Baptism service at Urqhart's Bluff, December 2008

Anglesea Baptist is a friendly, family church that welcomes visitors. We live in a magnificent part of God’s creation, along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.

Our worship service is at 10.45am on Sundays at Anglesea Uniting Church building, Murch Crescent, Anglesea.

Our Ministry Centre and Op Shop is located at 71 Great Ocean Rd, Anglesea, 3230, open Monday to Saturday from 9.30am-4pm.

Anglesea Baptist Church recognises that the church exists for the care and encouragement of all people. We want to value each person as God's beloved and desire to work under the guidance of the Holy Spirit that all may reach their full potential in life, in relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The church desires to be able to live in the World with Justice, Hope and Love by sharing in God’s reconciliation to all people.

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Coming up in 2012

We are preaching and studying "The Story" this year, beginning with Creation in February and finishing with Revelation in November.

• Across 31 weeks, we will be growing in our understanding of how God's story is told through the Bible. Sunday messages and weekly small groups on "The Story" will be running during School Term times.

• We want to engage more deeply with the Bible as God’s story of all creation, history and salvation. God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. The story of the Bible is the story of God's great love affair with humanity. We are looking forward to being transformed and renewed as we study the Scriptures together.

• In February we welcome our 2012 Youth Intern, Michael Brew. Michael will be studying youth ministry internship with the Reformed Theological College's "SOLA" program, and his ministry at Anglesea Baptist will form part of his learning. We are very excited to welcome Michael to our community. It is an answer to many prayers, that we can move forward with greater youth ministry in 2012.

• We will have no service on January 29th but join with the Anglican's to share in worship. Afterwards we will hold our AGM.

• On the 25th of November, Anglesea Baptist celebrates its 20 year anniversary!! Stay tuned for more details.

• In April we will have a combined service on Good Friday, and hold an outdoor service at the Anglesea Riverbank (close to the Main Beach) on Easter Sunday.

Visitors are most welcome to join in all of these services or small group studies. For more information please contact the Pastor using the 'contact us' form on this web page.

 

Epic Pedalling Effort!

• Congratulations to Marianne and Eric Messer on an epic effort in riding bikes from Anglesea to Birchip. The 330km distance was completed in just three days!

• The aim of the ride was to acknowledge the fantastic support that the Birchip community has given towards the building costs of the 2012 mission trip to Peru.

• One of the members of the Peru Mission trip, Paul Messer, has been working and living in Birchip since his return from the first Anglesea Baptist Peru trip in 2010. His stories and passion to make a long term difference in the lives of the people of Las Lomas, Peru have inspired the Birchip community to get behind him with support.

• The Birchip community donated $10,000 towards the costs of constructing houses in the urban slum areas of Lima. This donation ensures that the 14 member team from Anglesea will have the building materials and resources available when they arrive.

• Members of Anglesea Baptist and other Anglesea locals are currently preparing for their next trip and in addition to the construction work, plan to run art classes, volleyball sports clinics and English language lessons.

  

Scripture Union Beach Mission in January 2012

Anglesea Baptist is excited to be supporting the Scripture Union Beach Mission team in Anglesea during January 2012. The team will be accommodated by Camp Wilkin Baptist Camp and will be running programs in Anglesea, especially at the Caravan Park.

In July we celebrated our most senior member of the congregation with a 1920's party.

Loris turned 90 and we could not resist partying with her!

Boa feathers, dancing the 'flapper' and gangster suits were some of the highlights.

Seaside Seconds is the opportunity shop managed by the church as a welfare ministry to the local community. A full time manager is employed and a small army of cheerful volunteers from the church and local community staff the shop. The photo you see was taken at the fashion parade during the launch of the new bigger building of Seaside Seconds at 71 Great Ocean Rd, Anglesea.

The opening hours of Seaside Seconds are 9.30am - 4pm Monday to Saturday. ph 52631687.

We accept recycled goods during opening hours, including Books, CD's, Records, Kitchenware, Bric-a-Brac, Clothes, Linen, Curtains, Pictures, Jewellry, Bags, Garden Tools, Sports Gear, and small appliances in good working order. If you have small furniture items to donate, please ring the shop before bringing it.

Unfortunately we cannot accept large Furniture items, Mattresses, TV's, Computers, Soiled and Damaged Clothing, Broken or Faulty Toys & Appliances.

There is a meeting space located on the side of the Op Shop, for community groups to use during the shop's opening hours. There is a small kitchen, seating for 15 people and creche toys available. Contact Pastor James via the website for bookings.

We also have a large range of information pamphlets on social and health issues such as Gambling Helpline, Depression, Youth support services, counselling services, as well as resources on spiritual growth, copies of the Bible and inspirational literature. These are free and available in the Resource Centre.