St Thomas Anglican Church

07/06/2026

A service of tradition, with spirit-filled worship time to delve deeply into God's word.

05/06/2026

ArtWalk on the Hill is TONIGHT! 🎨✨

Come from 5pm to enjoy artists exhibition, market stalls, live music, delicious food and a great evening out for the whole family with plenty of space to sit and relax.

🍴 Grab dinner or a treat from:
• The Cob Shop
• Dept Fire Slushies 🚒 (bring the kids to sit in the fire engine and grab a photo!)
• Tastylicious Gozleme

🎶 Enjoy live performances from:
• Kyle & Michaeli
• Sarah & Hannah
• Amara Paige
• Aran Dennis

Tag your friends and make plans to join us for a fantastic evening celebrating art, music, food, and community!

04/06/2026

⏰ 1 DAY TO GO! ⏰

ArtWalk on the Hill is TOMORROW! 🎨✨

Come along from 5pm and enjoy a local artists exhibition, market stalls, live music, delicious food and a great evening out for the whole family with plenty of space to sit and relax.

🍴 Grab dinner or a treat from:
• The Cob Shop
• Dept Fire Slushies 🚒 (bring the kids to sit in the fire engine and grab a photo!)
• Tastylicious Gozleme
• Tropical Sno

🎶 Enjoy live performances from:
• Kyle & Michaeli
• Sarah & Hannah
• Amara Paige
• Aran Dennis

Tag your friends and make plans to join us for a fantastic evening celebrating art, music, food, and community!

01/06/2026

This Trinity Sunday, we reflected on God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; God whose very nature is relationship, love, and communion.

As we journeyed through the Ascension, Pentecost, and now Trinity Sunday, we saw that God is continually drawing people into communion with Godeself and with one another. The Son returns to the Father, the Holy Spirit is poured out upon the Church, and Christ remains present with his people.

This matters because we live in a world that often tells us we should be self-sufficient, that needing other people is somehow a weakness. Yet that is not what we see in Scripture, nor is it what we see in the life of God. We were created for relationships: with God and with one another.

So, if God has always existed in relationship, what might that tell us about the kind of people we are called to become?

Blessings,
Emma

31/05/2026

✨ ArtWalk on the Hill is getting closer! ✨

Join us for an unforgettable evening of light, art, music, food and community as St Thomas comes alive with a spectacular digital light show, local art exhibition, live performances, food trucks, markets and more.

Bring your family, meet friends, enjoy dinner on the grounds and be part of a celebration of generations, legacy and creativity.

📅 Friday 5th June 2026
⏰ 5pm–9pm
📍 St Thomas Anglican Church

Free entry. All welcome.

29/05/2026

As we come to celebrating Trinity Sunday, I thought to share a helpful video from The Bible Project team who have helped to communicate a way in which to understand how the church has come to understand the three persons of the Trinity.

The substance of the conversations over 2000 years has centered on the way in which we define God as one divine being in essence and substance, yet existing eternally as three distinct persons. The challenge is not to overemphasize the three persons (leading us to worshipping three separate gods), nor reducing God to one person wearing three different masks.

Wrestling with understanding how God is expressed as both One and Three preserves the ultimate paradox of being in relationship with God as a single, undivided divine being, who is simultaneously and eternally defined as a loving, relational community that we're born out of and are invited, by Jesus death on the cross, to be reconciled back into for eternity.

However, while it is important to wrestle to get this theologically accurate, we also wrestle with it to get it relationally accurate. It is not uncommon to be within a church and never understand how the bible reveals that God desires we interact with each person of the Trinity. Yet this can be confusing (even for some pastors). If God sent Jesus, and Jesus sent the Spirit, and the Spirit leads us into all truth and speaks Jesus words (John 16:13), yet Paul says (1 Tim 2:5) that Jesus is our mediator, and Jesus said to pray to God our Father (Matt 6:6) - who do we converse with in prayer and does it matter?

Ultimately scripture reveals God is a divine and loving community of which we are invited to daily commune with all three persons of which each within the Godhead enables us to know (and be known). If you feel disconnected from any persons of the Trinity, I invite you this Sunday to seek prayer - ask God to help you fully embrace a relationship with our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier.

The God portrayed in the Bible isn’t easy to understand, but what i...

27/05/2026

This week we celebrated Pentecost and the Holy Spirit who comes alongside us as our comforter, councillor, advocate, encourager. The Holy Spirit reminds us that God is not distant from us, but rather present in our daily lives and through every season, bringing peace in anxiety, strength in weakness, truth when we feel uncertain, and communion when we feel alone.

Pentecost was the beginning of something completely life-changing for the disciples, and it can be for us too as long as we allow God to continue working in us. Faith is not meant to stay static or comfortable. It grows, changes us, refines us, renews us, and calls us outward in love toward others.

So, I wonder what might change in our lives if we truly lived as though the Holy Spirit was with us, in us and alongside us every day?

- Emma

24/05/2026

Our church and church hall were beautifully decorated for Pentecost by some of our ladies and we were treated to a hat parade from our kids.