We would like to share with our congregation that we will be holding a Day of Mourning Service on January 21st.
Please come along and take part in a service which acknowledges the adversity and struggles faced by our First Nations people.
“Since 2019 the Uniting Church has marked a Day of Mourning to reflect on the dispossession of Australia’s First Peoples and the ongoing injustices faced by First Nations people in this land. For those of us who are Second Peoples from many lands, we lament that we were and remain complicit.”
“As Christians, we hear the promise of Jesus that the truth will set us free. The Day of Mourning invites us to listen to the truth of the effects of colonisation and racism on First Peoples and to hope that in confronting this truth we will discover ways to create communities of justice and healing.”
(Quoted from Day of Mourning Resource, 2024, Uniting Church of Australia Assembly & Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress)