Canberra Christian Fellowship

About Us

Who are we?

The Canberra Christian Fellowship is a group of Christians that came together and began holding worship services in 2004.

Many of our people grew up in the Methodist Church (and value that heritage) before The Uniting Church in Australia was formed.

We began our own fellowship largely as a result of dissatisfaction with the attitudes, practices, beliefs and teaching of much of the leadership of the denomination from which we came.

The Canberra Christian Fellowship has been incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory since late 2006.

What do we believe?

We are protestant Christian believers, many of us with a strong Methodist background. Our beliefs could be described as 'mainstream' and our outlook as 'evangelical'.

We acknowledge the Bible as God's Word and look to learn from it about Him and how He wants us to live our lives. We believe the Bible contains God's Truth, but we are not 'literalists'.

Our statement of faith and practice is “Trusting in the grace of God and accepting the gifts of faith and reconciliation through the completed work of Jesus and with the continuing fellowship of the Holy Spirit, we commit to obey the commandments of Jesus to love God and one’s neighbour and accept the authority of Scripture and the traditions of the Faith as epitomised in the creeds.”

Our History

Early in 2004 many of us decided we could not stay in the denomination where we were then worshipping.

In March 2004 Issue 1 of The Next Step was circulated to encourage us all as we searched for somewhere new to worship.

On Sunday 30th May 2004 (Pentecost Sunday) we held our first service together as a fellowship. We began by meeting monthly.

In August 2004 we began a second activity each month - a tea together and / or time of hymn singing.

In December 2004 we held our first Multicultural Christmas Carol Service with the people and choirs from several ethnic churches joining us for the evening. We were delighted with a congregation of around 100.

In August 2006 we began holding services each week.

For practical reasons, we thought it wise to become incorporated, so on 15 November 2006 we became incorporated as an association in the Australian Capital Territory.

December 2006 saw our third Multicultural Christmas Carol Service. Our estimate was a congregation of around 230 people.

The need to become more widely known led to the development of this website and other advertising initiatives in March / April 2007.

 

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This page was last updated on 29 July, 2007