Deepening our Covenant: Muth arrak Campaign

A fundraising invitation to our church community, in partnership with First Peoples leadership

Dear Church friends 

During National Reconciliation Week, we’re invited to listen deeply, learn truthfully, and take practical steps together. This year’s theme is All in for Reconciliation — and we’re grateful to launch the Muth arrak Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leaders Campaign in that spirit.

As the Uniting Church we are enriched through our relationships with First Peoples, and we are called to be a church shaped by justice, truth-telling and reconciliation.

We’re asking you to partner with us to raise funds that will equip First Peoples young adults and youth across our church to grow into emerging leadership roles: in their congregations, communities, and across the wider Uniting Church.

One of the most practical ways we can honour Elders is by investing in the next generation - walking alongside young people as they discover their gifts, deepen their faith, and serve with confidence. Your support will strengthen young adult and youth ministry and help remove barriers to training and formation, mentoring, and life-giving connection.

Will you partner with us? Your gift will help young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders access formation opportunities such as conferences, leadership programs, chaplaincy and pastoral care training, and community-building experiences like Easter Madness.

Importantly, this fund will be managed through Muth arrak Ministries. Aboriginal leaders will guide the priorities and decide how funds are distributed, ensuring support is culturally strong, relational, and directed where it will make the greatest difference.

If you’d like a simple overview of what we do and why it matters, you can listen to the short Muth arrak explanation here. 

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A glimpse of the difference your gift can make:

"As young fellas and women, we are still growing in our faith and maturing in our relationship with God so it will be good to get that mentorship and guidance from a youth pastor" - Lachlan

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What your donation could support 

• $55 – helps cover travel or meals so a young person can attend a local gathering or mentoring day.
• $150 – contributes to resources and registration for a training workshop or leadership day.
• $300 – supports one young person’s attendance at Easter Madness, a formative faith and community experience.
• $1,000 – supporting attendance at the UAICC Young Adults Conference (21–24 January 2027, led by the Assembly President)
• $3,000 – contributes to equipping in pastoral care and chaplaincy training.
• $5,000 – provides an annual scholarship for the Five Stones Leadership Program.

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A simple example of partnership 

Recently, Indooroopilly Uniting Church chose to contribute a Sunday tithe of $800 to support this work – a generous act that helps create real opportunities for young people to step forward and lead.

Whether you give as an individual, a family, a small group, or as a whole congregation, your partnership says to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders: we see you, we believe in you, and we will walk in friendship with you.

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How to give