Current Letter Writing Actions
New Resrouces
JIM Cluster issues survey
Every year the JIM cluster asks what issues are import to you, our supporters, to help inform the direction of our work. Fill out this survey and return it to us to have your say.
Climate Adaptation
Communities everywhere are experiencing climate impacts like bushfires, floods, drought and extreme weather. Climate adaptation initiatives need to be highly localised and community-led, and this resource offers some pathways towards local solutions.
Sheet on draft proposals to the 2025 Synod meeting Oct 2024
This resource contains the proposals the JIM Cluster plan on brining to the 2025 Meeting of Synod (August 30th - Sept 2nd). We invite your feedback.
Social Justice Advent Resource
This resource is for congregations and faith communities seeking to include social justice content to their Advent services and activities.
Support Victorian Treaty
The First Peoples Assembly is inviting congregations to make a statement in support of the Treaty process in Victoria, to demonstrate to the Victorian Government that many Victorians continue to support the Treaty process.
Despite our institutions existing to protect equality, dissatisfaction with government and democracy is on the rise. With growing wealth inequality, wealth has become the primary factor denoting your ability to engage in the political system. This resource explores democratic reforms suggested by the JIM Cluster.
Ongoing Postcard Actions
e-mail JIM@victas.uca.org.au with a request for this postcard, your address and the number of postcards you would like.
Processed Foods
Food companies do not have our best interests at heart, yet they operate and market with less regulation than you might realise. These postcards will help raise the need for change.
e-mail JIM@victas.uca.org.au with a request for this postcard, your address and the number of postcards you would like.
Stop Fuel Credits
Stop the funding of harmful tax credits impacting our climate. Send an advocacy postcard to Treasurer Jim Chalmers to the End handouts to mining corporations for using fossil fuels.
e-mail JIM@victas.uca.org.au with a request for this postcard, your address and the number of postcards you would like.
Curtail the Myanmar Junta
Help us urge the Australian Government to apply additional sanctions in line with other allied countries to cut the flow of revenue to the Myanmar junta, and curb their attempts to suppress democracy and human rights.
e-mail JIM@victas.uca.org.au with a request for this postcard, your address and the number of postcards you would like.
Myanmar Imports Funding Violence
The Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE) is responsible for timber exports from Myanmar on behalf of the military junta, which provides the regime with a critical economic resource. Show your concern by asking MTE to be added to Australia’s sanctions list to condemn ongoing violent and lethal attacks against the people of Myanmar by the Military government.
e-mail JIM@victas.uca.org.au with a request for this postcard, your address and the number of postcards you would like.
Online Abuse
Online sexual abuse is a global issue. In the Philippines alone, 20% of internet-using children aged 12-17 years of age we victims of sexual exploitation in 2022. Abusers are located in places like Australia, and more can be done here to protect children everywhere. Help protect children by calling for reforms that make it easier to report and eliminate abuse material.
Resource Highlights
Week of Prayers for Peace and Justice in Israel
The theme for the World Council of Churches World Week for Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel is “Whatever you did… you did it for me” (Mt 25:40). Church organisations and people of faith are encouraged to participate with material prepared to be included in church services.
Language Around the War in Gaza
Picking sides in the Gaza war polarizes narratives around how the conflict is discussed. The issues are more complex than they are being described. This resource explores some key language being used.
Addressing Weight Stigma Related to Obesity
Weight and physical size have become a contemporary barrier to inclusion in our society, be it self or socially imposed. This resource acknowledges judgment as a legitimate barrier for people, and opens the issue of stigma up for discussion.
Slavery Resource
This resource explores Friday 23rd August 2024 as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Democratic Reform Resource
Despite our institutions existing to protect equality, dissatisfaction with government and democracy is on the rise. This resource explores what we can do.
JIM Convention 2024 ‘Food and Social Justice’ Flyer
The 2024 JIM convention explores issues from the role of food in our Christian communities, to the social justice implications of food in the economy, including modern slavery and climate change.
Qukes Boycott
Boycott Perfection Fresh by not buying Qukes, and take a stand again abuse in the workplace.
Refugee Week resource
Refugee Week is 16 - 22 June in 2024. A resource been developed by Council of Churches and the Uniting Church helps explore this year’s theme Finding Freedom: Family.
World Fair Trade Day Resource
World Fair Trade Day is Saturday 11th May in 2024. The day shines a spotlight on the transformative power of the Fair Trade business and its positive impact on people’s lives and communities.
World Environment Day Resource
World Environment Day is Wednesday 5th June in 2024. The date was chosen by the United Nations to highlight the protection and health of our environment as a major issue.
Reconciliation Week Resource 2024
Reconciliation is 27 May - 3 June in 2024. A national resource has been developed for the Uniting Church and helps explore this year’s theme Now More Than Ever.
