The Uniting Church - Merriwa

The members of presbytery include ordained Ministers, Pastors and other lay people, representing 35 Congregations within The Hunter Presbytery. Some of these have multiple worship centres, which means there are 53 locations across the presbytery where the Uniting Church meets to worship and engage in ministry and God’s mission.

The role of the presbytery is to “exercise oversight over congregations within its bounds, encouraging them to strengthen one another’s faith, to bear one another’s burdens, and exhorting them to fulfil their high calling in Christ Jesus. The Presbyery will also promote those wider aspects of the work of the Church committed to it by the Synod and Assembly.” This includes individual and corporate actions for positive change in society – a focus of the Uniting Church in Australia.