Church Policies
North Canberra Baptist Church is committed to protecting the safety of all people within our programs, ministries and events. Regardless of age, gender, race, culture, disability, family or social background, everyone has equal rights to this protection. All people, including children, have the right to be respected, valued and feel emotionally, physically and spiritually safe at all times.
Please see the links below to our Safe Churches policies. We have developed these to uphold our commitment and adhere to legislative requirements as a member of the Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT.
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These policies continue to be developed and reviewed by our church, and will be regularly updated on the website.
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Each file is linked as a downloadable .pdf file.
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1. NCBC Church Constitution (668 KB) and Motions in Effect as amended in March 2017
2. Safe Churches Policy (143 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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3. Procedure for Staff and Volunteers (206 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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4. Procedure for Conflict Resolution (117 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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5. Procedure for handling complaints against Staff & Volunteers (219 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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6. Procedure for responding to Child Protection concerns (618 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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7. NCBC Code of Conduct (103 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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8. Safe Church concerns form (96 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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9. Safe Church Team role description (80 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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10. WHS Team role description (63 KB) - adopted in 2024 & remains in effect
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11. Guidelines for Activities with Children and Young People (69 KB) - adopted in 2025 & remains in effect
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12. An Australian Baptist response to Persons of Concern (455 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020
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13. NCBC Privacy Policy (206 KB) - Current as at 16 June 2020
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14. Useful information for WWVP application/ renewal (83 KB) - Current as at 13 March 2024
Position Statements
North Canberra Baptist Church is a member of the Baptist Churches of NSW and ACT. As an association, we hold the following position statements.
1. Marriage
Marriage is a covenant relationship ordained by God as a lifelong faithful union of one man and one woman. Sexual intimacy outside such a marriage relationship is incompatible with God’s intention for us as his people.
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2. Local Church Autonomy and Healthy Association
Each local Baptist church is autonomous and subject to no external authority to determine its doctrine, worship, objects, and values as it has understood the scriptures to determine these matters. Nevertheless, Baptist churches usually choose to associate together to mutually discern the mind of Christ so that in a partnership of support and care based on shared convictions, objects and values, together we might more effectively engage in mission and represent Christ to the world in which we live and serve.
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Congregational Governance
Each local Baptist church is made up of all those who by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ have been born again and publicly acknowledged their allegiance to Jesus as Lord. Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the local church has received Christ’s authority to govern its worship, fellowship and service in accordance with scriptural principles, the whole church being finally responsible for its governance. Nevertheless, within each local church Christ has provided servant leaders, gifted through the Holy Spirit to build up the local church to maturity in Christ and engage in the ongoing mission of Christ. The local church identifies and appoints these servant leaders to positions of honour and responsibility, with delegated authority to act for the local church within parameters defined by the congregation.