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A Safe Church Awareness Workshop will be held at Busselton Uniting Church,  47 Kent Street, Busselton on Saturday 21 April. The training will commence at 9.30am with Morning Tea and end at 3.30pm. All Ministers, pastors, members of congregations and those involved in community services are urged to attend. Cost is $20 per person. Please RSVP byRead more

Rumour has it that the renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead once commented that the church was a strange sociological miracle. How could it be that people of such diverse cultures, languages and personalities could somehow find oneness, unity and purpose in a religious organisation? She must have seen “the church” on a good day. Anyone whoRead more

Two Safe Church Awareness Workshops will be held in February 2018. A Safe Church Awareness Workshop will be held on Saturday 24 February from 9.30am to 3.00pm at Merredin Uniting Church, Fifth St, Merredin. Click here to download the flyer. A Safe Church Awareness Workshop will also be held on the same day at RockinghamRead more

I just couldn’t resist it. It looked so lonely on the plate. The fruit mince pie was almost whispering, “Eat me”.  The problem was, it wasn’t my first one. With my defences down and no one else looking, I yielded to temptation and polished off a second fruit mince pie. After the pleasure came pangsRead more

Rev Steve Francis, Moderator of the Synod of Western Australia shares his video Christmas Greeting for 2017. Read his full message here: Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, the head of the church. My name is Steve Francis. I am the Moderator of the Uniting Church in the Western Australian Synod. And I wantRead more

“Our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with songs of joy” (Psalm 126:2). Have you heard the one about a priest, a rabbi and a monk who walk into a bar? Religion and humour are often found together. A religion of any stripe can so easily take itself too seriously. Humour plays anRead more

After months of work, I am thrilled to announce we have our shiny new website at unitingchurchwa.org.au. This major project would not have been a success without our amazing web design agency, Start Digital, who folded their sleeves up high to design and produce our main site and 22 other Uniting Church Western Australia sites.Read more

  Wait a minute, hang on a second. Press the pause button. Behold. Every once in awhile, a word in the Bible pops out and seems to shout at me. Usually, I have passed over this word many times before and just missed it. Then out of the blue, the word stands out asking toRead more

  Mysterious, intricate, pulsing with energy…  The human body is an endlessly fascinating repository of secrets. The miracle of the skin, the strength and structure of the bones, the dynamic balance of the muscles… your physical being is knit according to a pattern of incredible complexity. So begins Philip Yancey’s description of the book heRead more

I once met someone who worked in a café in Iceland. She told me that one of the specialities of the café was pure water. It was bottled and labelled but the water did not come from a factory. The café owners simply filled the bottles from the pure mountain stream than ran behind theRead more