Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Mackay and Whitsunday Life

ZIMBABWE CHURCH LEADER RETURNS TO MACKAY

Everyone is invited to hear the Rev. Dr Solmon Zwana, National Chaplain to Zimbabwean Methodists in Australia and Oceania, speak at meetings at St Paul’s Uniting Church on 2-4 June and on Sunday 4 June when he will preach at a combined service at 9.15am at St Paul’s Uniting Church and at 2.15pm at Calen Uniting Church. Dr Zwana will also speak at St Paul’s on Friday 2 June at 7pm.

‘The Uniting Church is your church,’ says Solmon to Methodist Zimbabweans looking for the Methodist Church in Australia. At church union in 1977, the Methodist Church of Australasia joined the Uniting Church in Australia, so when migrants come to Australia looking for their church, they can struggle to find it. ‘The Methodist Church continues in the Uniting Church.’ The Uniting Church is also the continuing church of Reformed and Congregational Churches around the world and encourages migrant members of all three churches to join their local Uniting Church and to contribute to its life.

The program includes the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal launch, a day trip to Eungella, a Mackay Churches Together social, a combined service on Sunday led by Zimbabwean church members and the Mackay Zimbabwean community and a pleasant Sunday afternoon at Calen. Everyone is welcome to join us! For more information contact the Rev. Dr Julia Pitman on 0411 094 185.

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