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St Barnabas Anglican

Sunnybank, Qld

Parish Profile September 2019

St Barnabas, Sunnybank (Qld) – Parish Profile – Sep 2019 2 of 12

Vision

A church alive with the spirit of the Lord as he leads us to truth and uses us to the glory of his name here at St Barnabas Anglican Church. Love Christ Live Like Christ Lead the Lost to Christ


Contents

Contents Where are we.......................................................................................................................................... 4

The Parish and Local Area ....................................................................................................................... 5

Parish Boundaries ............................................................................................................................... 5

Demography of the Area..................................................................................................................... 6

The Parish Community ............................................................................................................................ 7

A Snapshot of Parish History ............................................................................................................... 7

Worship Services ................................................................................................................................. 8

The Faith Community at St Barnabas.................................................................................................. 8

Parish Activities ................................................................................................................................... 9

Resources .............................................................................................................................................. 10

Financial Position .............................................................................................................................. 10

Parish Staffing Going Forward .......................................................................................................... 10

Property ............................................................................................................................................ 11

A Rector For St Barnabas ...................................................................................................................... 12


Where are we

Sunnybank Parish is located in the southern suburbs of Brisbane City, approximately fifteen kilometres south of the Brisbane CBD

Address: 189 Lister St, Sunnybank QLD 4109 Phone: (07) 3345 1535 Email: [email protected] Website: www.sunnybankanglican.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunnybankAnglicanParish/

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The Parish and Local Area

Parish Boundaries

The parish is bounded roughly by Kessels Road, Beaudesert Road, Compton Road and Logan Road. It encompasses the suburbs of

Sunnybank, Robertson, MacGregor, Coopers Plains, Acacia Ridge, Sunnybank Hills, Runcorn, Eight Mile Plains, Kuraby and Underwood

St. Barnabas is centrally situated in Sunnybank being on the crest of Lister Street approximately one kilometre from Mains Road, which dissects our area. It is situated five minutes’ walk from both train and bus Within the parish boundaries are

• Five major district shopping hubs at Garden City, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills (2) and Underwood.

• A number of Early Learning centres (Child Care centres)

• State Primary and Secondary Schools, Church and Independent Schools.

• Griffith University (Nathan Campus) is situated on Kessels Road.

• There is a major public hospital, a large private hospital, together with specialist centres, pathology and x-ray facilities.

• Five large retirement villages offer independent and serviced facilities, and some have nursing assistance.


Demography of the Area

The data below comes from the 2016 Census Quickstats’ pages. The table combines the data for the ten suburbs that make up the Parish

2016 CENSUS SUNNYBANK

PARISH QLD

General

Population 95,674 4,703,197

Medium Age 33 37

Indigenous People 1.2% 4.0%

Educational Attainment

TAFE Cert / Diploma 16% 27%

Higher Ed Qual 25% 18%

Birth / First Language

Both parents born Overseas 63% 26%

Speak English only in home 43% 81%

Country of birth

Australia 37.2% 71.1%

China 13.5% 2.1%

India 5.9% 1.0%

Taiwan 5.3% 0.3%

Korea 3.8% 0.4%

New Zealand 3.3% 4.3%

Vietnam 1.8% 0.6%

Religious Affiliation

No Religion or not stated 38% 39%

Highest Christian denominations

Catholic 15% 22%

Anglican 6% 15%

Highest Non-Christian

Islam 8% 1.0%

Buddhism 6% 1.5%

Hinduism 4% 1.0%

Sikhism 3% 0.4%

The largest groupings are shown, many more nationalities are represented. With only 37% of residents born in Australia, this is one of the most multicultural areas of Brisbane. There are many Cultural festivals in the area throughout the year. The Chinese community is the largest of the international groupings. Residents have access to a diverse range of churches including Hillsong, all major Christian denominations and many foreign language churches. The number of churches, and the congregation size of the ethnic churches have grown significantly over the past two decades. The 63% of people with both parents born overseas includes a large number from the British Isles.


The Parish Community

A Snapshot of Parish History

Key events in the history of the parish.

1887 Lister St blocks of land purchased (3 of the 5 currently owned blocks). In years leading up to 1918, services held in homes and in the United Protestant Hall (Beenleigh Road)

1916 Originally under the direction of the Anglican Church Mission In 1916, Sunnybank Anglican Church, along with Yeronga, came under the care of St Andrew’s, South Brisbane.

