"Men and Women -
Equal in Christ,
Equal in Mission"

   The Presbyterian Fellowship is an association of  members, adherents­ and supporters of the Presbyterian Church of Australia­ who are trying to maintain the spirit of the worship, doctrine and practice of the Church as it has been since the various state churches were united in 1901.

The Fellowship recognizes the need for change in a changing world. It supports many of these changes and encourages exploration in new directions which will make the Church and its Faith more relevant to people in the new millennium. This includes the opening up of all areas of ministry and church leadership to women. However, at the same time, it believes that some of the traditions of the church are valuable and need to be maintained and preserved.

In recent years there has emerged a distressing spirit of legalism and intolerance, including anti-women feelings, all of which is threatening the unity and purpose of the church. The Presbyterian Fellowship was set up to be a counter-influence to these attitudes and to provide support for individuals and groups who were being threatened by them. We could be accurately described as an ecclesiastical “resistance movement“.

The Fellowship will continue to exist as long as its members feel that its aims cannot be fulfilled from within the structures of  its parent church.

Our Fellowship members are not obliged to adhere to a particular doctrinal position but rather tend to reflect the broad range of opinion traditionally valued within the Presbyterian Church. However they find common ground in opposing the narrowing and restricting of the principles of honest scholarship and liberty of opinion for which, up till recently, the Presbyterian Church has always been well known and respected.

This was held in Scots Church Sydney in May 2010 with Rev. Dr Iain Barclay from Torry St Fittick's Church in Aberdeen as the keynote speaker.

The Annual Report of the Executive to the membership was published in the June issue of the Presbyterian Review.

The Burning Bush window at the Manly Church.
The bush is a symbol of the Presbyterian Church and its motto ‘Nec Tamen Consumebatur’ means ‘However it was not consumed’

General Assembly's remit to approve a ban on women to be elders now dead in the water.

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The Presbyterian Fellowship
PO Box 518
Roseville 2069