The Glenburnie Program

Applications are invited for this program. Funding is intended to “provide resources for the churches and the community on issues relating to a just, participatory and sustainable society."

Closing date for applications: 30 April 2021. 

On 15 March 2011, the devastating war in Syria broke out. In ten years, over 5 million Syrians have been displaced and over 6 million more have been forced to relocate. It is the largest refugee crisis of our time.

Middle East Council of Churches: MECC Lights a Candle of Hope in the Lives of Syrians

Act for Peace: March refugee appeal - Showing Syrian refugees they are not forgotten.

Child Safe resources in community languages

The Uniting Church in Australia's (UCA) National Safe Church Unit has a new set of posters which share the Principles of a Child Safe UCA in eight languages.

The Glenburnie Program

Applications for the 2021-2022 will close soon. Funding from the Glenburnie Program is intended to “provide resources for the churches and the community on issues relating to a just, participatory and sustainable society."

Applications close: 30 April 2021. 

Sunday 21 March 2021

“I solemnly assure you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. But if it dies, it produces much fruit. The person who loves his life loses it, while the person who hates his life in this world preserves it to life eternal.”  John 12:24-25 

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is making available a prayer service to invite its member churches and partners across the world observe the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March 2021.

#end violence against women 

This week across Australia church women and men joined the tens of thousands calling for serious attention and funding to end violence against women. #Enough is enough.

World Council of Churches

Week of prayer in the Time of COVID-19 22 - 27 March 2021 

Voices of Lament, Hope and Courage, Prayer book and resources

Crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia

• Send a Parcel of Hope to a girl or woman fleeing conflict in Ethiopia.
  
  
• Sign the petition - call on the Ethiopian Government to continue its long-standing commitment to protect Eritrean refugees sheltering in Ethiopia.

The Uluru Statement 

The government is running a co-design process to decide what an Indigenous Voice to all levels of government will look like. 

From the Heart:  All who are inspired by the Uluru Statement are called to make a submission by 31 March 2021.