# Roundup: Community building, community garden, prayer for asylum seekers, suicide, women ministers, hunger report ,

> Struggling low-income families are seeking food assistance more often than unemployed households as soaring grocery, power and rent bills hit budgets hard, according to a major new report .

11 September 2012 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-community-building-community-garden-prayer-for-asylum-seekers-suicide-women-ministers-hunger-report/

## [Low-wage families go hungry says Foodbank End Hunger Report](https://www.news.com.au/money/cost-of-living/low-wage-families-go-hungry-says-foodbank-end-hunger-report/story-fnagkbpv-1226454678638)

Struggling low-income families are seeking food assistance more often than unemployed households as soaring grocery, power and rent bills hit budgets hard, according to a major [new report](https://www.foodbank.org.au/hunger-in-australia/the-endhunger-report/).

## [Women with a calling; church making history](https://hills-shire-times.whereilive.com.au/news/story/women-with-a-calling-church-making-history/)

History has been made in Castle Hill as the second female minister takes up her new role at Wesley Uniting Church.

## [Suicide. It’s no secret.](https://nosecret.org.au/)

So let’s break the silence – for life’s sake.

## [Justice for asylum seekers: a call to prayer](https://www.unitingjustice.org.au/refugees-and-asylum-seekers/information-and-action-resources/item/879-justice-for-asylum-seekers-a-call-to-prayer)

“I encourage you to be informed about the issues at stake here – the faith issues as well as issues of human rights, society and politics – so that you will be ready to contribute a Christian perspective to the conversation when this “barbeque stopper” comes up with your family, friends or colleagues.”

## [Neutral Bay Uniting Church garden for the community](https://mosman-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/church-plot-is-coming-together/)

The plot is starting to come together for Neutral Bay Uniting Church in its mission to bring the community together.

## [**Community Building Partnership program continued**](https://www.communitybuildingpartnership.nsw.gov.au/)

The Government has announced that the Community Building Partnership program will be conducted in 2012-13.