NewLife Anglican : Oran Park

07/09/2026

Local help is here.

Join us up at the church on Wednesday this week 1-2pm for low cost groceries.

Our Anglicare Mobile Food Pantry will be making its fortnightly visit. Pay $15 and you’ll be able to take home a bag full of groceries plus a full range of free extras including veggies and tinned goods.

We love serving you - all are welcome and there’s no means test.

See you soon,

Lauren & the team.

01/09/2026

Sunday is Father’s Day and to celebrate we’re having a BBQ brekkie in-between our two morning services - at 10am.

If you’d like a bacon and egg roll jump on the link and purchase away 🙂

https://www.trybooking.com/DOUIQ

See you Sunday!

Lauren & the team.

31/08/2026

Hey NewLife family, two things for tomorrow:

1) September starts on Tuesday and we have a brand new reading plan for the month. Find it attached!

2) Tomorrow is also the start of this month’s Jesus for the Curious Course. It runs for four weeks on a Tuesday night up at the church from 6:30-8pm. Who’s welcome? Those who have questions. Those who have doubts. Those who have mates who have either of those things!

Enjoy reading and I hope to catch you up at the church.

Grace and peace,

Stuart.

25/08/2026

We’re looking forward to having Rev Mark Gilbert join us for a shared training evening as we think about what some of the distinctives of Catholicism are and how to best share with our Catholic neighbours. We look forward to being joined by others from local churches.

Growing up as a committed Roman Catholic, Mark Gilbert first heard the Gospel at university in 1997. After completing Medicine and working as a GP he completed a B.Div at MTC in 2006 and is an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney where he works for Evangelism Ministries, Certainty4Eternity, and for his local Church in Manly where he serves as an evangelist and trainer.

Mark partners with churches, trains evangelists and produces resources to help Christians with their Evangelism and Discipleship of people with a Roman Catholic Background. Mark is also a founding member and Faculty of the Rome Scholars and Leaders Network and speaks nationally and internationally on Roman Catholicism.

Some of his publications include: The God who Saves, The Road Once Travelled, Stepping out in Faith, and Talking with Catholics about Jesus. All available from Matthias Media.

We look forward to seeing you at church at 7:30pm Wednesday 25th August.

Grace and peace,

Stuart.

24/08/2026

Exciting news! It's great seeing our suburb keep expanding and we know there's need for more places as we see Oran Park Public and Barramurra Public bulging at the seams alongside the full primary at Oran Park Anglican College.

Please join us in praying for the work to go ahead in a timely manner and for God to appoint the right person to lead what will be a vital part of our local community.

Grace and peace,

Stuart & the team.

Oran Park is getting a new public school!

A new primary school is being planned for Oran Park (north of the town centre). The new school will accommodate 1000 students and will include 44 classrooms, 7 support learning classrooms, library, multipurpose hall and co-located public early learning.

An information session is being held on Wednesday 2 September where you can view the masterplan and concept designs.

The session will be held in the Oran Park Public School Library. Drop in any time between 4.30pm and 6pm.

Register at edu.nsw.link/OranParkNorthInfoSession

24/08/2026

We love serving our community.

Join us for our Mobile Food Pantry this Wednesday from 1-2pm up at the church - (NewLife Anglican Church) Central Avenue underneath the big coloured tower.

Everyone is welcome and your $15 buys a bag full of groceries from the van to which you can add from our piles of fresh veggies and other items we offer for free.

We look forward to seeing you there for a cuppa and a chat whilst you wait for your number to be called.

See you soon,

Lauren & the team.

17/08/2026

Yesterday we had the privilege of celebrating the retirement of Steve Davis from our staff team. After 47 years of faithful service across at least 6 Parishes Steve takes this step with the full support of Ros and with our prayers and blessings for what’s next.

Throughout his time with us Steve has showed himself to be prayerful, humble, thoughtful, deeply read, deeply devoted to people, and above all deeply committed to His ever faithful Lord Jesus. Across all three services we heard Steve and Ros give testimony to God’s goodness and sustaining grace across the decades and through the depths and heights of a life lived in devoted service.

It’s been wonderful having Steve as part of our team from 2020 and we are thankful he and Ros will continue as part of our church family. I’m sure you’ll join me in praying these words over their next steps;

“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.“(Romans 12:11-13 NIV11)

Grace and peace,

Stuart & the team.

11/08/2026

Get local help here!

We’d love to see you this Wednesday 1-2pm for our Mobile Food Pantry.

Your $15 will purchase a bag full of groceries. You’ll also meet our awesome team who have a smile ready with a cuppa, a chat, and a bite to eat.

We look forward to seeing you at NewLife on Central Avenue under the big glass tower.

Catch you soon,

Lauren & the team.

05/08/2026

Hey NewLife family and friends,

Advice from our Sydney Anglican leaders is to make an effort to mark your religion in the Census as Anglican.

Although at first this might sound counter-intuitive Bishop Stead explains;

“We've encouraged people to think of their primary identity as in Christ, not as Anglican,” he said. “That's true, but when it comes to the Census, it's important to know how many Anglican Christians there are, because that headline number is used by the government, as it thinks about things like hospital chaplaincy funding and school ministries and aged care provision and things like that.

“So to have an accurate measure of the number of people who identify as Anglican Christians, it is important for people to tick the Anglican box.”

(Read the full article https://bit.ly/4hAgdur - and the youtube chat here: https://youtu.be/6ILowyy1KXs?si=YmGme7z9R0LYSrzH)

Grace and peace,

Stuart & the team.

28/07/2026

Read the greatest letter ever written - twice!

That's the encouragement this August as we embark on reading through Paul's letter to the church in Rome one chapter a day.

Grab your copy and follow the instructions - pray, read, and reflect. You might even find that what you read needs to be shared with those around you!

Download the PDF here: https://bit.ly/3REI55L

I look forward to embarking on this journey with you starting August 1st.

Grace and peace,

Stuart.