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March 19, 2025

Please see our latest edition of the Northern Synod News – March 2025

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Northern Synod News – February 2025
Northern Synod News – January 2025
Northern Synod News – December 2024
Northern Synod News – November 2024
Northern Synod News – October 2024
Northern Synod News – September 2024
Northern Synod News – August 2024
Northern Synod News – July 2024


47th Synod Meeting Information

March 17, 2025

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Moderator Elect
Acting Moderator announcement
Moderator Elect Paper
Moderator Elect Process

Nomination Forms
Synod Standing Committee Nomination Form
One (1) Synod Membership Nomination required

Finance and Property Services Committee Chairperson Nomination form
FAPS Chair Nomination required

Finance and Property Services Committee Nomination Form

Property Trust Chairperson Nomination Form
Property Trust Chair Nomination required

Property Trust Nomination Form
Three (3) Property Trust Membership Nominations required

NT Council of Churches Nomination Form

Proposal Form

47th Synod Meeting Handbook
Assembly Report to the Northern Synod
UAICC Report to the Northern Synod

47th Synod Proposals Handbook 

47th Synod Financial Reports 

Minutes

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Moderator’s Christmas Message

December 18, 2024

Dear friends,

Please find link to the Northern Synod Moderator’s Christmas message for 2024 here.

Or view video version on YouTube or on Northern Synod Facebook (11 minutes).

Best wishes for a happy Christmas.

Grace and Peace.

The best is yet to come,

Tony

 


The Northern Synod and the Northern Regional Council of Congress (NRCC) mourn the passing of the highly respected and much-loved leader and elder Rev. Dr. Gondarra OAM.

June 25, 2024

With deep sadness, we mourn the passing of Rev. Dr. Gondarra OAM, a giant in the life of the Uniting Church and Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress and a revered Yolŋu leader. We give thanks for his incredible contribution to our journey of reconciliation, his unwavering compassion for his people and his deep insights into the God who walks with us all.
See below a shared statement from National Congress Chair Rev. Mark Kickett and President of the Uniting Church

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Moderator’s Easter Message 2024 – New Life

March 25, 2024

Rev Tony Goodluck, serves as the Moderator of the Northern Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. In this 2024 Moderator’s Easter Message he reflects on the everyday inbreaking of the resurrected Christ into what might seem to be mundane everyday events. Moderator Goodluck suggests that it is in encountering the hope of new beginnings in our day to day lives that Christ comes to us, often unrecognised. He encourages us to live with open hearts so that we might

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Northern Synod MODERATOR’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2023

December 21, 2023

GOD IS WITH US – IN THE LIVING STORY – THROUGH THE LIVING WORD

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The fourth Sunday in Advent falls on December the 24th this year.  The Lectionary Readings include 2 Samuel 7: 1-11, 16 ‘God’s Covenant with David’ and Luke 1: 26-38 ‘The Birth of Jesus Foretold’.  Two great stories of two unlikely candidates, being David the shepherd-boy-become-king; and Mary, the teenage mother of Jesus.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing in the lives of these two reasonably unremarkable

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Tribute to Mr G Yunupingu

May 19, 2023

TRIBUTE TO MR G YUNUPINGU

As family and friends engage in ceremonies and protocols for an appropriate farewell for Mr G Yunupingu, the Uniting Church in Australia (Northern Synod) and the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (Northern Region) add our words of respect and tribute to the great Yolŋu leader.

Click on the heading or link to read our tribute.

Moderator’s Pastoral Note_2023_0417_Mr G Yunupingu


Moderator’s Easter Message 2023 – ‘Hold On’

April 3, 2023

MODERATOR’S EASTER MESSAGE 2023             ‘HOLD ON’

   

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Where do you go to refresh your soul?  What do you do to get in touch with the deep parts of your inner being?  Some of us like to walk; ’ find beautiful places in nature.

 

As I think about Easter this year I think about refreshment; I think about

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Easter Service Times

March 28, 2023

Alice Springs                                                                                                                                            Good Friday 7th April at 3pm       

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