Events

STAND UP Against Poverty
Create to advocate '08
Holistic Witness course

STAND UP Against Poverty

Australian churches can STAND UP Against Poverty and be part of a Guinness World Record

Next month, your church community can join people from more than 100 countries and be a part of something big.

STAND UP is a unique global mobilisation that involves people from all nations and all walks of life who STAND UP together in workplaces, schools, churches and at public events to symbolise their unity and commitment to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY.

Last year, a world record 43.7 million people participated in STAND UP events, with 107,000 Australians joining millions across the globe in the "largest single coordinated movement of people".

In 2008, the STAND UP Guinness World Record attempt takes place over one week covering all global time zones. Event and participant numbers are registered and tallied with all participant numbers forwarded to Guinness World Records to enable official world record holder achievement.

Get involved:

Your church can participate in STAND UP at or after your church service on Sunday 19 October or hold your own STAND UP event in your community or youth group anytime between 9am Friday 17th October - 11.45pm Sunday 19th October 2008.

This "How to STAND UP at Church Guide" and the "How to STAND UP Toolkit" includes everything you need to know about organising or participating in a STAND UP event.

Take a stand and help Make Poverty History.
makepovertyhistory.com.au/standup

Multimedia:
Check out this STAND UP video and use it to inspire others to get involved.

Create to Advocate 08: 14 October 07 – 29 August 08

Art Competition and Exhibition
Parliament House, Canberra
6 October – 2 November 2008

Official Opening : Tuesday 14 October 2007
Entries Close: 29 August 2008
To enter: Click here to download an entry form
Entry fee: $20 ($10 for unwaged)

Create to Advocate invites Australian artists to express a vision to end global poverty and to reflect on and speak out on achieving the Millennium Development Goals, including access to clean water, reducing child mortality, achieving basic health care, empowering girls and action on climate change!

Selected artworks will be presented in a month long public exhibition at Parliament House, Canberra during October 2008. The official opening will be in Anti Poverty week and a feature of Micah Challenge’s National Gathering and Lobbying Trip, Voices for Justice.

Works can be in any medium, including paint, pencil, photography, multimedia, sculpture and textiles. Artists gain the exciting chance of high profile exposure, selection for future campaign promotions and Micah Challenge Artist Awards and prizes.

Micah Challenge Art Awards:
1st prize $1,000
2nd prize $500

Micah Challenge Student Art Award (Under18):
1st prize $500
2nd prize $250

To download the postcard flyer, click here.

If you are interested in ordering hardcopies of the postcard flyer or in joining the artists email list, contact C2A@micahchallenge.org.au

Holistic Witness Course

This is a twelve week course that will be taught by Ross Langmead (teacher in Mission Studies at Whitley College). This unit will provide biblical and theological understandings of mission. It will also examine the practice of mission in local and cross-cultural settings.

Time: 6-9pm, Tuesday evenings from July 22 - October 21
(with a break from September 15 - 28)
Venue: Whitley College (Himbury Studies Centre, 50 The Avenue, Parkville)
Cost: $698 for full academic credit- undergraduate (fee-help loan may be available), $936 for full academic credit- graduate/ postgraduate or $200 to audit (sit in on classes without assessment)

To register call Rosemary Dillon on 03 9340 8017.

Click here (PDF: 388 KB) to download a PDF of course details.