Playgroup
A time for children and their parents/caregivers to share play experiences and get to know others in the community. Free play, structured activities, story time, craft and snacks are available for the children and morning tea for slightly bigger children (group-ups).
Every Wednesday during school term 10:00am – 11:30am
KidsLife
Running alongside All Age Worship, it is a time for children aged from preschool up to year 5 at school to learn about God and the good things of life. KidsLife offers fun, friendship, stories, music and dramas.
Activities are also provided during school holidays, including opportunities for involvement in the services.
Day Camp
Day Camp is a children’s program held in the January school holidays for Reception to Year 7, with leadership opportunities from Year 8 onwards.
Day Camp 2025 is Monday 13 January to Friday 17 January
Registrations for 2024 families will open late October and information will be emailed to families. For new families, the Day Camp 2025 waitlist is open HERE.
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS
Momentum Youth
Momentum Youth is a group of young people meeting together for a good time and a good feed, in a safe and welcoming place to ask questions about life and the teachings of Jesus.
Weekly social gathering for youth in year 6-12 at school, 6:30-9pm every Friday night during the school term with dinner provided.
Momentum+
Momentum+ happens alongside All Age Worship. It is a place for young people in year 6-9 at school to hang out, catch up, share in worship, and enjoy good food.
Activities are also provided during school holidays, including opportunities for involvement in the services.
MYC
MYC (Momentum Youth Camp) is a yearly youth camp held in the October school holidays for year 6-12. There are small groups, community time, worship and activities, including outdoors games and games nights.
Impact Camp
Impact Camp is a weekend of building community, learning about Jesus and having fun together for young adults. Held yearly in mid-February at Dzintari (Yankalilla), we are joined by a guest speaker focusing on impact – people and stories from the Bible that have and life with impact! Plus there are small groups, community time, food, worship and more.
Young Men’s Retreat
Calling all young men of Westbourne Park Uniting Church to our yearly Young Men’s Retreat. Beginning in 2022 with an overnight stay at Nunyara with Tim Littleford, each year takes a different format encouraging a time of rest, input or community service and most importantly, food (with food provided).
DISCIPLESHIP
Connect Women’s Conference
Connect Women’s Conference provides an opportunity to build community, spend time in sisterly fellowship and refocus on your personal relationship with God.
Be challenged and encouraged by our guest speaker; be nourished by the fellowship and worship with other women; be inspired through study or play in the electives; and be fed physically with morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea which are all provided.
Our previous themes were Connect (2020), Refresh Restore Renew (2021) and Flourish (2022), with the next Connect Women’s Conference in Autumn 2024.
All women are welcome to invite their family and friends.
Revive
Based on God’s promise for revival, Revive is a dedicated time of whole church community and Spirit-led worship.
Church Wide Studies
Our Church Wide Studies are preaching series’ with an emphasis on accompanying life group/small group content.
A previous study was entitled “Come, Holy Spirit” written by Rev. John Blanksby and is available under Resources.
Life Groups
Life Groups or also known as Small Groups, provide the opportunity to connect with community and with God’s word.
Most groups meet regularly on a weeknight either at church or in people’s home, while some groups are formed specially for Church Wide Studies with sign-up sheets available in the weeks leading up to the start of a new Study.
Below is an example of our regular groups:
Monday – Men, Young Women, and Young Adults
Tuesday – Women, and Young Adults
Wednesday – Youth, and Young Men
Friday – Women
SENIORS
OWLS (Older, Wiser, Livelier Seniors)
An opportunity for OWLS to join together for regular monthly coffee mornings through to organised events including attending the movies, a musical afternoon or a time in nature.
“Being a group that encourages seniors to come together for different functions and activities to share fellowship and to support each other.”
Resthaven
We have had a long relationship with Resthaven Westbourne Park through the decades, offering a monthly service, weekly visits and in recent years sharing our livestream services. On Sundays a small but passionate group of volunteers bring residents over to join us for Morning Tea prior to the commencement of our 11am Traditional Worship with Organ.
Communion at Home
Sharing in Holy Communion is one of our closest times with our Lord, and while this is shared once a month across all services, some in our community are unable to attend church. With an approved format for administering Communion, the team of Pastoral Visitors visit a number of Seniors in their homes; also, providing the opportunity to catch-up.
Men’s Coffee Morning
All men are invited to a Coffee Morning on the first Wednesday of every month, offering an opportunity to share in fellowship.
MISSION
Mission is loving in the community by various acts of service and by sharing the Good News of the gospel with them.
Some of the mission activities that we are currently involved with include:
Hindley Street and Schoolies Festival – Encounter Youth (Green Team)
Mitcham Inter-Church Council for Christmas and Easter presentations
The East Timor Project was officially launched on Saturday 28 June 2014. During the first 12 to 18 months, the focus was to raise funds to enable the building of 10 houses.
Since the launch it has been great to be able to celebrate the goal of $80,000 being raised and now surpassed; while 5 Mission Trips have elapsed, which means 35 people have gone to East Timor from our Sunday community, Thursday Craft, other churches and the wider community. Some team members have returned multiple times.
All team members were deeply and significantly impacted by their trip and a variety of activities/projects were achieved during their time away. There is so much for which to be thankful and to celebrate.
Kids Hope Australia
Kids Hope is a program that provides Churches with an opportunity to impact and serve their local community through a partnership with a local Primary School.
We are privileged to be involved with Westbourne Park Primary School and this program provides a wonderful opportunity to impact and serve our local community through a partnership with one of our local schools. The leadership team of the school are very excited about this partnership.
“…to engage with the community to help them see that the church is useful and that there are many who attend who have skills that they can use.”
OUTREACH
Thursday Craft
“Make new friends and learn a craft”
Classes are held each Thursday during school term from 9:30am – 12 noon. People of all ages are welcome to join, with a creche also available.
See Thursday Craft for more information.
Netball Club – WPUCNC
Winter netball is played on Saturday afternoons from March through to August. Summer games run from October through to Mark with the competition being divided across four nights (Tuesday – Friday).
Team are available for Juniors from 8 years and under to 15 years and under. Senior teams including from 17 and under to all ages. Boys are welcome up to and including 11 years and under.
This club is part of the South Australian United Church Netball Association.
Fit & Focussed
Two classes available per week during school terms with Deb Harrison, a physiotherapist, qualified fitness and pilates instructor.
Monday: 6.45pm – 8.00pm
A pilates mat class with balance and a resisted exercise component.
Friday: 9.15am – 10.30am
Aerobic warm-up and pilates mat class.
Road Hogs – Mens Cycling Group
The “Road Hogs” meet every Saturday starting at 7am. All are welcome. Ride at a moderate pace 40-50km with a coffee stop, plus there are the occasional adventure trips. They’re a very friendly bunch and cater for different abilities and riding styles.
SERVING OPPORTUNITIES
The activities and ministries of the church are administered by a large number of volunteers, each who gives of their skills and resources as part of their worship to God and to serve their community.
There are different kinds of services, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work – 1 Corinthians 12:5
We encourage regular members of the community who have made Westbourne Park Uniting Church their home, to prayerfully consider the right time to use their God-given skills to serve.
Opportunities to serve include:
Helping in welcoming and greet people as they arrive to a service
Help cook, serve or organise morning tea or supper
Sing, play music or lead the congregation in worship
Serve as an Elder or Church Council member to help make important decisions
Operate the Tech Desk – Sound, Camera and/or Projector
Arranging flowers for the church or join the gardening roster