The National Professional Standards project is underway, and participation is invited from all interested parties. The principal aims of the project is to undertake a comprehensive review of professional standards for Ministry Agents in the Uniting Church, to enhance consistency in processes and operations, to provide clarity over the role of ministry and to help…
Profile: Meet Rev George Tully Retired Minister – Currently supply at Harrisville and Flinders What’s your earliest childhood memory? Playing along the headlands of a cane paddock with my mate, Bob. Bob was smaller and younger than I was. We were warned not to go across the road and into the cane paddocks because of…
If one was to follow the various media, social and traditional, it becomes heavily evident that we live in a post-Christian, post-religious age in the Western world. The rise of secularism, humanism and various manifestations of socialism seem to be the “new faith” being embraced, and we in Australia along with the UK, Canada and…
Families’ Worker Toowong Uniting Church What’s your earliest childhood memory? The most vivid one is me taking part in a nativity play at my kindergarten. The curtains were pulled back to reveal me dressed as an angel attacking the angel next to me because our wings had become entangled. My parents thought it was hilarious. …
I come from humble beginnings and grew up in a suburb of Johannesburg. I remember passing my time as a child pretending to be a teacher of an imaginary class. My dream world eventually became my reality, when I began training groups in recruitment skills in my early thirties. I had started my own company…
**Open to the public** Please share with your networks, co-workers, families, and friends 2-day Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST 11) **LIMITED PLACES REMAINING** Suicide is preventable. Anyone can make a difference. Learn to recognise people at risk of suicide, talk to them, hear their stories and understand their situations, then help them stay safe…