Our Stories

Today 8 March is International Women’s Day and we are celebrating all the amazing women across the Baptist Union of Victoria. Here we’re celebrating the women at the BUV Support Hub! What amazing women do you have in your everyday spaces – in your churches, in your community, or in your life? Let us know what wonderful woman you want to celebrate today!

On Thursday 16 February 2023, we welcomed Guest Speaker, Dr Christa McKirland, PhD, ThM, MA, BA (Hons), and Lecturer in Systematic Theology from Carey Baptist Theological College in New Zealand to discuss Gender Roles and Sexuality in the Church. Over 170 people representing 69 churches attended both in person and online.

It’s a confronting reality when a pastor is forced to leave a ministry due […]

Graeme Semple (the BUV support hub’s Regional Pastor – Western) shares what a great […]

October 2022 Gathering – it’s a Wrap! A truly great and blessed day at Nourish and at Members’ Dinner!

October 2022 Gathering – it’s a Wrap! A truly great and blessed day at Nourish and at Members’ Dinner!

Celebrating 10 years with Friends of Dismas, a church whose mission is to assist motivated adults on parole, ex-prisoners and their family and friends, to grow in their Christian faith, to transition successfully into society, and to live a crime-free life.

Over the past 5 years, the BUV Support Hub has had the privilege of working with the leaders and the congregation of Epsom Community Church in North-East Bendigo as they embarked on finding God’s vision for their church and community. Today, they are starting to see the fruit of all their work! 

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 two of two.

Nay Gay Toe Aye, a member of Cloverdale Karen Baptist Church, shares hear a bit of her story with Charlene Delos Santos, our Multicultural 2^nd Gen Coordinator.