Park Rail Anglican Church
A church in the community
Park Rail Anglican Church was planted to reach the 7500 people who have had no access to a church in Albion Park Rail.
Park Rail Anglican Church is a God-focused community. All are welcome!
Park Rail Anglican Church was planted to reach the 7500 people who didn't have access to a church in the area. The church is growing and most of the congregants have been converted from the community or surrounds.
“Park Rail is a low socioeconomic area and characteristically Anglican churches have not thrived in these conditions, but we’ve been very encouraged by the growth both numerically and spiritually. In a low socioeconomic area, the currency of the community is relationships. In general, families are fractured and blended and we see more dysfunction in people’s lives than in middle-class areas. Due to the currency of relationships and damage in people’s lives, we do not run group Bible studies but rather one-to-one discipling that increases honesty and accountability.” – Neil Scott
Lead Pastor of Park Rail Anglican - Neil
Neil is the lead Pastor of Park Rail Anglican. The church was planted out of Albion Park Anglican in 2013 with the purpose of reaching the distinct working class community of the neighbouring suburb.
As the SRE teacher across the region, I saw that not one church was deliberately seeking to reach the 7,000 people living there.
God has given me a heart for the working class and marginalised people of Albion Park Rail to equip them to disciple 121. With it being largely a fatherless community, it has been a privilege and pleasure to walk alongside many young people as school chaplain in encouraging them to look to Jesus. It has been a joy to minister also to the disability and Indigenous communities that have joined us.
Supporting youth ministry - Jaedon
Jaedon works with Park Rail Anglican Church, seeking to reach the young people of Park Rail for Jesus.
In particular, Jaedon’s focus is on reaching the youth in the community. He does this by teaching scripture at the Local High school and running youth group on a Friday night. Jaedon is also involved in other ministries to young people including the Youthworks Year 13 program.
He hopes to see youth grow up to be disciple makers in that community - people who love the gospel and want to see other people love the gospel.
Indigenous Community ministry - Louise
Louise has recently started working with the church to reach a local Indigenous Community. She heads into the community for a few hours a week to pray for and care for the local Indigenous people with the aim of starting an Indigenous Church. She is a very bright, funny and a faithful servant of the Lord Jesus.
Support Park Rail Anglican Church
“We would love people to partner with us both prayerfully and financially because we’ve seen a model of church flourish in a low socioeconomic area and we’re thinking that in the next three years we’d like to plant another church in the Illawarra. We would employ a tentmaker to come in and join the church for two years to see how it runs and then go and plant another church in a neighbouring suburb.” – Neil Scott