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Please submit your completed application to the Pastoral Relations Committee via [email protected]

The PRC will review your application and communicate the outcome in due course. If there are any further clarifications required or additional documents to be submitted, the committee will reach out to you. 

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• P01 - Establishing Use of Property

• P02 - Manse Policy

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"If we are to lead Christ’s people in Christ’s way, we must ourselves be people who have walked with Christ. May God help us to be such people as we lead his church and I look forward to working alongside you in serving God’s world." Rev. Viniana Ravetali, Chairperson 

To view the report, please click the image above (and give it a few moments to load).

"It is an honour and privilege to present Sydney Presbytery’s Annual Report for the financial year 2020-2021. This is a brief summation and glimpse of the enormous task and missional work that has continued to take place during these challenging times as we seek to live our purpose in ‘Leading the Church to Life’ (our mission) and ‘Thriving, well-resourced, missional churches’ (our passion)!"

- Rev. Vini Ravetali, Chair of Sydney Presbytery

Presenting the 2021 edition of CSU Magazine! A collection of creative works by members of Christian Students Uniting

Dear friends,

If you can’t fly, then run.

If you can’t run, then walk.

If you can’t walk, then crawl,

but by all means, keep moving.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 There seems so much excitement around as NSW begins to loosen restrictions and allow some greater freedoms for people. There is also a lot of anxiety and fear, as well as some people wondering what all the fuss is about. As I read the news, I see articles about “Freedom Day,” and “what it will look like when Sydney emerges from lockdown,” and so on. Reading deeper, it doesn’t take much time before it becomes apparent that people view “freedom” very differently. For some, it is all tied up in ‘what I can do,’ and for others, it seems to be more about ‘how do we navigate this new post-pandemic landscape together.’ For many it will be a mixture of both, and probably much more.

The Life and Witness Consultation provides an opportunity for the congregation to:

• Clarify their sense of identity
• Renew their understanding of context in which they work
• Reflect on and evaluate their direction and missional goals
• Identify their leadership needs, and other resources, that might be needed over the next five years
• Assist with the deployment of resources, and the implementation of missional goals

To register for this training, please email: [email protected] 

Rev. Kent Crawford interviews the CEOs of Parish Missions across the Synod to discover how they have operated during the pandemic, how their work and ministry has been affected and the way forward.

As we look around us, in this time of COVID pandemic, we see a fearful and divided community. I believe we are called as a Church to speak into this fear and division, words and actions of love, peace and healing.

Dear friends,

“I don’t think he knows what mood he’s in today. It’s been a roller coaster.”

Message from my son about his (3 1/2 year old) dog this week.

I think it sums up what I’m hearing from a lot of people about how they are feeling at the moment. I’m sensing a lot of confusion - in one minute we might be angry that things are so messed up, and the next minute we might celebrate something new that we have had to learn to accomplish. One moment we might be pleased that we can stay at home to work (well, I don’t have to get out of my Ugg boots, and I can hang out the washing between meetings and tasks) and the next moment we are lamenting the lack of socialisation.

Dear friends,

It’s not my dog, I don’t have to take it for a walk.

Just before I went on leave recently, a colleague shared this saying with me. I am quite sure this colleague did not realise the impact it would have on me, and how often I would repeat it as a kind of mantra. I certainly didn’t expect that to be so when I frantically wrote it down “just in case I forgot it later.”