Wauchope Uniting Church

Wauchope Uniting Church Wauchope Uniting Church is a congregation in the Mid North Coast Presbytery of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Wauchope Uniting Church is located in the beautiful Hastings River district, 25 minutes from Port Macquarie. Originally a timber town, Wauchope now is largely a rural industry area, famous for its Farmers' Market and for Timbertown, a 19th recreation of an authentic pioneer timber village. Characterised by friendly, .welcoming people, Wauchope is a place where life is that bit more relaxed, and wh

ere community spirit is still evident. The Wauchope church is an engaged and vital participant in the local community

Celebrating Fifty Years of a unique Australian resourceCelebrating 50 years of With Love to the World, a unique Australi...
08/03/2026

Celebrating Fifty Years of a unique Australian resource

Celebrating 50 years of With Love to the World, a unique Australian-produced daily Bible reading resource...

Celebrating 50 years of With Love to the World, a unique Australian-produced daily Bible reading resource

A Reflection for A Day of Mourning 2025
18/01/2026

A Reflection for A Day of Mourning 2025

In just over a week, on 26 January, no doubt many people around Australia will gather to cook at the BBQ and swim in the surf. Families and friends will enjoy a relaxing time on a public holiday. S…

“The young woman will conceive and bear a son”: a sign that is vague, nebulous, and longtermA sermon on Isaiah 7:10–16 a...
21/12/2025

“The young woman will conceive and bear a son”: a sign that is vague, nebulous, and longterm

A sermon on Isaiah 7:10–16 and Matthew 1:18–25, for the fourth Sunday in Advent, preached by the Rev. Elizabeth Raine at Dungog Uniting Church on 21 December 2025. The gospel of Luke so dominates the Christmas season that only occasionally are we afforded an opportunity to experience the birth of Christ from a perspective other than Luke's. So I am quite happy that here on the last Sunday of Advent, we are given a chance to hear the story from a different perspective, that of Joseph, the husband of Mary....

A sermon on Isaiah 7:10–16 and Matthew 1:18–25, for the fourth Sunday in Advent, preached by the Rev. Elizabeth Raine at Dungog Uniting Church on 21 December 2025. The gospel of Luke so d…

Antisemitism: yes, it’s about legislation—but more, it’s about our cultureIt’s less than a week since the tragic mass sh...
19/12/2025

Antisemitism: yes, it’s about legislation—but more, it’s about our culture

It’s less than a week since the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach. In the days since then, we have seen very public displays of shock, grief, fear, anger, blame, rage, and other strong emotions. So many comments rip over into recrimination and dehumanisation. It’s been savage. Alongside all of this, there has also been a deep admiration for those who attempted to stop the shooting by intervening—at the cost of their lives, in one instance, and incurring significant wounds, in another case....

It’s less than a week since the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach. In the days since then, we have seen very public displays of shock, grief, fear, anger, blame, rage, and other strong emotions. …

They are part of the whole of us
15/12/2025

They are part of the whole of us

What has happened at Bondi Beach is a tragedy. Many are grieving, many are injured; many will be traumatised, many will be more anxious and more afraid of life in Australian society. Amongst other …

Truly God and truly human: the reason for the season
13/12/2025

Truly God and truly human: the reason for the season

The Chalcedonian Creed was adopted at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 in Asia Minor as a response to certain heretical views concerning the nature of Christ. It sets forth a complex philosophical u…

Expectations: a key theme for AdventWhat follows is a piece that I wrote a few weeks back for Ruminations, the quarterly...
11/12/2025

Expectations: a key theme for Advent

What follows is a piece that I wrote a few weeks back for Ruminations, the quarterly journal of Saltbush, which is a ministry that resources rural and regional Uniting Churches in the Synod of NSW and the ACT. I wrote it just at the time when “expectations” were swirling around the church; I’m publishing it now as the theme of Expectations…...

What follows is a piece that I wrote a few weeks back for Ruminations, the quarterly journal of Saltbush, which is a ministry that resources rural and regional Uniting Churches in the Synod of NSW …

I preached this sermon, a reflection on the apocalyptic words of Jesus reported in Luke 21, at Dungog Uniting Church on ...
16/11/2025

I preached this sermon, a reflection on the apocalyptic words of Jesus reported in Luke 21, at Dungog Uniting Church on 16 November 2025. Conflict. Aggression. Upheaval. Disaster. Destruction. Catastrophe. A cosmic conflagration, as there are “great earthquakes, famines and plagues … dreadful portents and great signs from heaven … on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves”....

I preached this sermon, a reflection on the apocalyptic words of Jesus reported in Luke 21, at Dungog Uniting Church on 16 November 2025.  Conflict. Aggression. Upheaval. Disaster. Destruction…

At this time of the year, every year, the Revised Common Lectionary offers us passages from the Gospels that are strikin...
13/11/2025

At this time of the year, every year, the Revised Common Lectionary offers us passages from the Gospels that are strikingly vivid and dramatic. Each year we end “the church’s year” with an excerpt from the long apocalyptic speech that Jesus delivered to his disciples, some time after they had arrived in the city of Jerusalem. And so, this coming Sunday we will read Luke 21:5–19....

At this time of the year, every year, the Revised Common Lectionary offers us passages from the Gospels that are strikingly vivid and dramatic. Each year we end “the church’s year” with an excerpt …

Discussion of the Narrative Lectionary passage from Amos...
04/11/2025

Discussion of the Narrative Lectionary passage from Amos...

Discussion of the Narrative Lectionary passage from Amos

On remembering, celebrating, and contextualising (Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls) … and Samhain.
31/10/2025

On remembering, celebrating, and contextualising (Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls) … and Samhain.

Today, 31 October, begins a special sequence of days, which in traditional Roman Catholic piety form a triduum (simply meaning, “three days”). There is one set of three days that is very well-known…

“We thank you for the ministry you have exercised”. A service of Closure of Ministry.
29/10/2025

“We thank you for the ministry you have exercised”. A service of Closure of Ministry.

Elizabeth and I have just attended the Closure of Ministry service at which the Rev. Jane Fry concluded her years of service as the Secretary of the Synod of NSW.ACT—or, as Elizabeth referred to it…

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Hastings Street
Wauchope, NSW
2446

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Friday 12pm - 1:30pm
3pm - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 10am

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