Contact Details
Morialta Community Centre
26 Chapel Street MAGILL SA 5072
Email: office@morialtauca.org.au
Telephone:8331 9344
Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm
Morialta Community Centre supports a broad raft of activities. Many have been developed in response to specific identified need, some cater for lifestyle interests, while others offer social networks or provide learning opportunities.
Engaging with our Community Centre may involve attending one of our activities, belonging to one of our partner programs, participating in a group that meets in one of our spaces or making use of our student accommodation.
Activities
Student Accommodation
For over twenty years Morialta has provided accommodation for rural students as they make the transition from secondary to tertiary education, from the country to the city, to becoming self- sufficient. Currently we have capacity to house eight students in two houses. Along side support is offered, while recognising that these students are in transition to adulthood.
Accommodation offers furnished single bedrooms with shared bathrooms and living areas. Close proximity to UniSA, Magill. Easy travel to northern campus and city for Adelaide University and UniSA.
Expectations: Students will abide by the house rules laid down. Mutual respect and obligation are paramount.
For further information please contact the church office on 8331 9344.
Volunteering
The wonderful gift that volunteers make to our community cannot be underestimated. When people choose to work for love not money, they are generally well rewarded. Your interest may have developed during your working life, as a hobby, or as something you would like to learn. Volunteers may simply wish to contribute to the community now that they have more time to share, or they may like to develop confidence in their skills ahead of re-entering the workforce. From an hour or two a month, to dedicated days or weeks, we would love to welcome you to a shared passion to support and enrich the lives of others.
We offer diverse opportunities: come along to one of our events or to a meeting of one of our groups, and see what goes on and what you may be able to contribute
Two things are certain:
- Morialta Community Centre is highly reliant on volunteers to sustain its wide range of activities and welcomes new volunteers at any time, and
- Volunteering is based on mutual respect and trust, and reflects a shared passion for supporting and enriching the lives of others.
For further information please contact the Office, or speak to one of our wonderful volunteers about your involvement.
Mission Statement and Context
Community Centre Mission Statement
To witness to our Christian ethos by providing responsive and inclusive programs which meet peoples need for social connection, loving acceptance and affirming friendship, and which actively interface with the community.
Context
For nearly thirty years the Morialta (formerly Magill) Uniting Church has actively engaged with the wider community in a compassionate and creative way. Early programs included a monthly My Club that allowed teenagers with intellectual and developmental disabilities to meet together to socialise and have fun in a safe and caring environment. Some of our oldest programs continue to run, including the Wednesday afternoon Friendship Group and our Student Accommodation program for rural students entering Tertiary studies in the city.
While our activities have expanded and developed, there have been core values that have always underpinned planning. Programs are wide ranging, targeting a broad demographic, social isolation, cultural diversity, economic disadvantage, and, where appropriate, skill development.
Community Centre Logo
When we first reflected on what elements a logo might contain, we mused that a coffee cup would be a simple symbol of friendship, acceptance and welcome. Can you see it? Now look further at the saucer. It is also a smile, it is shaped to embrace, it is supporting and it gives the image a sense of dynamic movement
And what’s that inside the cup? The dots could be many things. They could simply be coffee beans, or strands of activity, or, variously coloured, represent diversity, and inclusion, or how about they represent people, each individually important, or people together in community?
And the cup itself is open, inviting, with upper lines reaching outwards and upwards. The cup and the handle, at a stretch, could be two Cs standing for Community Centre, and look at the point of intersection of the handle with the cup “C“, is that not a cross, symbolising our Christian imperative?
We hope you like it.
