Prayer Points Ministry Team Preparations for Synod meeting and all who will attend Students completing assignments, sitting exams, taking a break Families on school holidays Refugees & Asylum Seekers Community programs providing support BUC News Refugee Week We hosted an inspiring exhibition during Refugee Week, [...]
During Refugee Week, 16th-23rd June, Brunswick Uniting Church was privileged to host the works of Naser, an artist in detention, supported by Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers, Migrant Mothers from the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre and Johnny Salameh, winner of the Judges Prize at the Sacred Edge Festival in Queenscliff for his installation 'Dictator'. On World [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Living God, You are with us and among us. You come to meet us, with arms open wide to embrace us. We find you in unexpected places: we only need to look and we can see you. Jesus refugee, You know what it is to be displaced, to be [...]
A reflection on what the bible says about refugees for Refugee Sunday. The Painting above is by Naser Moradi a refugee living in Broadmeadows Detention Centre. See his work here. Follow this link to an article listing many of the refugee characters in the bible including the passages that describe their displacement. Here are a some of [...]
'Migrant Mothers: Moreland' was a five month community art project for 50 migrant women in the City of Moreland. The project provided several free scratch board art workshops run at community centres in order to create artworks as well as a collaborative zine for distribution to the local community. The project encouraged social creativity [...]
"Please open your heart and the door of this cage. Life is not forever and our time to be young is very short. We are Human Just Like you, and we also wish to know freedom. Thank you." Naser . How can I get Freedom? Please ... Open your heart And open [...]
The Dictator Johnny Salameh Artist’s statement The Dictator is made from Ready made objects ( suitcases and chair). My artwork expresses the dictator as the person who sits carelessly above the miserable momentum below, person who sat insensitively on the loves of others. As a Syrian I understand the momentum, dislocation, chaos and indeed [...]
Brunswick Uniting Church currently has a couple of vacancies in our Student House Program. For over 20 years we have supported tertiary students from outside Melbourne in their move to Melbourne for study. We have two houses, side-by-side, with 5 rooms in each. It's an intentional, supported community connected to Brunswick Uniting Church. Find [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team BIUC Congregation Fiona – MoD candidate UnitingCare ReGen D&E Committee Presbytery Representatives – Kate and Jamie Student House Program Community Ministry Love Makes a Way Food Co-op CTM Our planet & all she holds BUC News July Olive Branch The July edition [...]
World Wide Knit in Public Day 2019 On the 8thof June, hand knitters around the world gathered in groups to knit in public. But why? It all started eight years ago, when a woman named Danielle Landis broke the isolation of knitting alone and encouraged people to knit together as a community. By doing [...]