Uniting Network Australia

14/08/2024

Read more here >> https://uniting.church/30-years-of-daring-to-hope/

In UC National News 14-20 August ⬇️
✝️ UCA arrives in Gothenburg for gathering of world Methodist family
🌈 30 years of Uniting Network Australia's Daring Gathering
🌱 Season of Creation 2024 calls for hope with action
🕊️ Praying for peace & unity on the Korean peninsula
🎉 Frontier Services' Gary Ferguson celebrates 10-year outback legacy
📣 Multi-faith week of climate action
& more 📩 https://mailchi.mp/nat/update-14-20-august

08/05/2024

For those in NSW, you may be aware the Cumberland Council meeting earlier this week passed a motion to ban same-s*x books, parenting at the moment.

Equality Australia has a petition that I would strongly encourage you to support. I will put more details in the comments below.

Protect rainbow families in Western Sydney and reverse Cumberland Council's book ban!

30/04/2024

'We don't' sell q***r identifying merchandise to make sales ... we sell these products so that our customers and our team know they are safe ... so that when a q***r teen comes in for the first time to buy a dress they know we are not judging them ... that when they come out of the changeroom we'll say 'you look lovely'. We sell these products so that people in our stores know they are safe - and if they don't feel safe they can tell us and we will support them'.

09/04/2024

It is expected that by the end of this week, the UK Cass Review will be made available.

From my own observations and those of others, I am expecting this to be a very bad report for the transgender community in the UK. Accordingly, most of the press and the anti-transgender people on social media will go mad.

The link below takes you to some talking points around the Cass Review. I did make a (personal?) submission on the draft paper, but it has never been acknowledged.

Most importantly, please be safe. That might be a great idea if you need to stay off social media for a week or so. If you say on social media (and mainstream media), please be aware of your mental health and have a plan in place if it deteriorates from all the hubris that will occur.

To our non-transgender members, this is your opportunity to reach out to transgender people you know inside and outside of our network.

Thinking of you all, Jason

16/01/2024

Join our Sydney Gay & Le***an Mardi Gras Parade 2024 float! Meet pre Parade at the Pitt St Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St Sydney. Individuals need to register and pay not later than 4 February. (This is to meet a Mardi Gras set deadline.)

Get tickets on Humanitix - LGBTIQ+ Christian Groups: Mardi Gras Parade Float 2024. Pitt Street Uniting church and then walk to Oxford St Sydney. Saturday 2nd March 2024. Find event information.

22/10/2023

You are invited to join Uniting Church national Assembly teams for two consultations being held in November.

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Act2 is a major focus on the future shape and life of the Uniting Church. This conversation is for LGBTIQA+ people.

The Act2 website is https://www.act2uca.com/ You are invited in particular to look at the project plan to see the scope of the work and the recent report Act2: In Response to God’s Call.

DATE AND TIME: 1 November 2023, 7.00 - 8.30 pm (A E Daylight Time)

The Zoom link is
https://uca-nat.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd-iprj0oHdPY9B4extUHxxREwjiw1HT_

You can go to the Zoom link and register your interest in attending.

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Assembly Apology to LGBTIQA+ Australians Task Group. The group is inviting LGBTIQA+ people in the Uniting Church to a conversation facilitated by the Task Group Convenor, Lin Hatfield Dodds and other Task Group members. The conversation will cover the full range of issues involved in considering a possible apology to LGBTIQA+ people.

6.00 – 8.00 pm, AEDT, Tues 28 November via Zoom. (You can register for the consultation here:
https://uca-nat.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd-iprj0oHdPY9B4extUHxxREwjiw1HT_.)
Inquiries to Warren Talbot, Task Group secretary, at [email protected]