Creating great spaces for youth and kids ministry
Following the 2025 Synod’s focus on reaching youth and young people, Sydney Anglican Property (SAP) has been gathering insights to assist local leadership teams in designing, adapting, and ...
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 ...
The architecture of generosity: Moving from obligation to joy in church property fundraising
There is a distinct mix of anticipation and apprehension that hits a parish leadership team when a building project is put on the table. The mission potential of a new church building, an extended ...
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 ...
Our true inheritance: Why ministries, not bricks and mortar, define our heritage
Sydney Anglican Property, of course, places a high value on the buildings in which churches across our Diocese conduct their ministry, including those with historical significance. But as all ...
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 ...
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 ...