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Former Presbytery of Maroondah

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In September 2006, the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania decided that, from the 1st of January 2008, there would be a reduction from 14 to 8 presbyteries in Victoria. From that date Maroondah Presbytery  will be separated north and south, those sections becoming parts of the Port Phillip East and Melbourne East Presbyteries. Melbourne East Presbytery has been renamed the Presbytery of Yarra Yarra.

The web site for the Yarra-Yarra Prebytery is http://victas.uca.org.au/main.php?id=223692

I have yet to be advised of a new site for Port Phillip East Web site.

For the time being I will leave some historical information on this site
In the mean time The Maroondah Presbytery Community Services Committee wishes to place on record some of their history .
  1. Maroondah Presbytery Community Services Committee Nine Years of Learning
    This paper is an endeavour by the Maroondah Community Services Committee (CSC) to analyse what it has (and hasn’t) achieved since the Committee was constituted in March 1998 and to offer this experience to the new Presbyteries that will come into existence at the start of 2008. (Download .pdf 74kb)
  2. An Introduction to Covenanting  - Covenanting between the Uniting Church Outreach Ministries of Harrison Community Services, Connections, an agency of UnitingCare, UnitingCare Community Options, Wesley Mission Melbourne. Prahran Mission and Strathdon Community has come about through the recognition that there is a need for co-operation and a formalising of a commitment to one another as Uniting Church Outreach Ministries.  This Outreach Ministries covenant is part of the Covenanting Program developed by these Outreach Ministries. The Covenanting program aims to develop covenants between individual congregations with an outreach ministry(s) whom they have developed a joint sense of mission. (Download .pdf 316kb)
  3. Pastoral Care of Agencies in the Maroondah Presbytery - a policy document (Download .pdf 80kb)
  4. Together in Service - A Forum for Clergy, Congregations and UC Agencies  exploring how they may continue to support each other in Local Mission Sunday 9TH September, 2007 Speakers:- (Download .pdf 1582kb)
The Community Services Committee members anticipate they will form the nucleus of a Community Services Network covering a similar, although expanded area.

Back to the remains of the nearly obsolete Presbytery Web Site:-

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What is the role of a Presbytery?
"The Presbytery shall have responsibility for such pastoral and administrative oversight as is necessary to the life and mission of the Church within the bounds and to stimulate and encourage the Congregations within the bounds, in their strengthening and assistance of one another, and in their participation in the wider aspects of the Church . and in the whole range of Christian witness and service." Back to the Index
Where was the Presbytery of Maroondah?
The Presbytery of Maroondah encompasses the area east of Melbourne stretching from Chadstone, Mt Waverley, Burwood East, Blackburn and Blackburn North on its western boundary, to the Roweville, The Dandenong Ranges and Healesville on the eastern side. Link to a Map of the Presbytery Back to the Index

Uniting Church Schools:-Wesley College Glen Waverley Campus and Billanook College Moorolbark are schools of the Uniting Church within the area. (Kingswood College is just over the border of the Presbytery in Box Hill South). Back to the Index

[This page was last updated Wed 28 May 2008. Please provide feedback to feedback@maroondahpresbytery.unitingchurch.org.au]