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LIVING CHURCH - SYNOD 2019

What Synod support for the Statement from the Heart means
In 2019, Rev Dr John Squires said a proposal presented to Synod – in consultation with the Uniting Aboriginal & Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) and Rev. Dr Amelia Koh Butler – supporting the Statement from...
“We can’t change the world, but we can do a little bit towards it”
Inspired by a climate change TV show, Drowning in Plastic, the Campbelltown Uniting Church community decided to take some action. At Insights we had the opportunity to talk to John Russell, a Board Member and...
The Purpose of the Living Church
What makes the church a living church?  This was the question posed by Rev Peter Walker on the first day of the Living Church Synod 2019. In the first of three daily devotionals focusing on...
The Focus of the Living Church
What do we really mean when we speak of the church as a community in which there is unity in our diversity? We are an inclusive church that values diversity. What does unity in diversity...
The Identity of the Living Church
Identity is important. And it is fair to say the Uniting Church has spent a disproportionate amount of its energy on the question of its identity, Rev. Peter Walker has told the final day of...
What Living Church means to us
At Synod 2019 the theme was ‘Living Church’ and throughout the event, we asked people what the Uniting Church meant to them and how they felt their Uniting Church was a Church living out the...
Synod 2019 Bible Studies
Over three days, United Theological College Principal Rev. Peter Walker delivered Bible Studies to the 2019 Synod meeting. These studies have been praised by Synod members as one of the meeting’s highlights. You can watch...
Synod 2019: John Squires reflects
Synod this year was a rich experience of being the church. In the church, we are young and old, and at every point in between. In the church, we are black, brown, and white; we...
Synod Special Event: ‘Half a Million Steps’ Panel Discussion
On Friday 6 July, the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW and the ACT hosted a special screening and Q&A panel discussion on the documentary 'Half a Million Steps' at Knox Grammar. The panel...

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UME’s Mission Enablement team plan to offer a one-year formation hub again in 2022. The Formation Hub targets helps participants’ skills and spiritual formation. It will include time for both reflection and practice.The Hub consists...
Campbelltown Uniting Church: Online worship has been challenging
Continuing Insights’ series of interviews with ministers of congregations in LGAs of concern, we asked Rev. Andy Carlisle, minister of Campbelltown Uniting Church, about his congregation’s experiences of tightened restrictions. He told Insights that while...
With Love to the World Is in Good Hands
For forty-five years With Love to the World has done an amazing job of producing a high-quality Bible reading and devotional booklet. And now available as an App, its spiritual impact on thousands of readers...
‘Hold that thought’ returns
Hold That Thought @ Home has returned for another season in lockdown. Last year, the series was filmed by contributors at home and submitted, and this year due to extended lockdown it will be done...
A Voice for All
Luke 2: 1-2 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of...
Resourcing Small Churches for 20 Years
Project Reconnect has been resourcing small churches for 20 years, providing sermon videos, recorded music, and discussion questions. This project “assists congregations to develop and maintain a vibrant witness to Christ in their communities,” by...

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