Welcome to the SACC ...
ADVISORY NOTICE
Website no longer updated
SA Council of Churches wishes to advise that this website is no longer being updated, due to technical difficulties.
All existing links remain functional.
We are seeking to establish a new website as soon as possible, and will notify all through E-News, and here, when available.
May peace surround you and be in you,
South Australian Council of Churches
65 Flinders Street, Adelaide SA 5000
M: 0477 019 163
E:
Listening, Learning, & Loving in the Way of Christ – as churches together in South Australia
SACC acknowledges traditional custodians who have cared for this land for centuries.
We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging across the many Nations of this Country.
Meetings of SACC General Council
Dates for your diary
More detailsReceptive Ecumenism: Listening, Learning and Loving in the Way of Christ
This book is a response to the growing recognition of Receptive Ecumenism as a concept and process that has the potential to bring about renewal, reform and greater flourishing, both from within denominations as well as across the Church universal.
More information and purchase details at https://atfpress.com/product/receptive-ecumenism/
Ecumenical Landscape of SA Council of Churches: April 2018
Ecumenical Landscape (printable version)
Ecumenical Landscape (online reading version)
Receptive Ecumenism
Healing Gifts for Wounded Hands: The promise and potential of Receptive Ecumenism - a booklet to assist us all in the way of Receptive Ecumenism: updated
For other Receptive Ecumenism resources, see here.
Fifth International Receptive Ecumenism Conference: 2020
Save the Date!
Call for papers will be sent out during the first quarter of 2019. More information.
Relationships, Renewal and Reform on the Ecumenical Journey
Annual General Meeting, Saturday 27 October 2018
Reimagining our Unity in Christ through Receptive Ecumenism
For use by any church council, agency, synod, diocese etc. Feel free to adapt to suit your context. The approach is from the perspective of Receptive Ecumenism.
This process has been developed through the South Australian Council of Churches (SACC) in conversation with others, and modified and enhanced following use in a variety of contexts. The aim of the process is to nurture a receptive disposition and to lead people into a meaningful engagement with Receptive Ecumenism with its potential to draw any church body into inner conversion and a deeper encounter with Christ.
Download document: Reimagining our Unity in Christ through Receptive Ecumenism (120 kb)
Ecumenical Bequest to assist in the work of Refugees and Displaced Persons
More information
Relationships, Renewal and Reform
Receptive Ecumenism Mini-Conference , 28 July 2018, 9am-4pm
More informationEcumenical Partnership in the Mission of Christ
SACC Response - March 2018.
Formation and Education for Leadership in Ecumenism in the Spirit of Christ
Insights and LearningsLetter to Inter Church Councils (May 2018) from SACC Community for Local Ecumenism
LetterGrowing Together in Discipleship: Journeying Together in Mission
General Meeting - Saturday 28 April 2018
Summary for NewslettersReceptive Ecumenism: Fourth International Conference
Leaning into the Spirit: discernment, decision-making and reception
SA Council of Churches is wondering…
What is the gift that your church committee, board, council etc has received from another tradition and integrated into the life and mission of your church?Whose is the voice that raises the ecumenical question on your committees, boards, councils etc regarding pastoral care & decision-making?
Stories on the Ecumenical Journey
Read StoriesA Lenten Pilgrimage to the Heart: May we be always ready to give up what we cannot keep in order to gain what we cannot lose
SA Council of Churches invites all who downloaded and/or used the Resource during Lent to send insights and reflections to Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2018 c/- Geraldine Hawkes at sacc@picknowl.com.au. This will assist the preparation of future resources.
Graduation Address: University of Divinity
More information and a copy of the address, entitled Gifts of Ecumenism in, with and for our world, focussing on love and humility, can be found on Receptive Ecumenism page.SA Council of Churches News
SACC Executive gathered on 30 January 2018 for an extended conversation in on SACC’s Core Purpose & Priorities, and the relationship of Member Churches towards one another through SACC. Some aspects that emerged for action during 2018 can be found here.Religious Freedom Review: Resource
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet invited the local Christian leaders who had prepared a Religious Freedom Resource to meet with the Expert Panel on Tuesday 27 February 2018, as part of the Expert Panel’s face-to-face consultations in Adelaide.
More information
More information
Praying for Peace in the Holy Land
Domestic Violence
Handbook for Clergy and Pastoral Workers.
Recognition, Reconciliation and Relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the churches in South Australia
See Uluru Statement from the Heart
Healing our Broken Life: Living More Fully our Love and Unity in Christ - in, with, and for our world
Insights & Reflections on the visit of Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary, World Council of Churches to South Australia on 14 October 2016.Greetings from the General Secretary
Port Pirie Diocesan Assembly 2017 - Building Bridges of Peace (500 years since the Reformation)
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: 29 November 2016
See Father Raed's message here.SACC 70th Birthday Celebrations Saturday 29 April 2017
A Vision - 70 years from now
Outline [Agenda] of the celebrations
Reflections - for sharing in your newsletters together with your own reflections and photos
Image and reflections by Heshmat Keroloss
Presentation on the day (available until 21 December 2017)
Photos of the day
Prospects and Challenges for the Ecumenical Movement in the 21st Century
Insights from the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute [GETI]
Information hereMagill Inter Church Council celebrates 70 years of ecumenism
To celebrate 70 years of ecumenism in South Australia, Magill Inter Church Council (MICC) sponsored an “ecumenical historical walk” on Sunday 15 October 2017. Photo and more... the Council of Churches in South Australia.
South Australian Council of Churches - nurturing and nourishing the understanding, spiritual growth and practice of ecumenism across the Churches of South Australia.