NCCA Newsletters (2320)
Children categories
National Child Protection Week – 3-9 September 2023
This year’s overarching theme is “Where we start matters” and the message is “Every child in every community needs a fair go”.
From our Christian communities
- ACBC release 2023 Social Justice Statement "Listen, Learn, Love"
- Discussion – Voice to Parliament – Anglican Diocesan webinar recording
- Australian Women Preach – Sherry Balcombe
National Day of Compassion
Take a day to pause and join the Australian Compassion Council in Deep Dreaming: Australia A Continent for Compassion
2023 Theme: Compassion and Deep Wisdom
When: 21 September 2023 from 8:00 am AEST
WCC and Churches Together SA
Imagining a Safer World Event
Speaking on behalf of the World Council of Churches (WCC) at a “Churches Together South Australia” event on 13 August, WCC director of international affairs Peter Prove offered an address on “Imagining a Safer World.”
5th annual delegation
On 9 August 2023, NCCA General Secretary, Liz Stone was in Canberra as part of the Micah Women Leaders Delegation to Parliament House.
Pilgrims with the Planet
Coming to Terms with Climate Change and the Shift to the Anthropocene
When: Wednesday 13 September, 1:00 pm to Thursday 14 September 2023 4:30 pm (AEST)
Where: United Theological College, 16 Masons Drive North Parramatta NSW
16-23 September 2023
Theme for 2023: No place to lay my head!
"Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Matthew 8:20
I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
(Isaiah 43:19)
Our opportunity is to build something new out of the foundations laid in the past....
Join Everybody's Home campaign to end homelessness
Over 80 agencies have combined for the Everybody’s Home campaign to solve homelessness in Australia.
We need to fix the system.
You’re invited to the 2023 Christmas Bowl
Preparation is well under way for the 2023 Christmas Bowl. We would love for your congregation to be a part of this important tradition of Christians across Australia coming together on the one great day of sharing to support people uprooted by conflict and disaster around the world.
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Hidden homelessness in Australia
Homelessness in Australia is often hidden for those in our community, like people seeking asylum with no work rights and no income support, while they wait for resolution of their visa status.
Building safe communities
- Keeping our Kids Safe Stakeholder Kit -The National Office for Child Safety
- See the signs of coercive control - South Australian Government
- Grafton Presenter Training - NCCA Safe Church workshop 29 July 2023
Australian Churches and creation care
The NCCA's Faith and Unity Commission are pleased to share their document Churches in Australia and the Care of Creation.
"As the churches have reflected together on the climate crisis, we have recognised that we do speak with one voice."
Catholic Church in Australia
Ecumenical Prayer Vigil
In solidarity with a major international gathering in Rome ahead of the first session of the Synod on Synodality, Catholic communities around the world have been invited by Pope Francis to host an ecumenical prayer vigil on the weekend of 30 September - 1 October 2023.