Cookbook Committee
The PWMU cookbook is the oldest continuous cookbook in Australia, and has been in print since 1904. Royalties go to the mission and ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria and the Uniting Church in Victoria.
JIM Social Justice Calendar 2024
The annual social justice Calendar.
True Freedom – Modern Slavery Resource
True Freedom is a six-week course for Lent. It draws on themes from the book of Galatians and encourages individuals and churches to respond to modern slavery in their communities.
Feedback on social justice issues survey 2024
Each year we invite our supporters to tell us which issues they most want us to campaign with them on towards just outcomes. This is the findings of that invitation.
Theological Response to Family Violence
Through theological reflection, this resource helps explore how the Christian faith can and should challenge cultural assumptions around domestic violence, while at the same time being humble enough to admit its contribution to oppression.
My Picture Matters
AiLECS researchers are asking persons aged 18 and above to contribute photographs of themselves as children through the My Picture Matters crowdsourcing campaign. These pictures will be used to train AI models to recognise the presence of children in ‘safe’ situations, to help identify ‘unsafe’ situations, and potentially flag child sexual exploitation material.
Getting off gas for households
Eliminating the use of gas at home will play a role in future decarbonising efforts. This resource offers information on how to go about it.
Healthy food flyer
Vegkit.com offers some great tips on how to eat healthier for a better planet by reducing your greenhouse gas emissions associated with what we eat.
Sheet on draft Synod proposals 2023
The JIM Cluster often bring social justice proposals to meeting of Synod for discernment. Currently, two proposals are being seek endorsement: 1. Secure Work, and 2. Ethical Procurement and Investment.
Feedback on issues survey
Each year we invite our supporters to tell us which issues they most want us to campaign with them on towards just outcomes. This is what we were told.
Lent Event
UnitingWorld’s 2023 Lent Event is now available. 40 days of prayer, simplicity and generosity. Visit the website to access the prayer guide, Lent Event Challenge and the ability to donate to help fight poverty and injustice in partner communities.
WWF infographic food waste
WWF have prepared an infographic to help tackle food waste.
Reducing emissions through what you eat
We can help combat greenhouse gas emission through what we eat. This document is the rationale behind this argument.
Reducing emissions through reducing food waste
Tips on reducing Food waste.
Reducing Emissions from our diet
Information on reducing emission from our diet prepared by the Uniting Church Synod of NSW and ACT.
Reduce meat brochure from ARRCC
ARCC pamphlet on eating less meat as a way to alleviating climate change.
The Sin of Social Injustice Resource for Word Day of Social Justice
26 February 2023 world Day of Social Justice reflection by the Synod of WA.
The Uniting Church in Australia is committed to acting justly and compassionately in the world. We believe that our participation in God’s mission calls us toward the transformation that God desires for us all, marked by reconciliation, love, justice, peace, abundance and flourishing for all people and the whole earth. In Our Vision for a Just Australia, the Uniting Church in Australia has articulated its vision for a just, compassionate and inclusive nation in this updated 2021 statement and resource.
Previous Resource Highlights
Australia reMADE Report on Public Good
Connection. Care. Contribution. Three things that are the core of Australia reMADE finding in its report on what we want out of the Public Good in Australia.
Building the Uniting Church Refugee and People Seeking Asylum Network
The JIM Cluster is building a network of people working with refugees and people seeking asylum across Victoria and Tasmania in the Uniting Church.
Uniting Church Methodology in the Public Sphere
This document details how the JIM Cluster operates in the public sphere through its relationships with the media and social justice advocacy. Click to learn more about how the JIM cluster operates in pursuit of its work.
JIM Report to Synod
The Justice and International Mission (JIM) Cluster prepares a report on its activity for each meeting of the Uniting Church in Vic/Tas Synod. This document is that report made available to our supporters.
Federal Election Resources 2022
Based on the Uniting Church Assembly Resource ‘Our Vision for a Just Australia’, a resource for the upcoming federal election has been created to assist as you consider your vote. It also links to further information, and discussion points to being a conversation with your local candidate.
Democracy, Justice, and Allegiance: Some Theological Thoughts
Rev Dr Sean Winter, Pilgrim College, shares his thoughts on the church’s relationship with Democracy, and considers Christian engagement with the political sphere. Prepared in response to the 2021 JIM Convention.
GreenPower for Congregations
A resource for Congregations and individuals looking for more information about GreenPower, while offering a pathway to compare how energy retailers generate renewable energy.
Assessing Disinformation
The Christian faith is fundamentally concerned with questions of truth. In this new age of disinformation and ‘subjective’ truths, this resource offers to help sort through the noise and identify disinformation more easily.
Mentoring Refugees – Can you Assist?
Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia (CRSA) are looking for volunteers to take part in their Group Mentorship Program for refugees in Melbourne. This resource will tell you how.
Justice and International Mission
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