Events

Mending Our Social Fabric: Learning from Palestinian and Israeli Women Peacebuilders   Riman Barakat - Is a veteran peacebuilder and social entrepreneur from East Jerusalem. She currently serves as the co-CEO of FeelBeit, an Israeli-Palestinian cultural centre on Jerusalem’s East-West boundary that harnesses the transformative power of the arts to bridge divides, foster dialogue, and…

Join us for the 2025 Women Intercultural Conference (WIC), a three-day gathering to empower, equip, and enrich Intercultural women in ministry and leadership. This event will include: ·         Inspiring keynote speakers ·         Small-group discussions ·         Interactive workshops ·         Networking across communities and generations   Tickets are only $60, covering all three days at all three…

Exploring Preaching in the UCA An online course for anyone who wants to learn how to Preach in the UCA. Exploring Preaching in the UCA has been created around the Preaching Competencies from the “Assembly Standards and Competencies for the Formation and Education for the Specified Ministry of Lay Preacher”. So, those training for the ministry of Lay…

Discernment Day  Come and see …   An opportunity to learn about discernment, discipleship and ministries in the Uniting Church, and pathways into lay and ordained ministries. • Meet UCA Ministry agents and learn about their different roles and contexts • Discover educational pathways for discipleship and ministries • Learn about the Period of Discernment and ministry pathways • Consider…

You are warmly invited to join Sally Douglas for the launch of Rewilding Prayer: God Beyond Gender, Faith Beyond Formulas.   5pm Monday 1st December 2025 Yuma Auditorium, Centre for Theology and Ministry 29 College Crescent, Parkville RSVP Wednesday 26 November.   Rev Salesi Faupula, Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria…

The VICTAS Synod Intercultural Forum invites you to attend the SIF annual general meeting. This is a great opportunity to support the multicultural ministries and intercultural leadership within the Synod.  You will find plenty of chances to make new friends in ministry, catch up with colleagues and friends, worship and praise together, and engage in Talanoa…

Talanoa 2026 will be a platform for folx to talanoa (tell storied realities, invite conversations, explore ways forward) around the “arts of negotiation” in/from their life situations, and to unpack the “gifts in negotiation” for their communities and for the rest of us.   The theme for this conference is “negotiation,” and there will be…

In 2016, a group of six people from the VICTAS Synod visited Korean partner churches. After a decade I’m privileged and moved to organise another group of young people to South Korea.   They’ll learn about Australian mission work and its missional ties between the two countries.   This 7-day intensive group tour visits 3 Korean…

The Narrow Bridge Free Film screening and Discussion A story of loss, courage and human connection   When: Tuesday 30 June, 7 pm – 9 pm Where: Essendon North Uniting Church, 132 Keilor Road, Essendon North   “The Narrow Bridge” follows four individuals whose lives have been shattered by conflict in the Middle East –…