Jesmond Park Uniting Church is a welcoming faith community of hope, love and justice. We both share and experience these by engaging with our wider multicultural community, nurturing our congregation, and empowering the young.
Jesmond Park Uniting Church will be known as a faith community that shares and experiences God's love with and through the broader community, regardless of race, religion, age, sexual orientation or need.
Lambton, Jesmond and Waratah Uniting Churches combined in 1998 to form Jesmond Park Uniting Church. A new purpose built church opened in 2008 to provide a large worship space, meeting rooms and break out/casual spaces. It also serves as a space for the local community who had no accessible large buildings at that time.
“It sure is noisy sometimes, but it’s great” (from a 70-something-year-old)
“I haven’t been to church before and that was much better than I expected” (at a baptism service)
“Thank you for my warm winter clothes and blankets”
“Hospitality is generous.”
“What do you mean we are going to the park for worship?”
“Does anyone know if there will be any singers today?”
“You were right, they really are a very welcoming group of people” (a visiting worship leader)
As a result of our vision for offering God’s hospitality into the community we have made adjustments in small areas and introduced new initiatives such as:
We enjoy worship, we enjoy sharing with others for support, friendship and fun. We long to be God’s faithful people, to be as inclusive of friends we haven’t met yet, as God is of us.