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Applications are invited for this position. Working with the Associate General Secretary for 2 days of the week, the position is to overlap with the recruitment of the next General Secretary.
Location: Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra, Australia
Applications due: 28 February 2018
Safe Church Training Agreement
Safe Church Awareness - presenter training 2018
The NCCA Safe Church program will be running a SCTA Safe Church Awareness presenter training in Melbourne on 23-24 March 2018.
The training is a two day program where participants will work through the 2018 SCTA Safe Church Awareness workbook with highly skilled presenters and NCCA staff.
The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) is providing a platform for young Christians in Asia to come together in Manado, Indonesia from 6-13 April 2018.
"Lord, send Your Light and Truth to lead us" is the theme and prayer for the Youth Assembly based on Psalm 43:3.
11 - 17 October 2020
Poverty exists. Poverty hurts us all. We can all do something about it.
Anti-Poverty Week supports the Australian community to have an increased understanding of poverty and to take action to collectively end it.
Affinity Intercultural Foundation
February Events - Sydney NSW
- Women of Faith: Challenges & Opportunities – Monday 26 February
- Religion in the Modern World: Panel Discussion - Monday 26 February
- Religious Freedom & Human Rights in Secular Society- Tuesday 27 February
Inquiry into the status of the human right to freedom of religion or belief.
Bishop Philip Huggins, on behalf of the NCCA, recently submitted a paper to The Hon Philip Ruddock, Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the status of the human right to freedom of religion or belief.
We are pleased to welcome Liz Stone to the NCCA office in the role of Associate General Secretary. She has taken up this role on a part time basis, working in our Sydney office.
Please join us in saying farewell to Sr Elizabeth Delaney.
Sr Elizabeth joined the NCCA team in January 2015 and was inducted as General Secretary on 4 March that year. We can all say that we have been privileged to work with Elizabeth over the past three years.
"Children in Our Midst"
Thursday 22 March 2018
NCCA office, Level 4 306 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC.
Laura Cregan, the new National Coordinator, Safe Church Program for NCCA, will present on implications from the final report of the Royal Commission.
In the recent Australia Day honours many people were recognised for their contribution to religious organisations and services. The NCCA congratulates all of them, with special mention to three who have been recognised for their contribution to child protection, interfaith relations and reconciliation:
- Mr Garth Owen BLAKE, AM (NSW) - Anglican
- Dr David CLAYDON OAM (NSW) - Anglican
- Rev Ivan Alexander ROBERTS, OAM (NSW) – Uniting Church
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Bishop Philip Huggins shares with us news from his community and an important message for us all at the start of the year.
- A Call For a Safe Start to School For Everyone
- Solidarity with the Australian South Sudanese Community
- Bourke Street Memorial Service.
NSW - Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Training
New courses opening in early 2018
The Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network (DRCN) is an ecumenical and multi-faith network of disaster-recovery trained clergy and ministry agents that have been responding to disasters and emergencies across NSW since 2011. The DRCN is currently coordinated by the Uniting Church in Australia (Synod of NSW and ACT).
A Celebration of the 450th Anniversary of the Edict of Torda
Where St Stephen's Uniting Church Macquarie Street, Sydney
Date: Sunday 4 Februrary 2018
Time: 1.30 PM
Led by: The Revd John Bunyan with the assistance of others
The Grace of Forests
Love of the bush is normal for Australians.
The Columban Misson Society has released a free online resource for Lent. It follows the scriptural readings for Liturgical Year B and covers the six Sundays in Lent. The resource invites believers to meditate on the variety of trees present in our bush as a way of returning to God with all our mind heart.
