About Us

Port Phillip West Presbytery

The Presbytery's boundaries stretch from Lorne in the south-west to Queenscliff in the south-east and include all the Bellarine Peninsula and Geelong.  The western edge of the Presbytery includes Winchelsea, Lara, LIttle River, Bacchus Marsh and Pentland Hills, and Sunbury.  In the north, the Presbytery includes Kyneton, Mia Mia, Woodend, Tylden, Romsey and Lancefield, Wallan, and then on the eastern boundary it includes congregations along the Hume Highway south of Wallan, through Craigieburn, to Coburg, and finally Brunswick.  Northcote Chalice Community of Faith, Darebin North West and Croxton to the east of Sydney Road are also in the Presbytery.  All of Melbourne's western and north western suburbs are within the Presbytery's boundaries.

It's a big Presbytery!

Forthcoming Presbytery meetings: The next meeting of the Presbytery-in-Council will be on Saturday, 25th February 2012, from 10 am to 3 pm, at Western Heights Uniting Church, 31 Douglass St, Herne Hill.

The Presbytery Standing Committee meets at Bacchus Marsh Uniting Church on the 1st Tuesday of the month, commencing at 4 pm.

Correspondence to Presbytery and its committees (Standing, PRC, Multicultural Ministries, Administration, Property & Finance, and Mission, Strategy & Education) should be addressed in the first instance to the Acting Secretary of Presbytery, the Rev. Robert Renton, and mailed to 16 Baden Drive, Hoppers Crossing 3029 or emailed to robert.renton@bigpond.com.

The Presbytery Pastoral Relations Committee meets at Bacchus Marsh Uniting Church on the 4th Tuesday of each month, commencing at 5 pm.

The Administration, Property and Finance Committee and Misson, Strategy and Education Committee meet at Bacchus Marsh Uniting Church on the 4th Tuesday, commencing at 5 pm.

The meeting of the Multicultural Ministries Committee are held at required.

Office-bearers until December 31 2012 are:

Presbytery Chairperson: Ms Jenny Hayes

Deputy Presbytery Chairperson: Dr Neil Tweddle

Presbytery Secretary: To be advised

Presbytery Treasurer: Mr Ian Pooley

Chairperson, Pastoral Relations Committee: Mrs Amanda Mullen

Chairperson, Administration, Property & Finance Committee: Rev. Deacon Graham Morris

Chairperson, Mission, Strategy & Education Committee: Mrs Fay Charles

Chairperson, Multicultural Ministries Committee: Rev. Lavingi Tupou

Lay Representative, Placements Committee: Mrs Amanda Mullen

Presbytery Ministers -

    Rev. Ann Key (Pastoral Care)

    Rev. Robert Renton (Administration).

ALL CORRESPONDENCE: Rev. Robert Renton, 16 Baden Drive, Hoppers Crossing 3029

A Presbytery-appointed committee  manages the Burnside Camp, which is leased to the Baptist Union of Victoria.  The campsite is contactable through Camp Wilkin at Anglesea.

Board of Mission and Resourcing representatives are the Rev. James Douglas and the Rev. Robert Renton.  The Mission Support Fund Network, which is a sub-committee of BOMAR, is attended by the Presbytery Minister Administration.