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Ministry Resource Centre
22 Plantation Street MENORA WA 6050

Mail to
PO Box 458 DIANELLA WA 6059

Phone: +61 8 9471 8500

Email: admin@cocwa.com.au

Office Hours: Tues, Weds, Thurs 9am-3pm

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BETTER TOGETHER.

Churches of Christ in Western Australia is a movement of 70 faith communities and interdependent care and community services across the state.

We make it easier for churches to be effective. From written resources to consistent prayer, we offer practical support and real community, making a way for every church to move with the mission of Christ.

We support these diverse and autonomous communities and work to see them thrive.

PURPOSE

As an association, we exist to further the work of church and faith communities. We provide support to our members over a wide range of matters relating to church structure, management, training and policy issues.

STRUCTURE

Member churches appoint delegates as their representatives within the Association (Council). The Executive Minister oversees the activities of the organisation.

FUNDING

The association is funded through member contributions and through the support of member partners.

NATIONAL

COCWA is a member Conference of Churches of Christ in Australia and partners with them to advance the movement. While synergies and partnerships are explored and COCWA relates at a national level, we exist and function as totally separate and autonomous organisations.

Churches of Christ was born out of a 19th century international movement often referred to as the Restoration Movement.

The heart of this movement was to abandon denominationalism and follow the New Testament without creeds and confessions of faith. We rally around this simple plea:

In essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things love.

The Australian pioneers of Churches of Christ applied this founding identity to an Australian context, forming a lay movement to make Christ-centred communities centred in a local context. In 1890, a man named T. H. Bates arrived in Perth, gathering a group of 11 disciples, laying the foundations for us today.

Constant shifts in society makes models of disciple-making dynamic and varied, and we find ourselves missionaries in our own backyards. Together we pursue the mission to share the good news of Jesus in ways that make sense for West Australian people.

Churches of Christ are characterised by their diversity of expression in church life. The following characteristics tend to be expressed in the culture, values and practices in Churches of Christ Churches: