About
Parkside is one of the fastest growing churches in South-West Sydney. The church family is diverse; people from 45 different cultural and ethnic backgrounds have made it their home. The cornerstone of Parkside is its vision to be a rainbow of God’s people bringing His love and reconciliation to multicultural Australia. The Vision is to become a Church for all Australians regardless of their ethnic origin or background.
Mathew Kuruvilla, Senior Pastor of Parkside has a vision to see “people from every culture in our community come to know the Lord and worship together as one big family of God’s people”. He sees this as being obedient to God’s Word to fulfil the great commission of making disciples of all nations.
History
The initial ministry at Parkside was begun in 1982 as an initiative of the Baptist Union of NSW. Pioneer Pastor, Rev. Noel Coleman was to consolidate and build upon existing Christian ministries known as Bossley Park Sunday School and the Australian Migrant Mission. The Parkside fellowship so formed was formally constituted as the Parkside Baptist Church on June 23, 1985, with a foundation membership of just 29 people. A small wooden building located near the corner of Edensor Road and Boomerang road, Edensor Park was used for services until destroyed by fire in July, 1988.
Later that year, a block of land was obtained on Smithfield road, Edensor Park. A demountable building was erected on that land in August, 1988. Rev. Mathew Kuruvilla commenced his ministry at Parkside in January 1989. Work commenced on a new brick church building which was completed in June 1990. Under Pastor Mathew’s leadership the church grew numerically and in a multicultural facet. Today the church consists of people from over 45 different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
The Church had been experiencing tremendous growth over the past few years and the existing facilities were soon becoming inadequate to cater for this growth. In 2000 the Church adopted the vision of “Building People for Eternity” with the plan to expand the existing facilities to cater for both the current and future growth. Work commenced on brand new facilities in April 2003. These include an 800 seat auditorium, a function hall, children’s ministry areas, Administration, a café and a bookshop. The new facilities were officially opened in November 2003 by the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP - Attorney General of Australia.
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