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From the developers of the Alpha Course, the Marriage Course is for couples who wish to enrich their life together. The Marriage Course is very practical, giving any married couple the tools to build a strong and healthy marriage that lasts a lifetime.

Over seven evenings spent together (including a candlelit dinner at a table for two), couples watch some entertaining video presentations about important issues that can get swept under the carpet in the rush of daily life, and they have opportunities to talk together privately about these issues in their own marriage. At Chapel Hill Uniting Church, the course is offered to participants at no cost.

The course will show you practical tools and approaches to help you: understand each other’s needs
communicate more effectively, grow closer through resolving conflict, heal the ways you’ve hurt each other
recognise how your upbringing affects your relationship, improve relationships with parents and in-laws
develop greater sexual intimacy, discover each other’s love languages and much, much more!

Privacy as a couple is always respected. There is no group discussion and no requirement to disclose anything about your relationship to anyone else.

Who is it for? The Marriage Course is for any couple who want to build a strong and lasting relationship, especially those in the first five years of their marriage or committed relationship; those at a challenging stage of their marriage, eg, the birth of a child, a career change, teenagers at home, the “empty nest” time; those struggling with issues in their relationship.

DATES OF THE COURSE: Seven Tuesday evenings from 8 October to 19 November 2019

To register interest please contact Ian and Helen Harris at: hlharris1281@outlook.com

A portable labyrinth will be set up in New Farm Park between the rotunda and the river on the evening of 6 November. The labyrinth will open to walkers at 6pm and close by 7.30pm.
Labyrinths are an ancient archetype that can be entered and walked. A slow circuitous path leads to a centre and back out by the same route. As our steps slowly follow the path, we are led gently in deep meditation, connecting us to ourselves, the land and the Divine.

The walk will be facilitated by the Rev Penny Jones, an accredited labyrinth facilitator, retreat conductor and Anglican priest. The event is free. Register to attend at https://www.trybooking.com/BFMIZ

For more information please call Penny on 0477444095.

14 – 16 November

Beenleigh Region Uniting Church
Cost: $60 (includes supper on Thursday and Friday, morning/afternoon tea and lunch on Saturday)

Thursday 14 November, 6pm – 8.30pm
Friday 15 November, 6pm – 8.30pm
Saturday 16 November, 9am – 5pm

This is a series of workshops that will look back to the theological and practical reasons why the Uniting Church made the statement “We are a Multicultural Church” and subsequent statements. It will explore different possibilities and models for people from different cultural groups to come together and worship in a mutually respectful way. This includes organisational models, ecclesiological models and property sharing. The workshop will also explore ways for people from different generations to understand each other and how each generation understands being church and how they see their faith growing.

While the workshop may pick specific cultural trends that relate to certain ethnic groups, the theory and method will be suitable to any situation where diversity exists, and we will have the opportunity to explore some of them.

For more information contact Levon Kardashian multicultural@southmoreton.org.au

For Such a Time as This: How can we be the church of Jesus Christ in a secular world?

Gospel Yarning will again inspire, empower and connect us. This event will significantly raise your understanding of how the context of secularism affects the church, and introduce tools for strengthening your ministry in that context. This affects the whole church.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Gospel Yarning 2019 is for:

• ministers,
• chaplains,
• deacons,
• presbytery workers, and
• ministry agents

in the Uniting Chuch in Australia and Uniting NSW/ACT.

WHAT WE’LL DO

We will meet to talk/talanoa/yarn in OIKOS groups, open space sessions, elective discussions and share our stories.

SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker: Rev Dr Peter Hobson, Wesley Mission Queensland / Albert Street UCA, Brisbane –
Formerly a local minister, university chaplain and lecturer, Peter is a good communicator, and a story-teller who is a good thinker about the world we seek to reach.

Theological Respondent and Comedian: Pastor Paul Montague.
One half of ‘Pirate Church‘, Paul knows how to tell us the truth about ourselves, make us uncomfortable like the Holy Spirit does, and helps us to see the road ahead.

CATERING

Includes lunch on each day of the conference.

MORE INFORMATION

www.ume.nswact.uca.org.au/event/gospel-yarning-201911

Fundamentals of Transitional Ministry Leadership will be held from 25–27 November, 9am–5pm daily at the Uniting Church Centre, 60 Bayliss Street, Auchenflower.

It is a three day course designed to up-skill and equip ministers and those in lay ministry with the skills to support congregations in times of transition or change as a community.

The course has three key foundations: understanding transition, systems theory, and family systems.

Who should do the course ?
People in lay ministry, people in ordained ministerial roles, on a pathway to ministry, presbytery staff and office bearers, and third phase of ministry participants.

Discoveries Camp – South Moreton Presbytery

12-16 January 2020

Bornhoffen PCYC Leadership Development Centre

Natural Bridge Qld.

For children who completed grades 3-6 in 2019

Discoveries Camp is a live-in 5 days of fun, packed with fantastic activities especially designed for children who will have just completed grades 3-6 in 2019. Trained and experienced leaders will facilitate a program that will keep campers engaged and able to enjoy 5 days of discovery and fun, through learning, making friends, trying new things and worshiping together. We are in for an exciting time, and hope that you can join us in our 29th Discoveries Camp! Time: from 2pm Sunday 12th – to Thursday 12pm January 2020.

We are inviting pre-registration before 27 September 2019. Numbers are restricted so register now and pay later after September.

Cost – Camper $310 pre-register before 27 September 2019 but PAY on invoice after September (multiple family sibling attending camp, 2nd 3rd etc. sibling attending may have $10 off each)

Cost – Leader $270 pre-register before 27 September 2019 but pay on invoice after September. Leaders: SLuRPS, LITs(Grade 10), Assistant Leaders Grade 11 & Leaders (Grade 12 & Adults)

Pre-register Online

Contact – Presbytery Office- Greg. compliance@southmoreton.org.au

Camp Contact: – Rev Beth Nicholls, Project Officer Mission 0407170573 mission@southmoreton.org.au