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Day of Mourning - 19 January 2025
Congregations are invited to mark the Uniting Church Day of Mourning on Sunday 19 January 2025
Since 2019 the Uniting Church has marked a Day of Mourning on the Sunday before 26 January to reflect on the dispossession and ongoing injustices faced by Australia’s First Peoples, acknowledge our shared history and renew our commitment to justice and healing.
The 2025 liturgy and resource is being developed by Muth arrak, the UAICC in Queensland. The resource will be available to download in mid-December and there is a sign up option on the Assembly website to receive the resource as soon as it's available.
Resource Sharing for Advent & Christmas
A space to share Advent and Christmas resources and ideas.
An online space has been created for Uniting Church WA community to share ideas for the Advent and Christmas season. You will find a helpful selection of Intergenerational ideas as well as other resources.
Access the link below to browse for ideas or add some of your own. You can add by dragging and dropping files. Be sure to let people know where the resource has come from.
If you are having trouble viewing the resources contact Ps Julie Ridden - julie.ridden@wa.uca.org.au
The Uniting Church Assembly have also collated a helpful list of available resources for Advent 2024 - Click Here
Supporting Children in the Outback
Children in the outback are missing out, and they need your help.
Nearly half of the children in regional Australian communities are at high or very high risk of social exclusion, lacking opportunities that comes as a matter of course for kids in the cities.
The Rural Educational Relief Program is an exclusive Frontier Services program that aims to provide targeted financial support to families struggling to meet the costs associated with their children’s education. Read about it here.
Your donation can help Frontier Services reach out to children in the bush who are at risk of social isolation and exclusion.
Mission Fellowship StampsThe Mission Fellowship have been collecting postage stamps for 11 years, raising over $37,000 for Frontier Services. Due to changing circumstances they are now bringing this fundraising project to a close. If your congregation have been collecting stamps for this purpose, they ask that you please drop them to Bicton Uniting Church, 1 Carrington St, Palmyra or the Uniting Church Centre, 85-89 Edward St, Perth, by 11 December 2024. Thank you to the Mission Fellowship for your years of dedication and support to the work of Frontier Services. |
Congregation Update FormHave any of your congregation details changed recently? There is an online Congregation and Faith Community Membership Update Form which you can use anytime there are changes to the details at your Congregation or Faith Community. This includes when there are changes to your Church Council Members, elected members to Presbytery, and any change in contact details for the Congregation or Faith Community itself. |
- Call for Expressions of Interest for New National Commissions (UCA) - an invitation to contribute to our theological culture and common life and wealth. The Assembly are seeking expressions of interest to join new national Commissions established by the 17th Assembly and to provide feedback on their Terms of Reference.
- Transforming Lives, Families and Communities in Rural India (UnitingWorld) Laboni grew up in a typical rural village in West Bengal, India, where education is out of reach for many because families are too poor to invest in it. Find out more about the work of our Uniting Church partner the Church of North India - Diocese of Durgapur supporting education and community development initiatives.
- Act2 Vision Statements in Your Language (UCA) - The three vision statements which were part of the 17th Assembly resolutions on the Act2 Project have now been translated into 17 languages.
- Uniting WA Christmas Appeal - Foster their ambition, make a difference this Christmas. Uniting WA want to see every child reach their full potential – and with the support of a caring community – we can help them thrive. This Christmas Uniting WA will have twice as many children in their care. This means they need your support now more than ever.
- Trinity North Uniting Church - Surplus Items including a piano. With the impending sale of Wandoo Rd (Duncraig) church, Trinity North Uniting Church has now consolidated all its activities to the Greenwood church centre. There are items that are surplus to requirements available at the Wandoo Rd church building including a piano, furniture, decor, office supplies, and much more. Payment will be by donation. A Congregation will have to make its own arrangements for the moving of items it acquires. If any congregations has a need for items that make a church useable, please get in touch with Bob Hunt on 0428006166.
December
- Friday 6 December, 1.00pm. Wesley at One: Classical Swoon, at Uniting Church in the City, Wesley Perth.
- Saturday 7 December, 9.00am to 12.00pm. Kalamunda Market Day at Kalamunda Uniting Church.
- Tuesday 10 December, 12.00pm. Uniting Church Centre closed for staff function.
- Friday 20 December, 1.00pm. Wesley at One: Pipe Organ Extravaganza at Uniting Church in the City, Wesley Perth.
- Tuesday 24 December, 1.00pm. Christmas Eve - Uniting Church Centre closed for Christmas break until Thursday 2 January 2025.
- Wednesday 25 December. Christmas Day
- Thursday 26 December. Boxing Day public holiday.
This week we pray for:
Dongara Uniting Church
Frontier Services WA Bush Chaplains and Methodist Church of Sri Lanka
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