Lutheran and Uniting colleges present Festival of Learning

Adelaide-based colleges, Australian Lutheran College (ALC) and the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology (University of Divinity) worked ecumenically to deliver programs on the 2024 theme ‘Challenging Boundaries: Life at the edges’.

Uniting Church in Australia and Pacific churches

Resources: 'Theology of Disaster Resilience in a changing climate'  

UnitingWorld, Uniting Church in Australia's humanitarian agency, and Pacific churches have worked ecumenically in the Pacific to produce these resources which aim to aid communities and churches in examining resilience, preparedness, and suffering during disasters from a biblical perspective.

On the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, World Council of Churches' General Secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, has made a statement calling for prayer "...for the restoration of our humanity and morality."

International Women's Day 2024

On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, the podcast Australian Women Preach will celebrate three years of production and three years of raising women’s voices in preaching the Gospel! 

At their National Conference on 15 November 2023, members of Australian Church Women Inc. (ACW) from across Australia voted to make donations to two NCCA projects: the Ronald Wilson Ecumenical Leadership Fund and Martung Upah Appeal.

The organisation formally began in February 1965 when a constitution was ratified at the annual meeting of the then Australian Council of Churches.

Project Worker - Anglicare Mental Health Services

Anglicare has recently commenced a project to work closely with the Tamil community in Sydney to identify, co-design and implement solutions addressing the mental health issues affecting the community.

The position is part-time and located in Parramatta, NSW

Applications close: Thursday 28 March 2024

11th National Forum    

21 - 24 June 2024

"Messages of HOPE in a complex world" 

‘Let us hold on unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.’

HEBREWS 10:23

U CITY, 43 Franklin Street, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Registration is by invitation only.

A code is required to register online. Payment is made by credit card however a tax invoice can be raised upon request. Please contact the NCCA secretariat for details. E :This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.     

11th National Forum Documents

BACKGROUND READING 

Will be posted on a dedicated document web page and will be password protected. 

The Forum is where Member Churches gather to engage as a Council.  Through prayer, reflection, discussion, and discernment to renew the Council's purpose, activities, and focus for the next three years.  An exploration of the Forum theme, in the Australian context:		THE 11th National Forum is an opportunity to reaffirm the purpose of the NCCA to ensure that it continues to be a living and relevant expression of Ecumenism.
*Theme Exploration: If the life of churches in Australia lies together, then in word and deed we must be carriers of ‘Messages of Hope’. What is the role of the NCCA in this? What is it that the NCCA can uniquely undertake with the churches in Australia?  *Strategy Development: How do we live out our ecumenical life so that we are working together as churches to inspire positive change?  *Collaborative Efforts: How can we collaborate as churches to address challenges in spreading hope and foster innovative solutions to cultivate hope in our communities?		‘MESSAGES OF HOPE IN A COMPLEX WORLD' In the digital age, with an increasingly secular and individualistic society, how can churches together proclaim anew Jesus’ message of faith, hope and love?  How can churches build up communities by witnessing to unity through working together to create space for dialogue and engagement, collaboration and cooperation?
REV PROF DR JERRY PILLAY, WCC GENERAL SECRETARY   Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, 9th General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), is an Eminent Ecumenical guest at the NCCA Forum.  Rev. Pillay is a Reformed pastor, member of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and former Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.   Practical Details -  NCCA Forum 3pm Friday 21 June to 1pm Monday 24 June 2024   U-CITY  43 Franklin Street, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA		THE BASIS OF THE NCCA The NCCA gathers together in pilgrimage those churches and Christian communities, which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and commit themselves  i) to deepen their relationship with each other in order to express more visibly the unity willed by Christ for his Church, and  ii) to work together toward the fulfillment of their mission of common witness, proclamation and service to the glory of the One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. NCCA Constitution, 2016
BOOK: Please note that bookings are restricted to nominated representatives and a code is required to access the registration portal. Papers for the Forum: Will be available through the NCCA website and registrants will be advised how to access these. Accommodation: Should be booked separately. There are a number of hotels and apartments within walking distance to the U-CITY meeting.  For further information contact the NCCA Secretariat Office  02 9299 2215  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing."

Matthew 23:37 

Last week we entered into the season of Lent. This time of discipline and reflection is practiced across our differing church traditions in a variety of ways.

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As the three Abrahamic faiths prepare to observe Ramadan, Easter and Pesach, the World Council of Churches General Secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, has visited Palestine and Israel to advocate for a ceasefire and promote a just peace.