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Farewell Rev. Laurie Fitzgerald

Farewell Rev. Laurie Fitzgerald

Laurie retires after more than 17 years working to build and foster international partnerships between the Uniting Church in Australia and overseas Church Partners. He has a long and varied history working with the Church. He originally trained as a Congregational Minister in New South Wales serving in both Sutherland and Punchbowl..

  • Togo experience keeps Brisbane nurse grounded

    Rachel Miller, a nurse from Redcliffe in Brisbane, has just finished nearly two months of service as a volunteer on the world's largest charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, in the West African nation of Togo, one of the world's poorest countries.

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    On 21 June 2010 a giant scroll listing the names of thousands of Christians will be rolled out across the floor of the Great Hall of Canberra's Parliament House, in a striking Voices for Justice Signature Event.

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  • Catalogue helps TB client

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  • UnitingWorld supports church founders in East Timor to move onwards in ministry

    Support for this appeal will enable the founders of the IPTL, who have previously received little formal training, to train for effective ministry in their own context while avoiding the high cost of training overseas.

  • What a Stanza !

    Advance Australia Fair, Australia\'s national anthem, sung or played at national civic and sporting events has an unofficial additional verse whose origin is uncertain, but it was sung at Awakening, a Christian movement in Australia, (claiming the anthem has a missing verse with a distinctly Christian message), and during the Global March for Jesus in 1998 and also sung at World Youth Day 2008.

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    The School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary had a very interesting consultation in 2000 regarding mission language, metaphors and images. One of the documents is presented below and certainly food for thought.

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    Udyan Venkatesan wasn\'t always a Gospel for Asia-supported pastor. In fact, he wasn\'t even a Christian. He was raised in a place dominated by worship of false gods and goddesses. The home he grew up in had various shrines to deities that he and his family regularly worshiped.

  • Eradicating malaria no longer a distant dream: Australian campaign to get mosquito nets to every child in danger

    On the eve of World Malaria Day, new figures have revealed major progress in eradicating the disease which is killing a child every 30 seconds in sub-Saharan Africa alone.