The Origin Story of Dareton’s Youth and Community Centre

By Garry Sanossian  In the small New South Wales town of Dareton, home to just 456 residents, sits the Dareton [...]

Education As Mission: Coast Community Church Expand Their Vision

By Garry Sanossian and Heidi Wright  Education as mission has been at the heart of Coast Community Church’s vision for [...]

Heartbeat Church Joins Our Network

By Josh Gibbon and Garry Sanossian Last night network delegates voted unanimously on the affiliation of Heartbeat Church, welcoming them [...]

Abigail Skelly – Discovering A Passion For The Inner Life

By Garry Sanossian and Josh Gibbon In March this year, beloved member of the Network Resource Team, Abigail Skelly, farewelled [...]

Network Announcement From The Conference President

8 May, 2025 This week Conference President Emily Drough announced to our network that Daz Farrell has informed Conference Executive [...]

Empowering Volunteers: How a Ministry Grant Transformed Missionheart’s Safe Church Practices

By Garry Sanossian In March last year, a Ministry Grant from churches of Christ in NSW and ACT helped Missionheart [...]

Uprising 2025: Flourishing in Faith & Rooted in Christ

By Garry Sanossian A record 70 young people gathered at The Tops Conference Centre in April for Uprising 2025, a [...]

Graham Blok’s New Chapter in Police Chaplaincy

By Garry Sanossian In February, Graham Blok accepted the role of Honorary Police Chaplain for Hawkesbury Police Area Command. For [...]

Finding a New Home: Heartbeat Church’s Journey Toward Affiliation

By Garry Sanossian Heartbeat Church, a multi-campus congregation with locations in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast, is seeking affiliation [...]

Special General Meeting Announced: Vote on Church Affiliation and Property Trust Nomination

By Josh Gibbon Update: Due to no nominations being submitted for the Property Trust board member position, this SGM will [...]

Taste And See Journal Launch: A Prophetic Gift For The Church

By Heidi Wright The vibrant Belly&Bones cohort welcomed a buzzing crowd to the launch of their creative journal, Taste and [...]

From Vision to Reality: How a Mother-Daughter Team Created a Retreat Space for Spiritual Renewal

By Garry Sanossian In a beautiful stone house nestled among five acres of gardens and bushland in Tapitallee, New South [...]

Northern Rivers Churches Support Ex-Tropical Cyclone Relief Efforts

By Garry Sanossian In the wake of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, communities in northeastern New South Wales are in recovery once [...]

Chaplains Gather To Refresh For Year Ahead

By Garry Sanossian Chaplains from across our network stepped away from their daily ministry in early February to gather at [...]

Honouring Pastor Ken Perrin: A Legacy of Servant Leadership at Ainslie Church of Christ

By Garry Sanossian In January 2024, after 15 years of faithful service, Ken Perrin retired from his role of Pastor [...]

Voices Of Hope And Creativity: Launching The Belly & Bones Taste and See Journal

By Garry Sanossian Catalysed by a network event on International Women’s Day last year, 12 women from churches across our [...]

Seen, Known, Loved: Young Adults Retreat 2025

By Garry Sanossian A network young adults retreat held this month brought together 60 young adults from 16 different churches [...]

Kingdom Love in Action: Northside Church’s Christmas Dinner Brings Hope and Connection to Community.

Written by Garry Sanossian For many, the festive season is a time of joy and celebration. But for others, it [...]

7,000 People Attend Christmas Carols Event Hosted by Connect Church

By Garry Sanossian On December 14, over 7,000 people from the community of Engadine gathered at Cooper Street Park for [...]

Every Voice Invited: Open Space Conversations at Collective 2024

By Garry Sanossian In November this year, Collective 2024 brought leaders of our network’s ministries together at Stanwell Tops to [...]

A Time to Break Ground: Collective 24 

By Garry Sanossian and Josh Gibbon   On November 13 to 15 over 220 ministering leaders, chaplains, elders, and staff [...]

FUSE T4 2024: Creating Strong Bonds Between our Youth

By Heidi Wright For young people in churches of Christ, Castle Hill’s Restore church was the place to be on [...]

The Tops Interns Hit The Road

By Jonah Pearson (Tops Internship Coordinator)   Every year, The Tops interns embark on a national ‘trek’. The aim of [...]

Nominees for Conference Executive Announced

Four nominees for Conference Executive have been announced to Conference Convened delegates ahead of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on [...]

Holly Miller: Tending To Women In Prison

By Amy Galliford In many ways, Holly Miller’s work is just like any other nurse’s. One by one, patients file [...]