1917 Sunnybank became part of the Yeronga Parish when it was formed.

1918 The original Church building was erected during 1917. It was dedicated in April 1918

1929 Sunnybank Parish was formed – An area that stretched south to Beenleigh.

1931 Beenleigh became the centre of the Parish, then renamed St George’s Beenleigh.

1959 Northern part of the Beenleigh Parish separated to form the current Sunnybank Parish. This parish also originally included the area that is now the Parish of Algester.

1977 Current church building at Sunnybank commenced construction. The congregations at Coopers Plains, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Eight Mile Plains were consolidated into one congregation at Sunnybank.

Vicars, Rectors and Priests in Charge, since formation of the current Sunnybank Parish

1959 Keith Rayner (Vicar),

1963 N, Bevan (Vicar),

1967 Doug Laver (Vicar),

1974 John Naumann (Rector).

1985 John Noble (Rector).

1990 Michael Ingall appointed Rector. (Until 2002).

2003 Dennis Bell, appointed Priest in Charge, subsequently became Rector. (until 2007),

2008 Trevor Adams PIC -> Rector. (Until Nov 2015).

2016 Stephen Hooper commissioned as PIC (November 2016).

Recent assistant clergy/curates

2006 There were no assistant clergy from 2006 - 2014

2014 Brian Derbyshire was assigned to the parish in a part-time assistant priest capacity. This role of approx. 10 – 15 hours/wk was continued until mid-2018.

2017 Peter Jeffery commenced Curate position. A two-year placement (ends Dec 2019).


Worship Services

There are weekly services (where A Prayer Book for Australia is used), some less frequent but regular services, and the Parish celebrates the usual extra services associated with Easter and Christmas.

Weekly Services

Wednesday 9:30 am Second Order 10 - 15

Saturday 6:00 pm Second Order 15 - 20

Sunday 7:00 am 9:00 am

First Order Second Order

40 – 55 45 – 70

Other Services

Friday 7:00 pm ‘Prayer & Praise’ Once a month

Sunday 5:30 pm ‘Ablaze Service’ Three-monthly

Information regarding Worship Services:

• A children’s program is conducted in the hall during the 9:00 am Sunday service.

• The last Sunday 9:00 am service of the month is run as an ‘All In’ service. This service has a children’s focus, and the children stay in during the full length of that service.

• Baptismal services of families with connection to the church are held in the service that the family has most connection with. Baptismal services of families wholly unconnected to the life of the church are held in a separate service.

• From the first Sunday after Christmas until the end of January, there is only one service held each week. That is held at 8:00 am on Sunday.

• Currently, the church has a choir, a singing group and a youth orchestra. Each of these occasionally takes part in the Sunday 9:00 am and 5:30 pm services.

• A role is played by the priest in supporting services in aged-care facilities in the Parish.

• The ‘Ablaze’ service has strong music focus. It is also based on the second order of the APBA.

The Faith Community at St Barnabas

The Parish has approximately 180 people on the church roll. During Christmas and Easter there can be more than that number in church. In a regular week, over the four weekly services, the total number of communicants will be between 100 and 120. The congregation can be described as diverse in several ways. Ethnically, theologically and liturgically, there is a range. Also, there are four different ‘flavours’ to the four different weekly congregations, but the differences are small. People from the different ecclesiastical approaches coexist very well, with respect and tolerance across differences. There have been issues that could have acted to arouse division, but so far these have been managed well and have not caused problems. The age profile of the congregation is toward the older end. Many people are over 60 years of age. There are smaller numbers of young adults and children. There is a youth group held each Friday evening. Most of the youth are not from church families.


Parish Activities

The following are our current regular activities:

• Wednesday Study group – Run in four to six-week segments. Each series has a life issue focus.

• Lenten studies

• Care & Share Group

• Know Your Bible

• Ladies Breakfast Groups

• Mothers Union Australia

• TESOL – Teaching of English to people who are new to the language

• RE in schools (in conjunction with the Church of Christ)

• Youth Group Ministry Supporting Groups

• Pastoral Care Group

• Sunday Children’s program group

• Light Refreshments Group

• Sidesman roster for Sunday services (Readers, welcoming, collection etc)

• LAs and Server’s roster

• Brass cleaning group

• Grounds and mowing roster – weekly roster and occasional working bees as required

• Maintenance management Group (PC sub-committee)

• Youth group support team Child Service’s Centres

• Outside School Hours Care (OHSC). Provides for school age children, before and after school. Vacation care is run during school holiday periods. The OSHC operates within the Lister St buildings, children are picked up by bus from local schools. (Max 40 children)

• Early learning centre (SAELC). Provides for children eighteen months to five years of age. Conducted in a rented premises two blocks from church premises. (Max 50 children)

• These two services are currently under a recently restructured management committee, that includes congregation and parent representatives. The Licenses are held by the diocese, the church administers the Diocesan licenses.


