Sunday services are also live-streamed on YouTube
Sunday services are also live-streamed on YouTube
St Mary’s is a community. Loving God, Following Jesus, Sharing God’s love with all
St Mary’s Anglican Church is a beautifully maintained 150 year old bluestone church nestled in the heart of Sunbury. Its walls, slate roof and stained glass windows contribute to the picturesque image of an old country town church. It is a popular venue for weddings and baptisms and has a long history of serving the community of Sunbury. However, don’t let it’s looks deceive you…. St Mary’s is also a modern church with a constantly growing membership of more than 200 regulars. Behind its romantic walls are people who care about people and who serve and love each other and the community of Sunbury.
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Weekly Services
9:30am Sunday- Holy Communion service followed by morning tea
St Mary’s Anglican Church is not a place for spectators. It is a place for team members. Whether you are a five-year old child, a ninety-five year old grandmother, a busy mum, or a businessman with big responsibilities, we want you to be a part of our vibrant church community. Here is how you can learn, serve, and grow at St Marys.
Often, small groups of people are better able to interact and learn about a topic than larger groups are. For that reason, St Mary’s has small bible studies held in member homes. The size of the group is anywhere from six to twenty people. At a time, designated by your group, you can participate in the small group study.
Youth United is a youth group for Secondary school students, and meets every Friday night.
Life can get complicated once you cross that nebulous threshold into adulthood. There are complicated decisions. Bigger stakes. Serious relationships. And a whole lot more decisions. The young adult group of St Mary’s provides a welcoming atmosphere for university and early-career aged young people.
This group meets weekly on Tuesday afternoons for a great time of sewing and chatting and encouragement. They have produced some marvellous pieces of work and welcome new members.
Mothers’ Union is a worldwide organisation with the Anglican Church with over four million members. Our primary focus is to support and encourage Christian marriage and family life. This year 2020, MU Australia are financially supporting PNG through a new Parenting Program. Melbourne MU supports the Karen displaced people along the Thai/Burma border. Five Christmas Cards are also given to every incarcerated woman within the Victorian Prisons, for her personal use. Funds have already been distributed this year from its Disaster Fund, as a result of the recent natural disasters, to eight Dioceses across Australia.
St Mary’s Sunbury branch meets on the third Wednesday of each month.
Further information is available from the Melbourne Diocese website at:
www.mumelbourne.org.au
St Mary’s is thrilled to be part of the spread of God’s kingdom around the world. We are active in supporting missionaries with our money and with our prayers. Every second year, a small team from our church travels to Chibobo, Zambia to assist in practical projects and evangelistic outreach. We encourage all of our people to respond to God’s call for laborers, whether it means that they move to a foreign country or live and minister in our own community.
For more information on our outreach activities, and other mission activities and agencies that St Mary’s supports please click on one of the links to the left.
Chibobo is a rural community in Northern Zambia, and ST Mary’s has a a very close link with the community, through our support of the HMP Orphanage there. St Mary’s have a mission team travel to the orphanage in Chibobo every two years.
KIDS HOPE AUS. is a mentoring program that helps Australian children needing additional support, and their families. Through a partnership between local churches and primary schools, Kids Hope Aus. works to improve opportunities for mentored children in the areas of education, self confidence and wellbeing.
Details of our coming events and a full calendar can be found by clicking on the events tab.
As a community walking in Jesus’ footsteps, we follow this command, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength; and love your neighbour as yourself.” (Deut 6:5, Matt 22:37, Luke 10:27) God calls us to love and minister to vulnerable and marginalised people – these are people who need special care, protection and support.
St Mary’s, as a member of the Anglican Church of Australia within the Diocese of Melbourne, is committed to child safe practices. The safety and the wellbeing of children and vulnerable people are embedded in policies and practices which reflect a commitment to zero tolerance of abuse.
1 (A) Those who hold a role, office or position that requires them to have a WWC Clearance under the Worker Screening Act 2020 (Vic).
1 (B) Those who hold a role, office or position that constitutes “ministry to children” within the meaning of the Safe Ministry to Children Canon 2017, currently as follows:
Ministry to children means work of a kind where a person:
(a) is required to hold a working with children check, or a working with vulnerable people check by reason that the person has contact with a child as part of engaging in a regulated activity; or
(b) exercises a pastoral ministry which has direct, regular and not incidental contact with children; or
(c) provides services to children that are ancillary to the exercise of a pastoral ministry within General Synod – Safe Ministry to Children Canon 2017 Adopting Ordinance 2017 paragraph (b) which involve:
(i) contact with children during an overnight activity (such as camps and similar activities); or
(ii) close, personal contact with children (such as changing clothes, washing and toileting); or
(d) supervises the ministry of a person within any one or more of paragraphs (a) to (c); or
(e) performs a professional standards role; or
(f) performs a safe ministry role.
Regardless of whether a role, office or position is within the meaning of 1 A. and 1 B. above, any of following roles, offices or positions:
Church authorities may also require other people to obtain a Clearance for Service (see section 60(3) of the Professional Standards Uniform Act).
We work to ensure all children, families, staff and volunteers know what to do and who to tell if they observe abuse or are a victim, and if they notice inappropriate behaviour.We all have a responsibility to report an allegation of abuse if we have a reasonable belief that an incident took place.
If an adult has a reasonable belief that an incident has occurred then they must report the incident. Factors contributing to reasonable belief may be:
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7 O’Shanassy St, Sunbury. (map)
Tel: (03) 9744 1347
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