Synod 2011
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Fossil fuel and tertiary ministry
In one of its final actions, the 2011 meeting of the Uniting Church’s Synod of New South Wales and the ACT addressed its involvement in financing future fossil fuel power stations. As a major customer of Westpac and ANZ banks, Synod resolved to write to the banks asking them to commit to ceasing their financing [...]
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Synod resolves to form Korean presbytery
The Synod of New South Wales and the ACT on September 27 passed by formal majority a proposal to convert its Korean Commission into a presbytery. Presbyteries in the Uniting Church have responsibility for oversight of the church’s life and work in their region, especially for the settlement of ministers, establishment, amalgamation and disbanding of [...]
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Synod seeks end to off-shore processing
The Uniting Church’s Synod of New South Wales and the ACT has expressed its grave concern at the Federal Government’s attempts to deal with people smuggling to Australia by overriding and disregarding the human rights obligations to which Australia committed itself. On the final day of its 2011 meeting in Newcastle, the Synod joined the [...]
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Uniting Church calls for change in out-of-home care
The Uniting Church is seeking a child protection system in New South Wales that provides quality services and leads to better outcomes for vulnerable children and young people. It believes there must be increased investment in early intervention and family preservation services, and that out-of-home care must be transferred to the non government sector. The church’s [...]
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Church seeks juvenile justice reform
The Uniting Church’s Synod of New South Wales and the ACT has called on the New South Wales Government to make changes to the Bail Act to divert children and young people away from detention centres as a first step in reform of juvenile justice. It also called on the Government to implement “Justice Reinvestment”, [...]
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Presbyteries to be reviewed for future effectiveness
The Synod of New South Wales and the ACT has recognised that its current presbytery structure is not sustainable and will pursue a program of review and change to ensure more effective sharing of resources. The central message of a report discussed at the Synod meeting at Newcastle University was that presbyteries in the Synod [...]
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Tertiary ministry: Students feel less alone
Students who have connected with Uniting Church ministry on campus have clearly articulated the importance and impact of tertiary ministry in a report to the Synod of New South Wales and the ACT tabled on September 24 in Newcastle. “Through Uniting Church tertiary ministry I’ve learnt ways to connect with God and people that go [...]
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‘It’s time to spring clean the church’
Sadie the Cleaning Lady, aka Katalina Tahaafe Williams, candidate for ministry and former director of Communitas, has urged members of the Synod of New South Wales and the ACT to embark on a spiritual, theological and ecclesiological spring clean. “This could very well be what a new and risky path would look like for many [...]
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Church family needs input from all
The Uniting Church needs to be like a supportive family that looks after its membership, cooperates and keeps an eye on mutual interests. But this is not always the reality, Synod members heard during the Living is Giving stewardship program’s report to Synod on September 27. “Unfortunately, instead of reflecting on what the Uniting Church [...]
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Presbyteries foster partnerships for faithful discipleship
The Presbyteries of Ku-ring-gai, Mid North Coast and Canberra Region presented reports at the Synod meeting in Newcastle on September 26. Mid North Coast Presbytery said it was operating from a three-zone concept “to learn to know each other and to create better ways to implement education”. The presbytery is “putting primary importance on the [...]
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