Resources

Financial Position

Church income has been reasonably stable for a few years. There has been a small increase over the past two years. The principal sources of income are:

• Offerings

• Rental from the two church residences

• Rental from hire of the hall

• Rental from the OSHC

• Rental from MU shop

• Contribution from SAELC

• Fundraising

• Diocesan contribution to support curate In January 2017 a youth worker was engaged (part-time), and in November 2017 a Curate was accepted (with a subsidy from the Diocese). The extra staffing has been appreciated by the church, but the income has not risen to accommodate that level of staffing. The drain on funds cannot be sustained. Our current income is adequate to support one full-time Priest in Charge (/Rector), associated necessary ancillary services and essential costs, including:

• part-time office and ancillary support,

• necessary expenditure for routine maintenance,

• office equipment and supplies

• essential services (Electricity, phone, etc)

• ministry resources

• provision of funds set aside to allow for unexpected major maintenance and equipment replacement. Note: The church currently has funds set aside to cover equipment replacement, major

routine maintenance requirements and contingency for unforeseen future major expenditures. On top of these funds, there is also a small surplus.

Parish Staffing Going Forward

Considering the above, regarding finances and income, going forward the church’s staffing will consist of:

• Priest in Charge (/Rector).

• Locums to cover services when priest is on leave.

• Part-time office support (20 hours).

• Ancillary support (bookkeeping / cleaning/ grounds). A few hours per fortnight for each.


Property

The church owns two properties. There is a residence in Eight Mile Plains, and one on the Lister St property.

• The residence in Eight Mile Plains, is a four-bedroom brick and tile home. (currently rented)

• The Sunnybank property has two street frontages, Lister St and Young St. The property consists of five house blocks. There are four buildings on that property: o The church - seats approximately 300 (the building at the front of photo). o A 4-bedroom brick and tile residence – to the left of the church (currently rented) o A hall – directly behind church. The hall roof has solar cells fitted. o Church office and the OSHC share the fourth building (rear of photo)

Either of the residences can be made available for the new PIC.

All the above property is fully owned by St Barnabas. The church’s early learning centre, the ‘Sunnybank Anglican Early Learning Centre’ (SAELC), is conducted in a property that the church rents from the Qld Govt, in a nearby location (Everest St).


A Rector For St Barnabas

Given the makeup of the St Barnabas’ congregation, and the context of the Parish, we see the following qualities as being important:

The Individual

• Broad life experience; its joys, its trials and its successes.

• Flexible and resilient.

• Rigorously truthful and coherent.

• A deep understanding of how the gospel intertwines with contemporary life.

• Facilitative leadership approach.

• Ability to wisely delegate.

• Able to give and to receive support, to teach and to learn.

• Vital faith and committed to ongoing development of their spirituality.

Ministry within the faith community

• Good ability to listen.

• Give priority to pastoral care needs as they arise.

• Deeply respectful of the Anglican heritage, able to bring it to life for this time.

• Enable parish members to discover and grow in their ministry skills.

• Equip the congregation to live with discernment and confidence in a complex world.

• Ability to preach the Gospel in such a way that people, regardless of cultural and educational background, can understand.

• Diligent and timely attention to all required administrative tasks.

Enabling the Church’s ministry

• The ability to work with, to be able to work alongside.

• Facilitate and lead the parish in ministry vision and ministry development within the church.

• Actively embrace working across cultures, and across ecclesiastical cultures.

• Enable the church “to leave the building” (as per Day of Pentecost).

• Facilitate the growth of complex understandings around social justice issues to enable growth in the parish’s response to vulnerable people within the borders of this Parish.

• Enable positive interaction with people of other cultures within the church and other faiths in the area.

• Demonstrate good organising skills and managerial expertise when dealing with staff and parishioners. Teamwork is seen as a priority.

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