News, Notices & Prayer points - 18th February 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.
I have only the desire to remain close to that place in me where I can hear the voice that calls me ‘my son, my beloved,’ and that will tell me what to do, say, or write when the time for it has come.
I have only the desire to remain close to that place in me where I can hear the voice that calls me ‘my son, my beloved,’ and that will tell me what to do, say, or write when the time for it has come.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
I have only the desire to remain close to that place in me where I can hear the voice that calls me ‘my son, my beloved,’ and that will tell me what to do, say, or write when the time for it has come.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
The word ‘patience’ comes from the Latin patior, meaning ‘to suffer’. The first promise Jesus gives us is that of suffering: ‘I tell you; you will weep and mourn…
A new beginning! We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Barbara was in serious need of help. On her own, with a heart condition, two bad hips, and a shoulder injury, she’d already lost the last of her sheep to the drought and the floods.
‘Resthaven Marion celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, so this major redevelopment is timely.’
‘Life is full of ups and downs,’ Daphne says. ‘While I haven’t been aware of it at the time, when I look back, I can see that I’ve been directed and led to do these things. My faith brings me peace, and that keeps me humble.’
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
“I was genuinely surprised at the joy of making and strengthening connections with the lovely people of Iksan and Seoul. God’s love was most definitely present throughout this trip.” - Megan 2024
A lot of giving and receiving has a violent quality, because the givers and receivers act more out of need than out of trust. . .
“I was genuinely surprised at the joy of making and strengthening connections with the lovely people of Iksan and Seoul. God’s love was most definitely present throughout this trip.” - Megan 2024
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
A true Christian always affirms life, because God is the God of life, a life stronger than death and . . .
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Most of us consider waiting as something very passive, a hopeless state determined by events totally out of our hands. The bus is late?
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