023
Are we lacking a daily prayer life or have we elderly relatives in nursing homes whom we never visit? Try and figure out what more we can do to gain eternal life and then put together a plan to do it.
Reflection of the Week - 15th August 2023
In many of Jesus’ stories, he uses excellent illustrations to point out who and how we are called to be God’s people.
News, Notices & Prayer points - 15th August 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Swords to Plowshares
Korea Peace Appeal is an international campaign that seeks to amplify voices calling for an end to the Korean War and a transition from armistice to peace on the Korean Peninsula. More than seventy international partner organisations, including the World Council of Churches (WCC), are supporting the Korea Peace Appeal.
News, Notices & Prayer points - 8th August 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Reflection of the Week - 8th August 2023
In this earthly life, we walk around blind to much of the world. While many of us are blessed to have all our senses, it isn’t until one or more of them are compromised that we become more in tune with both the light and the darkness surrounding us.
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