Community Ministries

Tuesday Lunch Hour
Faith & Art Group
Pre-School Toddlers Group
Migrant Support
Emmaus Walks
Operation Christmas Child
Country Music Week

Tuesday Lunch Hour

Each Tuesday during school term we have a home cooked lunch available for $5 per head.  While it is preferred you let us know you are coming, you can just show up and enjoy making new friends, having a chat and some food together.  From 12-1pm.

Faith and Art Group

The members of the ‘Faith& Art’ group believe that the desire to make something new, i.e. to create, is God given to each human. For 10 years we have met regularly to mix our faith & art practice together. We discuss, then create group works.  These group works are hung seasonally in our church. Karen, Maria, Pam, Denise, Fiona, Larraine, Pam, Fay…

Stepping Stones Pre-Schoolers Group

Each Tuesday from 10-12 in the Acacia Hall at Southside. Great activities, toys and a big comfortable room for mums, dads, grandparents and bubs to enjoy together, make new friends and meet with our young families worker Sarah Wright.

Migrant Support

Southside Uniting Church has welcomed new migrants, refugees and asylum seekers since 1978. Church members assist in many ways; financial support, assisting with English classes, driving lessons and supporting new people to access the agencies and requirements to enable them to settle in our region. Also assisting in events such as Fiesta la Peel, the multicultural street festival Members are also active…

Emmaus Walk

Southside Involvement with the Emmaus Walk The Emmaus non-denominational and evangelical movement commenced in the Northern Inland as far back as 1989. Since that time there has been a large number of Southside Uniting congregational members who have attended this annual three day retreat. The Emmaus movement was designed predominantly to provide lay church leaders with an enriched appreciation of the all…

Operation Christmas Child

This is an arm of the much larger world wide Christian relief organisation called Samaritan’s Purse which is wholly aimed at bringing Christ to children in poor countries, not only through the generosity of a gift filled shoebox at Christmas, (hence the name “Christmas boxes”) but also offering them the opportunity to hear of God’s love through a program called “The Greatest…

Country Music Week

Country Music Concerts Hospitality Catering Committee. (CMCHCC)! This ministry has been running each January since 2012.  Great team work, great feedback and great return – thanks to many folk new to this ministry of country hospitality, who supplied, prepared and served food. We are giving our time and skills, to build community and express who we are—the people of God in this place. …