7th Jan 2026 New Year, Renewed Rhythms from Travis It is a new year, HAPPY NEW YEAR to each of you! It is also the time where many rethink their rhythms and habits that they desire to build into their life in the coming year. Looking back on my own life, I know that some Januarys have involved bold declarations of gloriously ambitious "new year's resolutions"... that then turn out to be embarrassingly short-lived. Oops! In other years though, I can look back on deliberate shi

31st Dec 2025 2025: A Year of Pursuing Jesus Together As 2025 makes way for 2026, we want to give an enormous PRAISE GOD and share a heartfelt THANK YOU for an incredible year together!! At the beginning of 2025, we set the theme of 'Pursue' over the year as a church from Philippians 3:12-14. Our heart and hope was to see a year of pursuing Jesus - both individually and collectively - and taking hold of all that he has for us. It flowed from the faith-fuelled conviction t

22nd Dec 2025 Merry Christmas from our pastoral team From all of our team we wish you each a very Merry and Meaningful Christmas Celebration! Whatever the coming days hold for you, we pray that Jesus will fill your vision and heart. Allow the scandal of God becoming flesh to lead you in wonderous amazement, as you are moved afresh by the depths of God's love for you and for our world. Teen Missions Update Continue to pray for our amazing teens (Leo, Amity, Mercy & Sarah) who

17th Dec 2025 Prayer for Bondi from Johnny "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5 On Sunday night, Jewish communities around Australia and across the world gathered to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. Yet in Bondi, the celebration was turned to tragedy as two gunmen opened fire of civilians in an act of terror and hatred. I know we are all reeling as we seek to come to terms with what has happened. Many of us have seen footage

10th Dec 2025 Advent: A Season for Peace from Johnny I think our world is desperate for peace at the moment - so many people seem to be living with a background level of fear, a sense of dread gnawing away at the back of their minds. Perhaps you feel this too - fear of war, fear of natural disaster, fear of economic collapse, fear of evil people with too much power... God's people have lived in fearful times before. Throughout the bible there are countless examples of people

3rd Dec 2025 Advent: A Season of Hope from Travis This week I found myself hoping for the best. I had chosen to take a longer, in-land, less direct but hopefully more beautiful route up to my Arrow Leadership Residential in QLD. It would be a single lane road that had experienced flood damage earlier in the year with questionable phone reception. As I sat in my mid-way stop before tackling this alternate route, I admit I was hoping for the best - "I hope the traffic is light.

26th Nov 2025 Observing Advent from Travis In our household the Christmas tree is now set up and shining brightly each night, Christmas fruit mince tarts are being enjoyed, the Names of Jesus Advent Calendar is up and wrapped presents are already appearing beneath the tree. Of course, you don't need to visit our home to know what we all know... Christmas is coming! In the liturgical calendar, this Sunday marks the official beginning of the Season of Advent. For Christians acr

19th Nov 2025 Serve With Us! from Johnny Wasn’t it wonderful celebrating and thanking God last Sunday morning. We want to take a moment to reiterate our thanks for the army of volunteers that serve with us every week, and to relive the fun of our Thanksgiving service on Sunday. There are over 150 who serve on a regular roster, plus all the people who sign up to help with special events, and those who lend a hand in more informal ways. Thank you all!! Travis shared an exciting

12th Nov 2025 So incredibly grateful for us from Travis (+NCLS!) Recently I sat down to read through our returned NCLS report (remember that big "National Church Life Survey" form you filled in back in September? That's the one, thanks for filling that in!) . I had been eagerly awaiting it's return, ready to dive into the report as it is such a helpful snapshot of our church and measure of our health. Plus, it helps give shape to our focus and priorities for the coming year.

5th Oct 2025 Christmas Season at NVBC Dates for your diary! The world may say that we are heading towards the "silly season", yet for us at NVBC we believe that we are approaching a season of spiritual significance! Across our Christmas Season we are facilitating opportunities to be deeply impacted by the love of God, who came and dwelt among us. And that good news of great joy for all the world!! There will be moments to remember, laugh, mourn, celebrate and invite our frie

29th Oct 2025 Maintaining 'Mountain Top' Momentum from Travis I love mountain top experiences! Who doesn't?! I love those moments where we feel God speak to us so clearly, where we sense His presence in a powerful way, and where we feel our hearts be stirred to make real change in our life. Whether a conference, retreat, worship night or some special occasion, these mountain top experiences can bring moments of great clarity, healing and renewed focus on the things of God in

22nd Oct 2025 What a Weekend! Wow! What an incredible weekend we had at The Gathering Conference. What a privilege to spend a whole weekend together as a church, hearing incredible talks and attending life-equipping workshops, eating together and fellowshipping together, having a lot of fun and also having some deep and powerful encounters with God. Thank you to everyone who helped made it happen: The Valley Youth leaders and the youth band, for hosting us all on Friday night

15th Oct 2025 CRU Coast: What a Joyful Week! from Zach This week NVBC hosted CRU Coast, a kids day camp. This saw 21 energised kids descend into a week of action packed activities and entertaining bible stories. The campers spent an afternoon decorating and flying kites, a morning of water rotations including the famous Splash Tunnel, a whole day exploring activities at the Lake mac campsite and so much more! In Christian Discovery we explored some of Paul's missionary journe

8th Oct 2025 The Gathering Conference Program It is only 9 days to go until The Gathering Conference weekend begins with an epic Friday...

1st Oct 2025 A Call to Gather from Travis There is something so incredibly significant and powerful when we set time aside as a church to...

24th Sept 2025 Follow up: Set Your Pace On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from...

17th Sept 2025 A Night of Unity On Sunday night NVBC had the privilege to host a Coast Baptists Combined Worship and Prayer night. And...

10th Sept 2025 The Gathering Conference... is now LIVE! We are so excited to launch the program details and open rego for The Gathering...

3rd Sept 2025 A Father's Love from Johnny It’s Fathers Day this Sunday – happy Fathers Day everyone! In our recent Mark series in our PM...

27th Aug 2025 The Church is ALIVE in... from Travis This week a gem of a YouTube short grabbed my attention with a subtitle that read...