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OUR VISION:
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Work toward the
creation of a more whole society – reconciled and renewed – through meeting
human needs, and healing the hurts caused by separation, injustice,
oppression and disadvantage.
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OUR GOAL: |
To seek and provide opportunities to
involve Pilgrim and share God’s grace with the
wider community and to raise awareness and promote a response to particular
local and global needs.
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PRIORITY
GOAL
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To offer opportunities to
address the needs of people in our local area, especially those on
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OUR MISSION AREAS:
We, as Pilgrim Uniting Church Doncaster, provide outreach and justice
support which is limited by our corporate resources.
In listing the specific corporate Pilgrim mission areas
and initiatives below, we also acknowledge that,
as a valid expression of Pilgrim's
Outreach and Justice vision and goals, in these and many other
compatible areas, many Pilgrim members are working
individually and with organisations to achieve our
Outreach and Justice vision and goals.
Where it is sought by our members,
Pilgrim responds with support which therefore
extends beyond those areas and initiatives which
we name specifically.
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Retirement Villages, Hospitals & Nursing Homes
Pilgrim provides support to Melaleuca Lodge and Roseville Apartments through
regular worship opportunities offered by our ministry team. Our Westcare
Ladies Group makes gifts, such as flower posies, for patients in the Donvale
Rehabilitation Hospital. The Westcare Group also combined with friends from
Roseville Apartments to make a large number of clothing items for AIDS
affected babies overseas. At Christmas, our Focus Group visits Roseville Apartments for an
evening of shared entertainment. As
their outreach project for 2011, the
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School Chaplaincy
Pilgrim continues to assist
funding of the well-established Access Ministries' Chaplaincy at Templestowe College and
the new Access
Ministries' Chaplaincy at Doncaster College. In 2010, Pilgrim, with
the support of other churches in Manningham, staged a successful
fund-raising concert for both chaplaincies featuring the "Voices for Hope".
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Kids Hope Mentoring Program
Kids Hope is a World Vision program in which a mentor from a local
church spends one hour per week with a primary school student whom the
school and parents believe might benefit from the friendship of the mentor.
A team from Pilgrim mentors students at Milgate Primary School, Doncaster
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UnitingCare
Pancake Day
Pancake Day is an
initiative of UnitingCare - a community support agency of the Uniting
Church. Pilgrim has participated in this event for the past
seven years. In 2011, we held a Pancake Day Tea at the Pilgrim Church Centre. This event aimed to
increase awareness of the work of UnitingCare as well as to raise
funds in support of people doing it tough in the
local community.
Click to see pictures of our
Pancake Day Tea at Pilgrim on 8 March 2011 |
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Manningham Churches Working Together
Pilgrim joins with several other
Christian churches in Manningham, Manningham Rotary and the City of
Manningham to stage a Family Festival prior to
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City of Manningham's “Carols by
Candlelight” Christmas event
at Ruffey Lake Park.
Click to see more
pictures of the Family Festival held on 17 December 2010 |
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Doncare
At Christmas, Pilgrim collects
food items for distribution by the community services agency, Doncare, to
struggling members of
the Manningham community. Pilgrim members also assist in
the packing of Christmas hampers.
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Manningham Inter-Faith Network
The Manningham Inter-Faith
Network is a bringing together of people from the Baha’i,
Buddhist,
Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish and Sikh faith traditions in the City of
Manningham to promote respect, harmony and the understanding of each other’s
beliefs and to live together in peace and goodwill. The
Pilgrim congregation supports this initiative.
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LinC
Manningham
Pilgrim continues to support LinC
Manningham's Christian volunteer outreach program with an annual donation towards administration and Christmas food gifts. LinC works closely with government-funded
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Reconciliation Manningham
Several members of the Pilgrim congregation are members of
Reconciliation Manningham. Pilgrim supports Reconciliation Manningham with a
donation towards indigenous education programs in local schools and the
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Bushfire Relief
The Pilgrim Patchworkers Group have crafted a number of quilts for young people
affected by the bushfires that ravaged Victoria early in 2009.
Click to see more pictures of the
quilts.
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Melbourne Metropolitan & Regional Victoria
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Woomelang
Uniting Church Partnership
Pilgrim
has a special partnership with Woomelang Uniting Church in the Mallee.
Click for
details
of our partnership with Woomelang
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Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project
Pilgrim
supports the Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project through an annual donation
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Indigenous Hospitality House
Pilgrim supports the Church of
All Nations Indigenous Hospitality House in Carlton with an annual donation.
The House provides temporary accommodation for indigenous families from the
country when they are visiting another family member in hospital.
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Siev X National Memorial
In October 2001, the Siev X refugee boat sank in
international waters on its way to Australia. Three hundred and fifty-three
people drowned, the majority of them women and children. Pilgrim participated in this
project by painting a pole that was sent to Canberra to form part of the memorial
event on 15 October 2006. We also painted
three additional poles that were placed in the Pilgrim Church grounds. A short service
of dedication of these poles took place on 8 October 2006.
Click to see
our SievX project pictures
In 2007, the
6th
anniversary of the Siev X tragedy,
permission to erect the Siev X National Memorial
for six weeks at Weston Park, Yarralumla, was
granted by the ACT Government, and the Federal National Capital Authority.
As of 1 September 2008, the Memorial in Weston Park
was still standing (click
to see Siev X Memorial pictures).
For more information and
pictures of the Siev X National Memorial visit www.sievxmemorial.com
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Overseas
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Christmas Bowl
Pilgrim is a keen supporter of the National Council of Churches in Australia's
(act for peace) Christmas Bowl Appeal which provides emergency assistance, injustice
response and development and poverty reduction programs to
disadvantaged people in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and Australia.
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Lent
Event 2011
Lent Event is a
God-inspired vision that invites Australians to re-evaluate their lifestyles
while helping some of the world’s poorest people in the 40 days up to
Easter. Funds raised by Pilgrim's participation in Lent Event 2011 will
support UnitingWorld development projects in Papua New Guinea,
West Timor, South India, Fiji and Phippines.
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SAMMY
Stamps
Our
Westcare Ladies Group collect and prepare used stamps as part of the Uniting
Church Adult Christian Fellowship's SAMMY Stamp program that raises funds
for local, national and overseas humanitarian projects.
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Micah
Challenge
Pilgrim supports
the Micah Challenge - a global Christian campaign which aims to deepen our
understanding of justice issues and our engagement with the poor as an
integral part of our faith. The campaign works with the largely secular
Make Poverty History campaign to make poverty history by
encouraging our leaders to halve global poverty by 2015 through achieving
the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG's).
For more on the Micah Challenge go to
http://www.micahchallenge.org.au
For more
information on the Make Poverty History campaign go to
http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/home.html
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Fair
Trade
Pilgrim
supports fair trade by ordering Fairtrade tea, coffee and other products for
church kitchen use and for sale to congregational members.
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Vanuatu
Eye Project
Pilgrim
supports the Uniting World and Rotary Vanuatu Eye Project by
collecting used spectacles for recycling.
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