Welcome to the Centenary Uniting Church website.

We hope you find it helpful.
Please use the menu on the left hand side to navigate around the site.

For useful links  - click here

Weekly Worship Services
(see link to worship on menu bar for more information)

9am traditional worship with hymns, bible readings and a sermon followed by morning tea (Holy Communion is celebrated on each 1st Sunday of the month)

 At 10:30am, a contemporary service using guitars, keyboards and drums for music.

1pm Tongan Service

2:30pm Chinese Service - service in Mandarin

(see 'worship' page for more information on our worship services)

Mothers' Day Service , 9 May, 2010, Special Service at 9am only

You are most welcomed to attend any of our worship services.

NEWS

Lap Quilts- "THANKYOU" to all who gave their time to knitting the squares. One square being joined with many others has made the lives the quilts have gone to a little warmer and encouraging to keep going.

13 lap quilts were very kindly knitted and sew together by the playgroup ladies. Centenary craft group and the congregation help with time and practical help. A Morning Tea was held on the 23rd June at Centenary where the quilts were received by a support worker from the "Thelma Brown Cottage-Parramatta mission".

Christmas Hampers  Continuing our relationship with the Thelma brown Cottage (refuge for women and children of domestic violence, we are compiling hampers to give practical and compassionate help as most of these families leave their homes with nothing.

Please read the playgroup link for further information or Linda at the Church Office 9683 5023 or 0407 123 403.

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Parenting Group
for parents with children 0-6 months.  The group covers topics on feeding, sleeping, safety in the home, speech development and more.
Bookings through Parramatta Community Health Service 9843 3218

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Parenting Courses
offered throughout the year at Centenary Uniting Church, run by Uniting Care Burnside, looking at parenting skills, coping with young children. Some childcare available. Bookings  essential on 9843 6222

Courses include:

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Minister at Centenary Uniting, Parramatta -

My name is Barnabas (Bong Gun) KIM. I am the minister at Centenary Uniting Church in North Parramatta.
I was born in Korea in 1960, married Esther in 1983 and have two boys, Samuel 23, Moses 17.

I am an Asian middle-aged married male migrant minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. Growing up in Korea I experienced the cultures of Confucianism, Buddhism, Shamanism, and Christianity, all which have impacted on who I am.

I came to Australia in 1999 and have been living in Sydney for seven and half years, which means I am a Korean-Australian in this multi-cultural and multi-religious society. My identity as a Korean-Australian affects how I see things. It becomes a struggle to form a personal  identity but it is also a strength as it helps me relate to others from different cultural backgrounds and experiences.  Living in multicultural and multi-faith Australia, so different to Korea,  certainly has affected how I understand life’s meaning.

As a human being and a minister, I am always contemplating the questions: “Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Who is God? What is the nature of the Church? What is the true meaning of religion?” And I have not found the exact answer, I have just begun to understand a little.

If you are interested in exploring these questions with me and others, you are welcome, whoever you are, to come along on a Sunday morning - worship services are  at 9am and 10:30am or give me a ring on 9683 5023 

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Community and Family Worker at Centenary Uniting, Parramatta -

My name is Linda Ikaunieks . I am the 'Community and Family Worker' at Centenary Uniting Church in North Parramatta.
I am married to Karl (2004) and have two sons, Phillip 25 and Scott 22, to a previous marriage. I am Australian, although I was born in South Africa, and migrated here with my family in 1961.

Play centre:

Each Monday and Wednesday mornings 9:30 am- 11:30am of the school term. For more information please click onto the 'Playgroup' link found on the side menu  
 

English Conversation Classes:

There are normally two classes per week:- Tuesday and Thursdays 10am to 12noon. Check out the English Classes link on the side menu.

Send mail to community@centenary.unitingchurch.org.au with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 03 Aug 2010