Bangalow - Byron Bay

Welcome to the Bangalow - Byron Bay Uniting Churches 

Bangalow-Byron Bay Uniting Church is a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia situated in the beautiful Byron Shire on the Far North Coast of NSW.
Our Churches are a place where lives are changed through worship, learning, and community, and where people are empowered to change the world and make it a better place, following the example and teachings of Jesus.
Our congregations are dynamic, down-to-earth groups of people seeking spiritual nourishment, meaningful relationships, and ways to use their talents, skills, and knowledge to serve others.
We hope to meet you at worship, a special event, service project, or around the community! 
The Bangalow-Byron Bay Uniting Church gather for worship in two locations. For further information or to enquire about events or Hall hire, please see the website for the relevant church:

Gathered Worship  

We gather to worship most weeks at Byron Bay (9.30am) and Bangalow (5pm). If you are interested in joining us please contact us via the "Contact us" tab above to confirm our meeting times for that week.

Easter Services

Harvest Festival & Auction

Sunday 5th March 5pm 

Bangalow UCA

 

Open Church

Our church in Byron Bay is open at the following times:

Open Church: Tuesday 9:30am-11:30am Byron Bay UCA (On a pause until Feb 2023)

Rev Phil will be present along with a volunteer who can offer a cuppa and something to eat. The space is available for a chat, prayer, meditation or reflection. This is also a time when anyone from our church community can drop in to say hi to their minister as well! So if you want to stop in and say hello or to chat or pray, please do so.

We hope to see you there over the next few weeks.

Recent Events

 

We are back!!!

After 6 months of not gathering in our buildings for worship due to COVID-19, the Church Councils of the Byron Shire Uniting Churches have both decided that it is time to regather for worship in our buildings. Over recent months the Councils have been preparing COVIDSafe plans and considering advice from our NSW/ACT Synod leaders as we have journeyed towards re-gathering. Due to the current protocols and requirements for public gatherings for worship, our gatherings will look and feel different to pre-COVID-19, so please familiarise yourself with the requirements before joining us in our buildings for gathered worship (these are included in this link).

During Lockdown

During periods of lockdown services will be recorded and can be viewed at the following links.

Links to live-streamed services:

26 September 2021:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/868665420439834

 5 September 2021:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/242674584417665

29 August 2021:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/3083374271952379

22 August 2021:  

 https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/936463076903378

15 August 2021: 

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/1905298439642771

Worship Services (Taped)

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 20 December 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/848136585979494

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 13 December 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/192900765808176

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 6 December 2020 please go to:

Coming soon

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 29 November 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/4000114393349555

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 22 November 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/680969215877111

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 15 November 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/1042836236222625

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 8 November 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/123443104482886/videos/472991740340359

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 1 November 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/1267660313617397

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 25 October 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BangalowByronBayUnitingChurch/videos/768577973689116

To view the recording from Mullumbimby of the Closure of Ministry Service for Rev Greer Dokmanovic from 18 October 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/2278441622300064

To view the recording from the Bangalow Service on 5 October 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/2732387683747799

Worship Services (Live-streamed services):

To join our live services each Sunday at 9.30am go to the Brunswick Valley Uniting Church Facebook page.

To view the service from 27 September 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/1463860277148664 

To view the service from 20 September 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/2293645194114847

To view the service from 13 September 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/1059387924496530

To view the service from 6 September 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/4006103339405637

To view the service from 30 August 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/808729726607807

To view the service from 23 August 2020 please go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKsuVkS0KI

To view the service from 16 August 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/1293642007511358

To view the service from 9 August 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/216518986426680/

To view the service from 2 August 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/314517319737993/

To view the service from 26 July 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/855266128333612/

To view the service from 19 July 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/281852836371410/

To view the service from 12 July 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/583977355872102/

To view the service from 5 July 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1726004720873153

To view the service from 28 June 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/3124690630902947

To view the service from 21 June 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=677219436168131

To view the service from 14 June 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/262242711862983/

To view the service from 7 June 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/2636744189919138/

To view the service from 31 May 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/2636121869980034/

To view the service from 24 May 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/976162846136458/

To view the service from 17 May 2020 please go to:

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/184002059465319/

To view the service from 10 May 2020 please go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/913776179094511/

To view the service from 3 May 2020 please go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/567517167218265/

To view the service from 26 April 2020 please go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/910245452758830/

To view the service from 19 April 2020 please go to: 

https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch/videos/248045519580678/

Daily Services

*** Currently on a break ***

 

COVID-19 Notice:

As of today (20 March 2020) in light of strong recommendations from the Uniting Church Synod NSW/ACT, in response to the COVID-19 situation our church facilities will not be used for gatherings or our regular ministry groups and activities. This includes our gathered worship on a Sunday.
 
