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Home » New Year Welcomes A New Pastor And New Name For Canowindra’s Cooperating Churches

New Year Welcomes A New Pastor And New Name For Canowindra’s Cooperating Churches

21 January, 2026 By Canowindra Phoenix Editor

A Commissioning Service for the incoming Priest in Charge, Community Pastor and Youth Pastor will be held at All Saints Canowindra on 31 January 2026 with a BBQ to follow. You can follow Harvest Community Church on Facebook.

Harvest Community Church is the new um­brella parish name for the cooperating An­glican and Uniting Parishes of Canowindra, Woodstock, Eugowra and Cranbury.

Canowindra’s Cooperating Church has kept itself alive in recent decades by shar­ing resources, ministry and clergy but has been struggling with a core of ageing pa­rishioners for some time. Sunday schools folded years ago and a generation or more have grown up with no knowledge at all of Jesus Christ, God, Christian faith and the meaning of Christian living.

This is about to be turned around by the recent arrival from Queanbeyan of Rever­end Mick George, his wife Tammy and their four young adult children, all of whom are committed Christians. Mick and his fam­ily have offered to pastor the Cooperating Church for two years free of charge (ie, no salary), confident that they can build it into a vibrant modern evangelical church.

They have sold their house in Quean­beyan and moved to the Anglican rectory on the corner of Tilga and Suttor Streets.

Mick had a career in the military where he was a company commander in the Royal Australian Infantry, deployed to East Timor and undertook border security operations in the Torres Strait and northern Australia.

He was subsequently ordained as an army chaplain.

From 1 February 2026, you can join Har­vest Community Church to worship at:

• 10:30am every Sunday at All Saints An­glican Canowindra.

• 8am every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at St Matthew’s Anglican Church Woodstock.

• 3pm every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at St Matthew’s Anglican Church Eugowra.

• 3pm every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the Month at the beautiful Cranbury Uniting Church, Cranbury.

Head along to see what Mick, Tammy and their kids have to say and sing about the life of Christ.

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