THE PASTORS
Welcome to our Family Life Church Family! We are so thankful for the opportunity to get to know you. Here at Family Life we are passionate about creating a space where each and everyone of us can be received, restored and revealed for God’s glory. A place where we can be our authentic selves. A place where our brokenness is embraced by those around us as they journey with us to healing and wholeness.
We love Engaging with God, Engaging with His Church and Engaging with his people.
Melanie and I value relationship with God and people above all else and we love the opportunity to do life together, with Him and with one another. We believe there is always more of God to discover, more of Him to encounter and a deeper and stronger relationship to experience with Him.
Together with the leadership and family of Family Life Church, we are having a great time journeying together through the ebbs and flows of life…the ups and downs…and we invite you to join us in that journey as Father God draws us nearer to Him and shapes us into His image with ever increasing Glory!
Church History
Mt Clear Church of Christ (t/a Family Life Church) was planted in the year 1863 in Mt Clear Ballarat…and what a journey we have been on. People, Locations, Ministers, Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals…just to name a few.
In 1980 the church officially changed its name to Mt Clear Community Church: A Church of Christ, trying to capture its emphasis and showcase the culture that had been built on Worship, Togetherness and Community Outreach.
Today not much has changed. Mt Clear Church continues to have an emphasis on Worship, Togetherness (through our Friendship Groups) and many and varied Outreaches…both local and international. Adding to that rich heritage and DNA is a freedom to experience and move in the MORE of God. To flow in the spirit and the gifts of the spirit. To seek, capture and embrace all that God has for us.
In 2019 we began a journey to capture WHO We Are…our DNA, our Prophetic Destiny. Then in 2021 we officially became Family Life Church…and we must say that Family is truly embedded at the core of our DNA. We are a church where ALL people find Refuge. A house that God invades and restores His children to wholeness, bringing them back home – arms extended.
It’s His House, Our Home and we are One Family.
If you are looking to find a Church family where you can build Friendships, where you can grow in your Relationship with people and with God, where you can get Inspired and get Involved, where you can be Educated and Embraced, where you can be Nurtured, Discipled and built in His most Holy Strength….a place to rest in Him, then Family Life Church is a place you should visit…and a place that you can call Home!