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Visit of Dave Andrews

Dave Andrews, author and mission activist, will be the keynote speaker at the SA Presbytery & Synod meeting on Saturday morning 27 February, Adelaide West Uniting Church, 9.00 am – 12.15 pm.
Dave will be speaking about “Plan Be: Be-Attitudes for 21st Century Disciples”. We are promoting Dave’s book, “Plan Be”, and accompanying study and personal [...]

The Way of Pilgrimage

Contemplative practices of spirituality have received strong attention in Western countries in the last few years. In the US, the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, headed by Mark Yaconelli, has focused on introducing Christian youth workers to classical spiritual disciplines.
The Upper Room has a long history in providing resource for spiritual growth, and in recent [...]

books you can borrow

I was recently quoted as saying that people learn in different ways, so churches need to provide a range of ways for people to learn and grow. Your church has some people, maybe a few, maybe a lot, who love to read. The average church library is rather scary, as cast-off for William Barclay Bible [...]

Educating Christians

“Educating Christians” is a site creating by the UCA in QLD to provide an A to Z of resources for discipleship. It’s an excellent site, so we’re creating a permanent link over on the right, and encourage you to check it out!
The site is not currently being updated, but it still contains lots of useful [...]

PLAN BE

Last year Christian social activist and development worker Dave Andrews published, Plan B, a small book exploring the Beatitudes and their invitation to Christians to live in the light of these teachings of Jesus. Subtitled “Be the change you want to see in the world”, the book explores Jesus’ eight “blessed are” statements. Andrews articulates [...]

“Simply Christian”

As a pastor of a congregation I like to keep my eye open for resources that help me to equip our people, not just in terms of discipleship, but in terms of understanding their faith and the relationship they have been brought into by God. I have recently completed the “Simply Christian” DVD course at [...]