We want to make all our visitors feel welcome, but for those who choose to stay we want you to become a part of the church family.

Hopefully the following information will help answer some of the questions you may have about our church, so that you will soon be able to talk about us as your church.

We’ll start by explaining the key events and structures that hold our church together, introduce some of the people behind those structures, give you a look at our vision and values, and then come back to how you can fit into things.

When you get to the bottom of each page, just follow the ‘read more’ links on the right, and you’ll find yourself back at this page in a few minutes.

Church On Sunday

We see Bible teaching as central to what we do when we meet together on Sunday. In the end it is Bible teaching that will shape everything else. With that in mind we have structured our morning to cater for teaching both adults and children.

On Sunday morning everyone starts church together. Then the children go out to KPC Kids just before the Bible talk. We are also catering for a small, but growing, number of high schoolers – so we run a Youth Group.

KPC Kids

We have had children in our church from the very beginning and we are keen to see children grow into faithful followers of Jesus.

At this stage KPC Kids is made up of four groups. Crèche for the really little ones, young KPC Kids for three year olds and up, middle KPC kids for years 1-2 and older KPC Kids for school year three and older. We will increase the number of classes as the number of children grows.

Our KPC Kids teachers and helpers are volunteers, and each one is required to have a Blue Card and to receive ChildSafe training.

Youth Group

For the first couple of years the high-schoolers in our church family met together over morning tea every second Sunday. With Brad Fletcher on-board last year we’ve been able to move to having regular Friday afternoon Youth Group.

Morning Tea

Morning Tea is an important part of our time together on Sunday morning. It’s not the food that makes this time stand out – but the opportunity to talk together. Sharing our lives is part of what makes us a church, and morning tea helps that happen.

Growth Groups

During the week we have Bible Study and prayer groups. We call them Growth Groups as a way of reminding ourselves that we aim to grow in numbers and in maturity as followers of Jesus. Our Growth Groups are a central part of what makes our church work.

We like to think in terms of growing in Growth Groups and serving on Sundays. Of course that is over-simplified, but it does help us stay focussed.

There are Growth Groups for everyone, including a day group with crèche so that mums in particular can manage to get along.

Socials

We make an effort to have socials – chances to just get to know each other better. That means, in the long run, we will be better able to care for each other.

NightChurch

On Sunday 10 February 2008 we kicked-off NightChurch in Kenmore. We have started with a small but keen core group, and we have watched this new church grow.

NightChurch is particularly aimed at the 18-30 age – those for whom night is a better time to meet together.

The Church Notice-Board

Well, the thing is – we don’t have a building, so we don’t have a notice-board. Instead we have the weekly notices, email-updates and a web-page; www.kenmore.org.au.

People

We encourage everyone to be actively involved in church, but there are a people that have been given particular roles. As a Presbyterian Church we have Ministers/Pastors, Elders and a Committee of Management.

Read more – Staff