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Crowd gathered at the Westgarth Cinema for Merri Creek Anglican congregation member Jerome Cole's short film. Walk through the neighbourhoods around Clifton Hill and Fairfield, and you notice something distinctive: an unusually high number of people who make things. Creativity here is not confined to galleries or stages; it takes place in classrooms, studios, small businesses, co-working spaces, community organisations, back sheds, university labs, design offices, and kitchen

One of the most striking cultural shifts of the last few decades is the rise of the "spiritual but not religious" person. You meet them everywhere in Melbourne's inner-north. People who don't want institutions but crave transcendence. People who don't trust dogma but long for meaning. People who won't tick a denominational box but practise ritual, meditation, tarot, mindfulness, or a curated mosaic of spiritual practices. For these neighbours, the hunger is real, even if the

The second part of our church vision declares: "Imagine a church community whose active and transformative presence is dispersed in the neighbourhood like yeast in dough." This image comes from one of Jesus' shortest parables about the Kingdom of God (Matthew 13:33). Yeast works quietly and invisibly, yet transforms the whole batch of dough from within. In the same way, the Kingdom of God advances not through power, domination, or spectacle, but through small, faithful acts o