Who We Are
We believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is truly Good News for all people at every stage of life. Our church is both an inward-looking caring community, and an outreaching congregation seeking to help, encourage, and grow our community. We know that lives can be transformed, people can start again, and that hope and redemption is available to all.
We are a multi-generational church transitioning into modern and relevant worship and teaching.
Our Scenic Rim Uniting Church (SRUC) believes in a reformed, evangelical and historically orthodox view of the Christian faith. Our roots go back to Wesley, Knox and Browne, the founders of the three great movements (Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational) that came together in Australia to form the Uniting Church in 1977.
The Scenic Rim Uniting Church (SRUC) is a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia.
The UCA has a reformed and evangelical theological heritage, with John Wesley’s sermons and the Westminster Confession among its confessional documents. Our heart is to live and work together as a Christian Community and to that end, we do not say we are ‘united’ but rather “Uniting.’
We believe, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, known in three persons, and is defined by the dynamic and loving interaction between those three persons. God is Love. (1 John 4:8)
The Bible, including both the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God, and that God’s Word is His will. On the Cross Jesus made an all-sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the world, and that when we confess him as Lord and believe God raised him from the dead, we are saved from eternal judgement and receive the promise of eternal life (new life) in him. (Romans 10:9) At that moment God restores our relationship with Him and He sees us as righteous.
The church is the Priesthood of all believers, where every member of the church has gifts given by the Holy Spirit and for which there is a corresponding service. The church, empowered by the Holy Spirit, has an Acts 1:8 mandate and a Matthew 28 commission to be a witness of the love of God, and to go and make disciples of all nations and ethnicities.
Our Minister- Rev. Sione Mafoa'aeata Afu
My name is Reverend Sione Mafoa’aeata Afu, born in the Island Kingdom of Tonga 27th March 1961. Married to `Onaita Mo’unga Afu in October, 1982 in Brisbane. We have five children (one girl and four boys). We also adopted four others from Tonga (one girl and three boys). They all have their own families so we have 32 grandchildren (one passed away) and six great grandchildren.
I was ordained int the Ministry on the 17th December, 1994 in the Logan Central Uniting Church, Logan Central. I have served in- Weipa South UV (Aboriginal Community), Ashgrove West US, Bowen UC, Capalaba UC and then Chaplain with Blue Care at the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and then Southside (Springwood, Bethania and Carbrook).
There were also numerous places that I did some supply Ministry throughout Queensland, but most of my time was helping the Tongan people in Logan Central UC.
Now I am a .5 permanently with the Tongan Uniting Church Logan City and I’m so grateful.
I am so wonderfully grateful to God for allowing me to serve Him and His people in this ministry, also grateful to be with the Scenic Rim Uniting Church doing the next three months in this place.
My hope and prayer is that we will journey together in PEACE and LOVE during this time together so that we will glorify HIS MOST HOLY NAME.
To God Be The Glory.
God blessing to you all,
Rev. Sione M. Afu