Our Stories

Michelle Mitchell, Grassroots Placemakers community placemaker shares a story of one of her community placemaking developments at Mirvac’s Olivine in Donnybrook.

Camberwell Baptist Church’s Generations Pastor Hannah Grigg shares the highlights of joining youth groups with Canterbury Baptist Church.

Rev. Stephen Field, Senior Pastor at Canterbury Baptist Church (Melbourne) reflects on how COVID “blew up” his church and how, through the BUV Mission Catalyst’s Revitalisation Program, they were able to bounce back. Part one of two.

The Westgate Baptist Community makes small contributions to caring for the environment and for each other, leading to a big impact in their local community.

Thirteen months ago, the congregation of Newport Baptist Church, led by Pastor Julie Hunt, warmly welcomed into their church membership, a group of Slovakian Baptists (8 in total) after their previous church, Kingsville Baptist Church, made the courageous and difficult decision to permanently close.

Rev Ken Manley celebrated his 60th anniversary since his ordination as a Baptist pastor. As Australia’s foremost Baptist historian, Ken’s commitment to living, teaching, researching and writing the Baptist story is a truly remarkable one.

On Saturday, 2 July youth and young adults from our BUV multicultural churches attended our Ignite 2022 Conference at Werribee Baptist Church. It was an incredible opportunity for the 1.5 and 2nd generation migrant young people to come together for the one-day conference where they celebrated the diversity of our church communities — worshipping God together as one and many.

Phil Hudson shares his touching story on how God has brought him to this place of friendship with refugees.

The Holy Transfiguration Monastery and the Karen and Vietnamese communities are beginning to discover each other in deeper and more mutually supportive ways.