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

Family Church meets at 10.00am, on the 2nd and 4th Sundays each month and Sunday Youth Group at 10am on the 1st and 3rd Sundays (except in school holidays).

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Response to our disaffiliation by the NSW/ACT Baptist Association, 3 May 2025

Canberra Baptist Church is deeply grieved by the decision, on the 3^rd May 2025, by the NSW/ACT Baptist Assembly to disaffiliate our church. We are also grieving over the disaffiliation of Hamilton Baptist Church.

We believe Christians follow Christ, first and foremost, and that marriage is a matter on which Christians, reading their Bibles thoughtfully and prayerfully, can reach different conclusions. We also believe Christians are called, in a tragically divided world, to demonstrate how to live together with difference.

For these reasons, we consider the NSW/ACT Association’s decision, in November 2022, requiring all Baptist churches and pastors to exclusively support a conservative definition of marriage, to be a serious error.

This statement was adopted without biblical or theological discussion or consideration of its pastoral impacts. Furthermore, to impose it on our churches and pastors is contrary to Baptist values of freedom of conscience and the autonomy of the local church.

We remain committed to association with other Baptist churches, and for this reason, in 2024, we joined the Open Baptists, a new movement of Baptist churches in Australia and New Zealand, open to the diversity of people God gathers into our churches and the diversity of ways God calls us to respond in our local contexts. For more on the Open Baptists, go to https://openbaptists.org/

We are thankful for the two years of transitional support the NSW/ACT Association is offering to disaffiliated churches. We pray for the ongoing health of the NSW/ACT Baptist Association and hope we can work constructively with parts of this Association, where possible, in the future.

Canberra Baptist Church believes that the Good News of Jesus is for all people without qualification, and we are deeply committed to creating a community of genuine welcome. Our commitment is that, led by the Spirit, we will explore what it means to follow Jesus together, build a caring, inclusive community and share God’s love and justice in our words and actions. Any Sunday – or any day of the week – you are welcome to come and join us!

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