We are a Bible Teaching Church that seeks to grow followers of Jesus. We each desire to grow in knowing Jesus, living for him, and making him known.

If you read these links you will get a bit more of a feel for what that looks like for us. But if you really want to know who we are then nothing can replace visiting on Sunday.

If you’re checking-out what it means to be a Christian – please let us know, we would love to share our thoughts. In the meantime maybe this will get you started.

Church on Sunday morning is made up of people of all ages, backgrounds and stages of life. We sing, we pray, we hear the Bible taught, and we catch-up over morning tea. Bible teaching is intended to be at the heart of our morning and we hope that our understanding of the Bible will shape the other things that we do together as a church.

On Sunday mornings (in school terms) we run KPC Kids and creche during the sermon. Partly so that the kids can learn from the Bible at their level, and partly so that their parents can too.

You are welcome to join us, we have visitors at church with us most weeks.

NightChurch is similar to Morning Church, we sing, we pray, we hear the Bible taught, and we catch-up over supper. But being later in the day, NightChurch attracts a slightly younger group of people, and has a more relaxed feel.

During school terms we run Youth Group before NightChurch.

Everyone is welcome to come to church twice on a Sunday – but most of our regulars choose one or the other and make that congregation home.

Children are a welcome part of our Church and we are keen to see them grow into faithful followers of Jesus in a caring and safe environment.

There’s a little more information here.

Youth group meets at 3:30pm on Sunday afternoon, during school term. The program includes games and Bible study.

There’s a little more information here.

Growth Groups are a chance to share our lives together as we read the Bible and pray. We meet mid-week in each other’s homes, so in many ways Growth Groups are the back-bone to our church as we really get to know each other.

There’s a little more information here.

Socials are another important part of church life – because we want to get to know each other and share our lives together. We also want our family and friends to see what it means for us to be followers of Jesus so that they too might join us as followers of Jesus. Having fun together helps a lot to that end!

Through the course of a year we have lunches after Morning Church, dinners after NightChurch, Dinners for Eight, ladies socials, men’s dinners, Youth Group socials, KPC Kids socials,  ‘play in the park’, a weekend away, or a weekend at home. And of course there’s morning tea and dinner on Sunday.

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

Minister: Steve Blencowe

Steve and Lyndel and their family helped start KPC and are keen to see more healthy, growing, Bible teaching churches across Brisbane. Before moving to Kenmore they served at Acacia Ridge Presbyterian Church – where Steve was the assistant minister. Steve trained for two years in the Ministry Training Strategy (at St. Matthias / UNSW) before completing four years at Moore College (and further study since). Steve is originally from Adelaide, grew up in Bangladesh, India, and Sydney but now calls Brisbane home! He was once an Engineer.

Assistant Minister: Steve Young

Stephen Young is married to Annie and has two primary-aged children. He was trained as a candidate for the Presbyterian Ministry at Queensland Theological College; and graduated in 2022. He is now the Assistant Minister at Kenmore Presbyterian Church and, under God, aims to grow and mature KPC’s evening service and Youth Ministries. For many years he worked as a tax collector
(well, for the ATO) and completed an undergraduate degree in Games and Interactive Entertainment at QUT (2010). Occasionally, you might find him
returning to these humble roots…

Student Minister: Rayk Platzek

Rayk started with KPC in 2021 and is also a Candidate while studying at QTC.

Volunteer Student Minister: Thom Herbert

Thom starts study at QTC in 2022 and will serve as a volunteer Student Minister with NightChurch.

Elders

We have four elders who oversee and lead our church – Rodney Brydon, David Fairhurst, Rob Miller, and Riaan Saunders. Rob is our Session Clerk.

      

Rodney | David | Rob | Riaan

Committee of Management
The ‘business’ and ‘accounting’ side of church is looked after by our Committee of Management. Ian Muller is the secretary, Keith Esson the Treasurer, Annette McGrath, Irwan Djamaludin, Libby Constable, Meredith Gray and James Kasherman make up the rest of the committee. Debbie Esson does the book-keeping.

The Committee of Management is elected/re-elected each year at the Annual Congregational Meeting – which is held in March.

KPC was once a church plant – 29 January 2006 was our first Sunday together. We are a growing church – we are keen to grow as followers of Jesus, and to see others come to share our trust in Jesus. We are a Presbyterian church, but we welcome people from all church and non-churched backgrounds.

Presbyterian Church of Qld

Kenmore Presbyterian Church is a part of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland.