Branching out wisely: Tree maintenance on parish grounds
Trees are a glorious feature of our church grounds, offering shade for morning tea after the service, natural beauty, and a reminder of God’s creative nature. But, left unmanaged, even the ...
Australia’s oldest Anglican Church has plenty more life and ministry ahead
St Luke’s Anglican Church in Liverpool isn’t just another old church. It is the oldest still-standing Anglican church building in Australia! Now, thanks to a host of important building works ...
A valuable investment: securing South Sydney Anglican for future generations
Sometimes you just don’t know what you’ve got until it’s (almost) gone! When it comes to church property, it can be easy to overlook its fundamental importance to our ministry. But for one ...
Stewarding for gospel impact: Work underway at St Paul’s Canterbury
Not that long ago, when Stephen Gardner started as Rector at St Paul’s Canterbury, the church was a provisional parish with only 30 people. Now, it’s home to ten times that many and is at the ...
Renewing history, reaching community: The Garrison celebrates fresh spaces, new era
After over a century and a half without significant updates, the historic Garrison Church in Millers Point has completed a major building renewal, transforming its spaces to better serve its ...
Tapping into decades of parish property experience
For rectors, wardens and parish councils, buildings and property can feel like both a blessing and a burden. When the main game is sharing the gospel, who wants to waste time on maintenance? And ...
A win for parishes and for the communities they serve: Celebrating CBP grant funding in 2025
For more than a decade, the Community Building Partnership (CBP) program has been quietly transforming neighbourhoods across NSW. Designed to back shovel-ready community infrastructure, CBP grants ...
“If God wants it built, it’ll be built”: A new faith home for the Bay & Basin
When Rev. Campbell Mackay became the rector of the Jervis Bay parish, he'd only visited once before, and that was for the interview. “I took the kids to Blenheim Beach that first weekend,” he ...
A decade of faith and perseverance: The new home of Shepherd’s Wharf Anglican
After more than a decade of prayer, planning, and persistence, the Parish of Dundas Telopea is preparing to open the doors of a brand new ministry centre in Rydalmere. Soon to be relaunched as ...
Positioned for mission: Rebalancing property for the sake of the gospel
How should we organise our property assets if our number one mission priority is saving souls? That’s the question driving Sydney Anglican Property and its Diocese-wide Regional Buildings and ...
Seizing gospel opportunities in Sydney’s suburbs
In two pockets of western and southwestern Sydney, thousands of houses are rising from paddocks, roads are being built where there were none, and communities are beginning to take shape. Over the ...
Churches supporting churches: A vision for shared mission
What if parishes saw church property not simply as an asset to protect, but as a resource to multiply? Across Sydney and the Illawarra, the gospel continues to take root in new and growing ...