Canberra Baptist Church is a vibrant, open and welcoming Christian community brought together by our love of God, our love for each other, and our love for God’s world. 

We love to come together for worship, small groups, a variety of social activities, to care for creation and those in need and God’s heart for justice, and to share hospitality with others and through our community centre.

Led by the Spirit, we will explore together what it means to follow Jesus today, build an inclusive, caring community, and share God’s love and justice in words and actions.

Church – in – person and online

Our Sunday service is at 10am. The service is live streamed and available for later viewing on our YouTube channel – see link below.  

10am Sunday service YouTube link: Canberra Baptist Church – YouTube

We also hold Family Church Sunday gatherings at 10.00am, 2nd and 4th Sundays each month (except for school holidays).

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Response for the NSW/ACT Annual Assembly 2-3 May 2025

A longer paper prepared by the Canberra Baptist Church diaconate will shortly be distributed with the Annual Assembly 2025 Documentation, but below is the response made by the church at its November 2024 quarterly church meeting.

Statement from the November 2024 Church Meeting

Canberra Baptist is committed to affiliation with other Baptist churches and has no intention of leaving the NSW and ACT Baptist Association.

Canberra Baptist Church continues to hold that it was a serious error for the NSW and ACT Baptist Association to adopt this Position Statement on marriage. The Statement was adopted without biblical or theological debate and contrary to Baptist values of freedom of conscience and the autonomy of the local church. It will harm, perhaps catastrophically, relationships and the witness, work and culture of our Association. All of this grieves us.

Marriage is a matter of individual conscience on which Christians seeking God’s mind in good faith can reach different conclusions. Accordingly, we welcome people in de facto relationships, who have decided, in good conscience, on a different form of marriage. We welcome people in same sex relationships who have decided, in good conscience, to marry. We welcome people who are divorced and people who are single. We believe that the Good News of Jesus is for all people without qualification, and we are deeply committed to creating a community of genuine welcome.

Canberra Baptist Church values, supports and affirms our LGBTQI+ siblings in Christ and others who are excluded or harmed by the NSW and ACT Baptist Association’s Position Statement. We believe, to quote Acts 10:47, that “these people… have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” We invite and encourage them to share fully in the life of our community.

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