Sent With Kingdom Priorities: Coast Community Contending For Renewal 

By Amy Galliford “If it wasn’t for this café, I wouldn’t be here.”  These were the words Mission Capacity Manager [...]

Children’s Leaders Network Day

By Anne Simpson   Connection, support, and affirming the significant ministry of children’s ministry leaders and volunteers were the focus [...]

RISE 2024: Emerging Leaders Gather From Across Australia

By Josh Gibbon   In August this year, RISE brought together a vibrant group of 67 leaders and mentors at [...]

Empowered By The Spirit: Walking By Faith With A Heart For Mission 

By Amy Galliford It’s Sunday morning, and numb fingertips are gripping a guitar fretboard as a melody puffs steam into [...]

Alongside In Service: Southern Church Equipping Believers  

By Amy Galliford It’s Wednesday morning and an Illawarra SRE classroom is buzzing with Bible questions. It’s Thursday night and [...]

“Like A Mighty River”: Sue Whiteley Farewells The Network 

By Amy Galliford After nearly 17 years of service with churches of Christ, Sue Whiteley is concluding her time as a [...]

A Wide Open Space Of Healing  

By Naomi Giles As part of their 12-month journey in crafting art, poetry and prose, the Belly & Bones cohort [...]

The Relentless Nature of Grace: Long-Time SES Chaplain and Churches of Christ Minister Steve Hall Retires 

By Amy Galliford  “I don’t know what he does, but I know that when he does it, every time it [...]

Board Nominations Open Ahead Of Conference Convened (AGM) 2024 

Nominations for Conference Executive and the Property Trust have officially opened ahead of the annual Conference Convened meeting (AGM) on [...]

Elders Gather To Build Community And Be Equipped

By Amy Galliford and Josh Gibbon Nearly 50 elders representing 14 churches from around our network gathered at The Tops [...]

Renovating The Building, Building The Church: Northgate Leverages Property Grant

By Amy Galliford “There’s a language we need to speak to the community in showing that stuff is happening to [...]

Down On The Underground: Exploring Micro-Church Missional Communities

By Nathan Marshall Nathan Marshall, our Church Health and Engagement Ministry Leader, reflects on his time with micro-church movement leaders [...]

“Until We Close Our Eyes”: Two Advocates On Their Ceaseless Fight for Justice  

By Amy Galliford “When I get to the hardest bits, God finds a way to break my heart for His [...]

Vale, Chris Jenkins 

By Amy Galliford On 9 May 2024, Murwillumbah Church of Christ minister, RFS firefighter and chaplain, and former schoolteacher Christopher [...]

Engaged In Transformation: Penrith Community Finding Christ In Their Stories 

By Amy Galliford It’s a bright day, and all Jonathan can hear is the sound of his own feet traipsing [...]

40 Years of Forster-Tuncurry Church of Christ

By Anne Simpson Forster-Tuncurry Church of Christ began life like many others – with a small group of Jesus followers [...]

Welcomed Into Family: Mess, Growth and Sacrifice – Sydney Crystal’s Stubborn Commitment To Family 

By Amy Galliford It’s a Friday night, and laughter is ringing through the rooms of an ordinary Sydney house. A [...]

Network ‘Pilgrims’ Gather to Explore Unity, Restoration, and Life

By Amy Galliford and Josh Gibbon  Earlier this week, a group of 30 gathered at The Tops Conference Centre to [...]

Faith In The Marketplace: Leading Counter-culturally

By Amy Galliford About this article: Raewyn Williams and Rebecca Lee share with Amy Galliford their experience of being Christian [...]

Knowing Telopea: Planting, Thriving, Dying, Hoping

By Emily Ferguson The scent of flowers welcomes me as I approach Ray and Gwenda Cheal’s front door. The welcome [...]

Adventurous in Restoration: Living Grace At The Frontlines Of Crisis And Change 

By Amy Galliford   “Not only did you repair my roof, but you restored my faith at the same time.” [...]

Anchored in The Scriptures: Edwina and Ryan – Rediscovering Scripture, Re-energising Communities 

By Amy Galliford “I had a big shift when I moved from intellectual engagement towards spiritual engagement – it was [...]

A New Beginning in Austral

By Anne Simpson Pentecost Sunday seemed an appropriate day to celebrate a new beginning for a church community in our [...]

Rise Up: Young People Inspired At Uprising

By Amy Galliford Spontaneous stairwell worship gatherings have become something of a tradition over the years at Uprising, our network-wide [...]

Unearthing Treasures From Our Archives

By Amy Galliford   churches of Christ in NSW & ACT has committed to the work of developing historical archives [...]