Welcome

As one of the many churches in Bendigo, we are a community of Christians of all ages, reformed and evangelical in our theology and practise, part of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, and therefore the Presbyterian Church of Australia.

As a reformed and evangelical church, we are also connected in with The Gospel Coalition Australia.

We meet at 10:30am every Sunday  (9:30am on Good Friday and Christmas Day) on the corner of Forest and MacKenzie Streets, Bendigo. You can also catch us on 105.1 Life FM, each Sunday at 9am.

We confess faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and rejoice in the salvation He freely gives His people by His grace. In response to God’s goodness in this way, we seek to love God in return and seek to share what we have come to know with the people of Bendigo and surrounds.

Are you searching for more about this salvation, what it means to be a Christian or what is so good about the good news of the gospel of the Lord Jesus? We’d love to meet you and answer any questions you have. Or maybe you have something you’d like us to pray about? Why not contact us and let us know?

Together with Eaglehawk PC and Reforming, Bendigo East PC, we form the three Presbyterian ‘sister’ churches in Bendigo.

Recent News

Presbytery Visitation this Sunday, July 19

Philip

One of the joys of being a part of the Presbyterian Church (of Victoria, and Australia) is the levels of oversight we are used to. As a Presbyterian congregation, we are under the oversight of the local elders (Session) as well as the oversight of our Presbytery, a body made up of representative teaching and ruling elders of all the congregations within our region. In our case, the Presbytery of North Western Victoria which stretches from Castlemaine to Mildura. You can read more about Presbyterian Church government here.

This Sunday, July 19, we will welcome members of the Presbytery’s Five-Yearly Visitation Committee, whose task is to (as the name suggests), visit us, ask questions of members, managers, elders and the minister, receive the completed questionairres issued by the Presbytery beforehand, and work all this into a report for the Presbytery regarding the health of the congregation and how the gospel is progressing among us. It’s been some time since the last Presbytery visit, so we are looking forward to this one, after our usual monthly lunch (which has been moved a week earlier to coincide with this!)

Current Sermon Series

Latest Sermon

‘See the sisters who loved and served the Saviour’ (Luke 10:38-42)

Philip

In Luke 10:38-42, we find Jesus in the home of two sisters, Mary and Martha. Distinctions are often made between thse two sisters, and often the conclusion reached is ‘Be like Mary and don’t be like Martha, after all, Martha was too busy for Jesus and Mary wasn’t’. Maybe that’s right. Maybe it isn’t. Both sisters were busy. It’s just that their choices were different. Both loved and served Jesus and He was gentle and encouraging to both.

Message

Outline

• The thirty-third in this series
• Where we left off…
• A common (but incorrect) approach to the text?
• See how Luke wants you to note…

  1. The tension behind the busyness (v.38-40)
  2. The frustrations behind the outburst (v.40)
  3. The misunderstanding behind the accusation (v.40-42)

Balancing acts
The warning from Martha
Making the better choice