Partners

Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma Conference

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Last week I attended the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma Conference (Bose Ko Viti).  The Conference was held in the Centenary Church on 29th to 31st August 2012.  This was the first time the church has been allowed by the Interim Government to hold the conference since 2008.  Approval for the Conference was issued [...] 

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Assembly Guests Embody Uniting Church’s Identity

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Tweet The participation of over 50 guests from 34 overseas churches and partner organisations in the Uniting Church in Australia’s National Assembly in Adelaide next week reflects its determination to cooperate with churches in Asia, the Pacific and Africa as they pursue fullness of life for all people. “We stand with partners as together we discern God’s presence in an increasingly inter-connected... Read More »

On being the Body of Christ in the World

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Experts and structures have had their day. These days people yearn to engage in relationships. Credibility and authenticity define who we trust and who we work with. In December last year I accompanied a group from Glebe Road Uniting Church in Brisbane on a visit to Ekaristi Church in Timor Leste. The visit was not [...] 

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“This is what I saw”- Climate Change in the Pacific

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

This month UnitingWorld launched an appeal for the people of Tuvalu and the Pacific in support of our Climate Change Response Program. UnitingWorld’s Associate Director in Church Solidarity for the Pacific, Bruce Mullan, is just back from Tuvalu and Kiribati, and he chats to us here about what he saw that makes him think this project [...] 

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Living the Resurrected Life

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Does anyone else find it hard to know quite what to do with Easter these days? It used to be all so easy.  Friday- sad.  Sunday- happy.  Jesus died for you, believe and you are forgiven, go in peace. When I was a child there was a tangible symmetry to the Easter weekend. I felt [...] 

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