About us

As a Congregation in the Uniting Church, we are committed to providing passionate worship, make opportunities for intentional faith development, practice radical hospitality, engage in risk-taking mission, and be extravagantly generous (with acknowledgement to Bishop Robert Schnase). We are striving to be an inclusive community. We pray that we will be able to achieve these things, and further to this, pray that we all will be part of the answers to what we pray, in confident hope in the Holy Spirit, and our companion, Jesus Christ.

The Uniting Church​ is an Australian Christian movement. It shares with Australian people in the search for meaning, purpose and community in life.

It is committed to justice and reconciliation between people. Through worship, sharing the story of Jesus, and service in the community, we witness to the belief that life is most fully found in God.

We have journeyed in faith through organic church union since 1977 from Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational backgrounds to be a part of a truly Australian church: moved by the Spirit and inspired by the Gospel of Jesus.

The Uniting Church has a strongly felt and argued sense of social justice. It has taken stances on issues such as native title for Indigenous people, the environment, apartheid and the status of refugees. These stances have been expressed in practical involvement and in political comment and advocacy.

We acknowledge that we live and work on Aboriginal land. In 2010 the Uniting Church became the first church in Australia to constitutionally acknowledge Aboriginal and Islander people as the First Peoples of Australia.

The Uniting Church is the third largest Christian denomination in Australia, behind the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches, with about 250,000 members spread throughout about 2,500 congregations. In Victoria and Tasmania the church has approximately 600 congregations and about 60,000 members.

Even though our congregations can be vastly different, each is a community in which people seek to follow Jesus, learn about God, share their faith, care for each other, serve the local community and seek to live faithfully and with real joy.

The Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania seeks to be a living Christian faith community, faithful to God, seeking ways of love, peace and justice for all people.

Child Safe Church
The St. Albans/St. Andrew’s Uniting Church is part of the Safe Church network of Congregations within the Uniting Church.  In addition to our commitment to maintaining our Congregation as a safe place for children and all people, this also means regular participation in training for all of our leaders, annual Child Safe Audits, and accountability to the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania for the manner in which we ensure the physical, spiritual, and emotional safety of those who attend worship or one of our programs.  All Church Councillors, Elders, and Volunteers have current Working With Children Checks and/or Police Checks and have participated in the latest Child Safe Training.

Proposed Property Development
We are about to install a temporary disabled toilet as we wait for plans to redevelop our site to incorporate a modern toilet suite.