16 Years Of Faith, Coffee And Community
Read moreThe 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 [...]
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