Casuarina Uniting Church

The Christmas Bowl Appeal is our Mission Focus for December and we will be receiving a special offering for it at Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. The money raised goes to “Act of Peace”. The international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia which has undergone many transformations since its inception [...]

Praise the Lord  John’s work we asked you to pray about last month is progressing well so far.  He is pleased with the progress he is making.  Kay’s studies are also going well, and she is getting some outstanding results.  Joseph, Deborah and Angela have settled well into school since returning from Kenya.  We were [...]

Our Mission Focus for October is Opportunity International Australia which exists to provide opportunities for people living in poverty to transform their lives.  With over 40 years experience in microfinance and support services, it uses a business approach to solve poverty. Rather than a hand-out, it provides clients with a loan as small as $100 [...]

John and Kay Symons, who we support financially each month, are now on leave from their work in Kenya.  John Symons sent the following message from Melbourne during last week: John is currently doing a lot of writing on a large project for which he did a lot of interviewing in the last few weeks [...]

John Symons  has sent the following message, this time from Melbourne. Greetings friends.  Thank you for praying with us. PRAISE THE LORD  We are all together in Australia.  It’s good to be all together as a family again.  We are delighted that god intervened to ensure all our paperwork was completed in Kenya before we [...]

One of the great initiatives of Frontier Services is Outback Links, a program that our own Nell Livingstone and Bev and Paul Quinn are involved in. This story is from a couple called Edna and Arnold.  Arnold read an appeal advertisement in Frontier News, wanting volunteers for Outback Links, a new initiative of the Uniting [...]

The fund-raising event last Saturday for Frontier Services was an excellent time.  So far over $2600 has been received and will be added to our Mission Focus offering on Sunday 28th August. I really enjoyed seeing so many people working together and having a good time while washing cars, cooking food, painting faces, selling clothes [...]

Frontier Services is an agency of the Uniting Church and is our Mission Focus for August.  Here is some of its history: In the late 19th Century, the Christian churches became increasingly concerned about people living in the Outback, and Congregational ministers began “travelling out” to remote areas in the 1890s.  The Smith of Dunesk [...]

This Saturday is our special fund-raising afternoon and evening for Frontier Services. It begins at 4pm with items for sale, car wash and fun for the kids. The barbeque starts at 5pm and there will be bush-dancing after that.  It’s a good opportunity for us to support the great work done in remote areas of our [...]