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Thursday, September 3, 2020
UC National News - 4-10 Sep 2020 - Putting Children First, Still Praying for Lebanon and more
As the Season of Creation begins, Leichhardt Uniting Church has offered a beautiful worship song, Garden, to all those marking the occasion. For more Season of Creation suggestions join the Assembly's Transforming Worship Facebook group.
With many state borders still closed, Frontier Services is looking for more volunteers to lend a helping hand to people struggling across remote Australia.
The Assembly's new website - uniting.church - includes a new section Shaped by Jesus which explains the Uniting Church's approach to Jesus' transforming ministry. Resources from the old website can now be found at http://resources.uca.org.au. If you can't find something you're looking for please let us know.
The UCA through UnitingCare Australia has made a number of recommendations to the Disability Royal Commission Issues Paper on Rights and Attitudes. They range from a commitment to co-design educational programs on the rights of people with disability to removing barriers to participation. Read the submission.
COVID-19 has made us think more about the different forms the Church will take in the future. Our latest webinar hosted by the Being a Multicultural Church Circle explored the idea of "hybrid eccelsiology" - being a Church that is fluid, adapatable and flowing out into the community around us.
Assembly General Secretary Colleen Geyer is asking church members responding to a survey on UCA Church Regulations to give their input by 13 September.
Dr Deidre Palmer has invited young adult leaders across the Uniting Church to join her online to connect and reflect on being Church now and into the future.
The Assembly Resourcing Unit's Monday 6pm "BYO Coffee" Zoom sessions will continue for the next few months. If there's anything you'd like to share, Zoom in.
A long-established Uniting Church-based Aboriginal organisation in the NT is looking for a new CEO.
JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR:
All those who put children's safety first in our churches, faith communities, schools and agencies.
All those who are hurting as Australia enters its first recession in three decades. May we draw on the boundless reserve of God's love to comfort and strenghten us through the hardships ahead, and to ensure support for the vulnerable around us.
The people of Lebanon who continue to need care, love and compassion.
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