What We’re About

Coastal Hope Community Church is founded on the great news that God has done everything necessary, through Jesus, to bring us into relationship with him. And that’s news that gives us real hope! Real hope for a great future. Real hope for peace and contentment. Real hope for finding our God-intended purpose.

What makes us a church is that we’re a new kind of family, brought together by that common hope. In Jesus, God entered our world to live a life like ours, to die a death in our place, and to rise again from the dead giving us the hope of new life in him.

Believing in Jesus is so much more than just a special interest or hobby. It’s about every part of life. It’s about God transforming us from within, renewing us by his power, so that renewal starts overflowing into all that we do and say.

Our Vision

At Coastal Hope Community Church, it’s our goal to be a community of people who are joyfully following Jesus and sharing his love. We seek to do this through:

Our Mission

WIN people to a living faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

BUILD a committed, loving community of believers for Christ.

SEND well-equipped followers of Christ to serve him with the gospel.

Our History

Coastal Hope Community Church traces its origins back to the 1950s, with our congregation settling at our present location in the early 1960s. Since those formative years, we have grown together in faith, united in worship and fellowship, continually grateful for the grace we receive through Jesus Christ.

Today, we bear the name Coastal Hope Community Church to better embody the message of hope found in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

As Australian society has become increasingly mobile, our church family has evolved as well. We now gather from many different parts of western Sydney and represent a variety of backgrounds and life experiences.

Our Connections

Coastal Hope Community Church is part of the Christian Churches of Australia, a movement founded in the early 1950s. In its formative years, approximately 50 congregations were established nationwide. More recently, as the commitment to church planting has been renewed, a wave of new churches has begun.

Our core beliefs are shared with Christians worldwide and throughout history. As Christian Reformed believers, we especially trace our spiritual heritage to the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s and 1600s, and ultimately back to the early church described in the Bible. The Reformation was a call for all people to rediscover and return to the teachings of Scripture.

What We Believe

At Coastal Hope Community Church, our faith is rooted in the incredible message of Jesus—God’s only Son—who is the remedy for the brokenness and longing found in our world. Through Him, we discover our true, God-given purpose: to live for His glory.

Our core beliefs align closely with the foundational biblical truths that were brought to light during the Protestant Reformation, a movement that called people back to the teachings of Scripture. These essential truths can be summarized as follows:

Scripture alone

Scripture alone, that is, the Bible, is the final authority by which we are to live, because through it God has spoken and reveals himself to us (2 Timothy 3:14–17).

Christ alone

Christ alone is the one true Saviour of the world and the eternal Son of God (Acts 4:10–12). By his death on the cross and his being raised to life again, the guilt, penalty, and controlling power of sin is removed, and God demonstrates both his perfect love and his absolute justice (Romans 3:21–26; 5:8–10).

Grace alone

Salvation is a gift of grace alone and is not earned, because although people were originally created in the image of God, now, owing to the fallen, sinful condition we all inherit, it’s impossible for us to make any contribution to our own salvation (Ephesians 2:8; Hebrews 11:6).

Faith alone

We are saved by personal faith alone – i.e. trust in God’s gift of grace through Jesus – and not by works – i.e. doing good things (Ephesians 2:8–9). God himself is sovereign in salvation and so he must move in us by his Spirit to produce such faith and the transformed life that flows from it (Romans 8:1–17; Galatians 5:21–26).

For the glory of God alone

Our salvation and all we do in response is for the glory of God alone. (Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 10:31). The church itself exists as the community of people God has redeemed so that through them, he might be honoured and worshiped (1 Peter 2:5, 9; Ephesians 1:22; 3:21; 5:23, 25).

Coastal Hope Community Church are confessional churches, and much more detail about what we understand to be the truth of the Bible’s message is contained in those confessions. The confessions that we uphold include the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and in a more qualified way, the Westminster Confession.