Please join us at 9:30am on Sunday mornings on our Brunswick Valley Facebook Page for our live-streamed worship service.
https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickValleyUnitingChurch
 
We look forward to connecting and worshipping with you in new and creative ways over this time!

Dates for Your Diary:

Please note all current events are suspended until further notice due to the COVID-19 situation.

 

RETREAT DAYS

All are invited to our Fresh Expressions retreat days in 2020, held in Brunswick Heads. 
Saturdays, 10am-4pm. Lunch & afternoon tea provided. Suggested donation: $30-50. Register with Greer.

HUSH Retreat Days: 1st February, 4th April, 4th July,17th October

At a HUSH retreat day you will be invited to hush the noise of day-to-day life, and quieten the spirit, through guided meditation and reflection. Space will be provided to  explore a variety of stations, exploring spirituality through creativity, words (our own and others'), with music and with silence.
 

EMBODY Retreat Days: 14th March, 30th May, 29th August, 28th November

EMBODY is an exploration of embodied spiritual practice through movement, voice, singing, telling, and stillness, all within an ethic of play.  We use the incremental forms of InterPlay to connect, create, and rest. Come and unlock the wisdom of your body. No experience necessary.

Dementia Course

UNITING WOMEN: 9th-12th July, 2020, in Darwin.

All women are invited to attend the Uniting Women conference in Darwin, held in July this year. Uniting Women 2020 will be a conference shaped and informed by Indigenous women’s spirituality. Greer is attending, so please let her know if you are keen to join her. Costs: Individual (twin share) - $500; Individual (private room) - $686; Group* (twin share) - $470. More details at: unitingwomen.org.au

EMBODY

A Fresh Expression Ministry at Brunswick Heads

On the 1st AND 3rd WednesdayS of the month, Greer will be facilitating a new ministry in the Bruns space that will be an intentional time for embodied spirituality. Using the InterPlay forms (no experience necessary), all who come will be invited to explore and play with their experience and expression of spirituality, in and through our bodies. We will dance, move, sing, voice, tell, and play, on our own and with others, not as performance but as process. This will be an intentionally open and inclusive space, celebrating diverse expressions of age, culture, sexuality, gender, physical-ability, denomination and faith. All are welcome!

Fair Trade Fair Report

 

On Saturday 3rd November months of contacting, organising and advertising culminated in the Bangalow Uniting Church Fair Trade Fair. Although we regularly hold pre-Christmas street stalls selling Fair Trade goods, which have quite a following in Bangalow, this was our first attempt at a bigger better fair with other Fair Traders invited.
 The Variety of Fair Trade goodies was excellent and we were well supported by locals who enthusiastically bought up big whilst enjoying Phil’s excellent Fair Trade coffee and munching on Bangalow ladies’ cakes and slices (not to be missed). The Raise the Roof choir performed twice and were absolutely fantastic.Their home grown Fair Trade song is now doing the rounds of Facebook Fair Trade groups and gaining them fame! 
The Fair traders who came were impressed with the enthusiasm of Northern Rivers locals and are keen to do it again next year. It was great to see the church car park full of people and the church engaged in promoting an important social justice issue.
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the day or just came and bought things!
Corinne Nash
       

 

Fair Trade Fortnight

Bangalow Church ran a poster competition for local school children and donated prizes. The posters created by the children were displayed in shops all around Bangalow, and on the side of the Church for Fair Trade Fortnight.

Even thought Fairtrade Fortnight has finished for this year we hope that next time you shop, you will look for the Fairtrade Mark and remove the shadow of doubt about where your groceries came from. 

The next Fairtrade event will be the Fair Trade Fair in Bangalow on 3 November. 

   

Farmer's drought appeal...

A huge thank you to everyone who gave so generously throughout the week long drought appeal. The combined total from the Byron Bay Op Shop, the Market Day at the Mullumbimby Op Shop, and the offerings at all churches on Sunday 19th August means that we will be contributing over $7000 toward the Farmers Drought Appeal.