47th Synod Meeting Information

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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

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.

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

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

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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