Our Aims:

  • To explore issues of solidarity and prayerful support

  • To give public recognition of one another’s church

  • To support UCA young people attending youth camps in Lebanon

  • To oversee responses to any crisis in the Middle East

  • To consider any potential support for graduates of NEST pursuing postgraduate studies at UTC / CSU

  • To facilitate and support academic links between NEST and UTC / Camden Theological Library

  • To assist in the planning of any exposure visits to Lebanon for ministers and students

  • To exchange journals – Uniting Church Studies and The Middle East Journal of Theology

  • To encourage UCA congregations to engage with their counterparts in Syria, Lebanon, Armenia – and to provide guidelines for such.