Welcome to the Uniting Church in
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
The Church in the Marketplace.
We are on the corner of Vernon Street and Gordon Street,
in the City Centre.
21 Gordon Street on your GPS.
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Our regular SUNDAY service time
is 9.30 am, at Coffs Harbour.
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"Mission starts with the person in front of you."
The ‘mission’ word. Innocuous enough but capable of generating intense and paralysing confusion and disagreement.
A brief Google search suggests that the word was first used in Jesuit communities in the e1590’s to describe a ‘sending abroad’ among other things.
In the church, the word was used to describe God’s sending of the church into the world to proclaim – in word and deed – the gospel of Jesus Christ.
At some stage in the usage of the word, it was adopted into the business world where it eventually took on an entirely different character, now captured in the process and language of corporate mission ‘planning’ and related activities. Not surprisingly, the new corporatised understanding of mission – definition, purpose and process – then found its way back to the church.
Put simply, Our mission starts with baptism when we are claimed by God for God’s purposes.
Congregational mission may be the people on the church’s doorstep looking for community and support.
Mission can be simply summarised as compassionate attention which leads to organised kindness and care,
but it still starts with the person in front of you.
From Rev. Jane Fry, Insights, Winter, 2024
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The Christian Resource Centre, (Grapevine Shop),
at the church, is open on Tuesday to Friday at 10.30am until 2.30pm
Christian cards for a variety of occasions. Some hand-made.
A small selection of clothing is available.
A variety of Bible versions are also in the shop.
Koorong Books.
A selection is available at our Grapevine Shop.
Stock is upgraded regularly.
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Our Soup Place is open every week day
from 12.30 to 1.30.
Except Public Holidays.
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Church Websites
For the latest information from Synod NSW/ACT
and our North Coast Presbytery
see these links:
Mid-North Coast Presbytery
NSW/ACT Synod
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