Our History North Canberra Baptist Church was the second Baptist Church established in Canberra, and was a church plant from the Canberra Baptist Church at Kingston (est. 1929) in 1953. The first church service was held in the Turner Primary School on 3 December 1953. The current building was opened on Saturday 23 October 1954 by the Rev. Dr. F. Townley-Lord, President of the Baptist World Alliance and minister of Bloomsbury Central Church in London, England. ​ Ministers of North Canberra Baptist Church 1955 – Present Rev. E.F. Heather, 9 January 1955 – 26 January 1958 Rev. I.F. Kilvert, 8 February 1958 – 4 June 1961 Interim Ministry: (June 1961 – August 1962) – sermons delivered by various ministers and church members including Rev. George H. Morling. Rev. R.T. Farquhar, 19 August 1962 – January 1967 Rev. John R. Strugnell, 30 July 1967 – 25 November 1970 Rev. David A. Tinsley, 6 February 1971 – January 1975 Rev. R.D. Ellem – Interim Pastorate (1975) Rev. Laurie Fischer, 31 August 1975 – January 1982 Rev. Bob Boyce, 6 January 1983 – September 1984 Interim Ministry: (1985) Deaconess Jennifer Coleman Rev. Ian W. Minto, 22 Dec 1985 – June 2002 Interim Ministry: July 2002 – January 2003 Rev. Murray Neill, 19 January 2003 – 2007 Rev. Noel Coleman – Interim Ministry (2007-2008) Rev. John Bracht, 6 July 2008 – 15 December 2013 Rev. Dr. David Griffin, 2 February 2014 - 27 January 2019 Rev. Peter Jones - Interim Ministry - 31 March 2019 - 23 February 2020 Ps Rob Horne - 3 August 2020 to Present ​ ​

Contact us Get in touch First Name Last Name Email Phone Message Submit Church: 17 Condamine Street, Turner ACT 2612 ​ Email: office@ncbc.org.au ​ Pastor: rob.horne@ncbc.org.au ​ Post: PO Box 6068, O’Connor ACT 2602

Acerca de SUPA Club SUPA Club (Scripture Union Primary Age) is an after-school bible program that runs in our hall by the Scripture Union organisation. SUPA Club meets on Tuesdays at 3-5:30, and a walking school bus collects registered students from Turner School at 3 to bring them safely over. ​ All Scripture Union programs comply with ChildSafe Standards. Please follow this link for more information, or contact us!

Sermon Recordings You can listen to our past sermons by clicking below. You can also listen to the songs we sing on our Spotify playlist

Acerca de Stump At NCBC, we have a student bible study group called Stump (short for Student Meeting Place), which comprises of university students and other young adults in our congregation. Stump meets weekly on a Tuesday at 6:30pm where we share dinner and work through the passage/s in our current sermon series. Contact us if you'd like to be connected into Stump or any of our other growth groups! ​ Other Growth Groups: Growth Groups Spanish bible group ​ Please contact us for more information! ​

Our Pastor Rob is from Canberra and Arabelle is from the Philippines. They met while studying at ANU, got married when they graduated and now have five kids and a dog called Layla. Rob has been the pastor of NCBC for the past 3 years and spent ten years before that as missionaries working in international churches in Austria and Germany. Rob also served in university student ministry. They love hanging out with people from all different backgrounds and cultures and have quite a multicultural menu at home. They are excited to be serving with God’s people at NCBC and pray the church might be an authentic Christian community where the love of Jesus is heard, felt and seen.

Safe Churches Material 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 . ​ These policies continue to be developed and reviewed by our church, and will be regularly updated on the website. ​ Each file is linked as a downloadable .pdf file. ​ 1. NCBC Church Constitution (668 KB) and Motions in Effect as amended in March 2017 2. Safe Churches Policy (456 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 3. Procedure for Staff and Volunteers (150 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 4. Procedure for Conflict Resolution (120 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 5. Procedure for handling complaints against Staff and Volunteers (137 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 6. Procedure for responding to Child Protection concerns (149 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 7. NCBC Code of Conduct (119 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 8. Safe Church concerns form (112 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 9. Safe Church Team role description (106 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 10. WHS Team role description (130 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 11. Guidelines for activities with children and young people (69 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 12. An Australian Baptist response to Persons of Concern (455 KB) - Current as at 16 April 2020 ​ 13. NCBC Privacy Policy (206 KB)- Current as at 16 June 2020 ​ 14. Useful information for WWVP application/ renewal (83 KB) - Current as at 13 March 2024

Join us for our annual carols on the lawn! Community event on Saturday 9th December at 5pm! 17 Condamine St, Turner On the day we will have: Free BBQ Live sing-along carols Kids entertainment Christmas message Some seating provided, BYO picnic rug To know Christ, and make him known To know Christ, and make him known To know Christ, and make him known Other Christmas Season Events? See below 10 & 17 December: Sunday Advent services at 10am and 5pm 24 December: Sunday Advent service at 10am, followed by free community lunch, and Twilight Song Service 8:30pm-9:30pm 25 December: Christmas Day service 10am-11:30am

Flourish Flourish We have a women's bible study group that meets at 11am-2pm on the 3rd Saturday of every month in one of our ladies' homes ​ Please contact us for more information about joining NCBC for Equip, or any other questions you might have! ​

New Here? We'd love for you to join us on Sunday morning at 10:00am. ​ There's plenty of free parking available here at the church, or we are a short stroll from the Canberra Light Rail (alight at the Ipima Street stop and walk along Condamine Street. The church is about 400 metres down on your left). Check the Transport Canberra website for timetables. ​ Our church service usually runs for about 1-1.5 hours, where we worship God together through music, prayer, bible readings and hearing a message from God's word. ​ During the service, we usually collect an offering. This is an opportunity for our congregation to contribute financially to the church, our ministries and ongoing costs. As a guest, feel free to allow the collection bag to pass you by, however you are welcome to contribute if you wish. ​ On the first Sunday of the month, we share the Communion during the service, and host a bring-and-share lunch after the service, to which all are welcome. ​ We have a Sunday School ministry for primary school aged children, and a creche for pre-primary children, which run during the service. ​ We do not have a dress code here at North Canberra Baptist - just wear what you are comfortable in! ​ After church we are we would love to get to know you over a cup of tea or coffee, so please stick around for a chat! ​

Acerca de Crossroads English Crossroads English is an English language group, run by Crossroads (another local church) in our building on a Wednesday evening. ​ ​ Follow this link to see their information page, or contact us for more details!

Elvanto Log-in Follow the link above to access the elvanto page. If you are having trouble with Elvanto log-in, please email office@ncbc.org.au Thank you.