Links that may be useful, (or lead you off on some good time spent on the internet)

This site is often being modified  - suggestions for other links welcome!
From time to time some links are broken - if you find one please advise.

This web site is hosted through the kind services of http://www.unitingchurch.org.au/ which provides a set of online services available at no or low cost to members of and agencies with the Uniting Church in Australia.

Uniting church in Australia

Regional: The Presbytery of Gippsland
The Uniting Church in the Presbytery Gippsland
Presbytery Facebook Page Click here

State: The Synod of VicTas Website
The Uniting Church in the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
Link to Crosslight Magazine   http://crosslight.org.au

National: Uniting Church Assembly Website
The National Assembly of the Uniting Church

Uniting Justice  http://www.unitingjustice.org.au/
Frontier Services in the Outback http://www.frontierservices.org/
Multicultural and Cross-cultural Ministry  http://www.assembly.uca.org.au/mcm/
UnitingWorld - our work overseas - http://www.unitingworld.org.au/
The United Aboriginal and Islander Congress http://www.uaicc.org.au/index.php

Some Social Justice issues
Rural Australians for Refugees (The Phillip Island Group meets at St John's)
supporting the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre http://www.asrc.org.
See also http://www.ajustaustralia.com/  and  http://www.getup.org.au/
Australian Parliamentary Library Asylum seekers and refugees. What are the facts.

Make Poverty History http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/

Micah Challenge http://www.micahchallenge.org.au/

Rubanga Youth Development Association (RYDA) Uganda. http://www.blackdouglas.com.au/ryda/
This group is supported by members at St John's Cowes.

Worship and Lectionary
Church Bible Reading Lectionary http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Australian paraphrases of the Bible   http://www.laughingbird.net/

Mustard Seeds http://seedstuff.blogspot.com/

Center for Action and Contemplation http://cac.org/

Taize Community http://www.taize.fr/en_article75.html

Iona Community Scotland http://www.iona.org.uk

John Ray Initiative - connecting Environment, Science and Christianity  http://www.jri.org.uk/

News Media Items
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Religion and Ethics Website   http://www.abc.net.au/religion/
Uniting Church Crosslight Magazine   http://crosslight.org.au

Progressive Christian Network
Explores the implications of critical biblical scholarship and emerging contemporary theologians. Explore new ways to understand Christianity   http://www.pcnvictoria.org.au/

Other things we involve ourselves in on Phillip Island
Penguin Parade http://www.penguins.org.au

Tourist Information site http://www.visitphillipisland.com/
or   http://www.visitbasscoast.com/

Suggest any other links and email info@cowes.unitingchurch.org.au

"Everywhere is within walking distance. . . if you have the time." 

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Cowes Uniting Church.   P.O. Box 600 (80 Chapel St). Cowes, Vic. Australia. 3922.   Ph: (+61) 0416 152 051 Email secretary@cowesuc.org.au