Colouring Competition

Here is a brand new thing for our children. Each presbytery newsletter will have a colouring competition - we're starting it even though we haven't worked out all of the finer details. Download the image. Hover over the image for the download link -

Membership at Northside

On Sunday morning 9 October, Northside Mackay Uniting Church had a huge celebration. Pictured on the platform plus Eileen on the far right seat, 15 people transferred their membership to Northside and Barbara and Eileen confirmed their baptism. This celebration was, to a large extent, a

Safe Ministry Matters

Our presbytery newsletter is progressing every month and it would be fantastic to reach out further to the wider community with our news. The Communications team has been encouraging each congregation to nominate a journalist and photographer to capture activities and share with the rest of

Images and Copyright

It is a nightmare - you get all creative and you want to include images in newsletters, emails, invitations, advertising material - but where can you get free of cost, free to use, even free to modify good quality images? The good news is that there

Rockhampton Pentecost

Which church is the real church? Around 100 people from a broad cross section of churches gathered in St Joseph’s Cathedral in Rockhampton to celebrate Pentecost Sunday and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Ministers pastors and leaders from Pentecostal, Baptist, Anglican, Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist,

A Bushley Epilogue

The Bushley church was briefly reopened on June 6th 2022 to celebrate the life of Don Barnett. Don was one of the last “brick makers”. He carted bricks made by other members of the congregation for the building of the church. Don was a polymath.

Vale Rev Euan McDonald

With sadness, we reported the passing of Rev Euan McDonald in an earlier newsletter, promising to tell a little more at a later date. The following notes are gathered from some of the people Euan and Yvonne served at Iona West from 2004 to 2012. This reads