When: 18 January 2026, 10:30am
Where: 2 George Street, Avalon Beach, NSW
We are holding our Aboriginal Sunday Service a week earlier than the traditional Aboriginal Sunday services in January 2026, due to our “once per fortnightly meeting service schedule”. The traditional Aboriginal Sunday is observed the Sunday before Australia Day. A growing number of people refer to 28 January in Australia as Invasion Day.
Brooke Prentis will be leading this service (2026) and may bring some special guests with her.
More information to come! Uncle Neill Evers (see below) is going to Welcome us to Country again in 2026.
Pics and Videos from 2025:
Uncle Neil, Chairperson of the Aboriginal Support Group Manly Warringah Pittwater is a direct descendant of Bungaree, who was a local indigenous leader at the time of European settlement and acted as a mediator between the early white settlers and indigenous people.
#ChangeTheHeart 2025 – A Prayer for Peace
Brooke Prentis, GAICD, CA, BCom, BA, Grad Cert Theology, a Wakka Wakka woman, is a prominent Aboriginal Christian leader and one of Australia’s few Indigenous Chartered Accountants.
https://watchgood.com/changetheheart-2025-a-prayer-for-peace/
Link to music video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wEkLvgGTk1sA2A6rqW3QESv1Wy8ZVG9w/view?usp=drive_link
Link to sermon video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBsvfla8AMfRS9rXlzpJko43XT43tYnV/view?usp=drive_link
Common Grace Media Resources Used in the Service:
About our 2025 Aboriginal Sunday graphic
Our Aboriginal Sunday graphic for 2025 features the Southern Cross in the night’s sky. The Southern Cross constellation has been a faithful guide whenever someone is navigating at night on land or sea, when people need to know which way to follow, or have been lost.
“In a spiritual sense, the wounds of Christ are reflected in the sky above Australia and is a reminder for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that Jesus knows our pain, and yet through His pain has given us hope and possibility for the future. We look to Jesus to give us guidance on the way we should go forward.” Safina Stewart, Common Grace Relationship and Storytelling Coordinator
In the darkness of the night, may we look up to the heavens where our wounded Saviour has left His markings as a reminder of His great love and faithfulness. May we find our next steps in confidence and hope with Him. May we hear His voice calling us up and out of despair and into the living hope of His kingdom and good way.
Safina Stewart’s artwork of the outline of Australia, depicts songlines across these lands. Songlines are remarkable connections and cultural routes that have lasted for thousands of years, between Aboriginal communities across the vast and diverse continent of Australia.They are ancient pathways following the tracks of the ancestors, sung and danced in language to help custodians follow lore, and strengthen relationship between country, culture and cosmology. Many songlines and cultural practices have since been disrupted through acts of genocide and dispossession. This year, Safina’s artwork for Aboriginal Sunday reflects the reclaiming of pride, song and culture, celebrating the hopeful pathways and connections between communities. The heart and songlines represent a way that is opening up to finding home and hope for healing, and flourishing connections as we journey together.
Small Piece of local History:
More: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/aboriginal_settlement_narrabeen_lagoon
Avalon Baptist Peace Church 