News, Notices & Prayer points - 20th August 2024
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.
A wise mentor leads someone to their own centre and to the Centre, but by circuitous paths, using their two steps backward to lead them three steps forward. It may look unproductive, but it is really the wisdom path of God.
A special Thanksgiving Service was held on Sunday 4th August to celebrate 150 years since the Moonta Wesleyan Methodist (now Uniting) Church was officially opened on 2nd and 3rd August 1874.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
The soul is that part of us that has never doubted and that has always said yes to God. It’s in everyone. Even in those moments when we are filled with negativity, there’s a little yes that holds on.
Mount Barker Uniting Church has had a number of rough sleepers using their car park every night of the week to erect their basic tents or sleep in their cars.
Residents at Resthaven Port Elliot are putting their artistic talent on show this month as part of the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Surviving with Jesus gives us hope that a different kind of world is possible—a world without sexual abuse, without misogyny and racism, and without violence.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Jesus prays for unity among his disciples and among those who through the teaching of his disciples will come to believe in him. He says: 'May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I in you ...' (John 17:21).
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
I pray that we will not be swept away by our own curiosity, sensationalism, and panic, but remain attentive to him who comes and will say: ‘Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world’ (Matthew 25:34–35).
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
What a gift the Lord has bestowed upon his disciples. Filled with and emboldened by the Holy Spirit, they are set to go out across the land and touch the lives of those who sorely need love and care.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
When Jesus is admonished in the synagogue, it is not by a close-minded community weary of an outsider’s teachings. It is by the ones who knew him as a boy: a young carpenter raised by Mary and Joseph in a tight-knit Nazarene community.
During the 2023 round of Uniting Foundation grant allocations, the committee was pleased to support the work of Mitcham Village Uniting Church with their community garden extension.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Resthaven Marion resident, Reverend Dr Sidney Green, is just as comfortable preaching to the congregation as he is amongst the pews.
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