Covenanting
Covenanting Pathways Toolkit: A resource exploring how to practice Covenanting in Victoria and Tasmania
Covenanting is a special call to all Uniting Church members to form meaningful relationships between First and Second peoples based on truth-telling, justice, equality and mutual understanding.
This Toolkit and its supporting resources were designed for a Victorian and Tasmanian context to explore contemporary pathways to connect, or re-connect with Covenanting. You could do things like participating in one of the listed ‘Walking on Country’ tours, or attending an event run by one of the many First Nation led organisations across Victoria and Tasmania.
Use this Toolkit to get access to resources to better understand where opportunities exist to connect with First People Communities in Victoria and Tasmania. Or, perhaps use it to go deeper into your own understanding of the Uniting Church practices that inform how Covenanting is embedded in the life of the church.
Accompanying this toolkit are supporting resources in the form of four additional FAQs, and a cultural calendar that are accessible below.
- FAQ Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress
- FAQ Covenant and Covenanting
- FAQ Covenanting and Reconciliation
- FAQ Preamble to the Uniting Church of Australia Constitution
- Significant Dates for First and Second Peoples
Launched for Reconciliation week 2025 (May 27-3 June), consider how you and your community of faith might action some of the suggests during the month before NAIDOC week 2025 (July 6-13), and beyond.
Download the Covenanting Pathways Toolkit
Authorised by the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania’s Walking Together in Covenanting Committee.
Covenanting Guide: A Guide to the Church in Walking Together as First and Second Peoples – an invitation for 2021 onwards
The whole of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania is invited to engage more deeply into this journey of Walking Together as First and Second Peoples.
The key aspects of this journey are reflected in deep listening, creating and broadening of relationships between First and Second Peoples, taking responsibility for justice and truth telling, and ensuring that the voices of First Peoples are heard and respected within the leadership of the Church and its Councils.
The Journey of Walking Together as First and Second Peoples is our Synod’s expression of the Covenant between the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) and the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA).
The purpose of this Guide is:
- to continue to encourage one another and the Councils of the UCA to affirm and re-commit to the Covenant with the UAICC,
- to continue to encourage the building of relationships with local First Peoples communities where our Congregations, Presbyteries and Synod are located,
- to continue to educate the Church,
- to continue to encourage the Church to engage and deepen relationships between First and Second Peoples,
- to continue to inspire the Church to take action, make commitments and instigate change.
Prepared by the Covenanting Action Plan Working Group, under the auspices of the Synod of VicTas.