CITY CHURCH IS ALL ABOUT
Transforming lives through salvation, healing and purpose in Jesus.
We are a community dedicated to passionately loving God and others, reflecting His unconditional love in every aspect of our lives. Our mission is to extend His grace and compassion throughout our city, so that everyone may experience the profound transformation that comes from knowing Him.
Who Is City Church.
City Church began as Christian Outreach Centre (COC) in 1987 with just 10 people gathering to worship. As the church grew, it began meeting at Illaroo Public School each Sunday, eventually hosting two services weekly. By 1992, the church had outgrown the school building and moved to its current location at 167 McMahons Road, North Nowra, surrounded by beautiful bushland.
After experiencing rapid growth, a major building extension was undertaken, and in 2009, a new auditorium was opened, seating over 600 people. Known as Nowra City Church, the church continued to thrive and, in 2015, was renamed City Church under the leadership of Pastors Jason and Michelle Smith.
City Church remains highly active in the community, demonstrating God’s love through weekly food outreaches, a food store, vibrant youth and kids ministries, and scripture programs in local schools. Along with our Nowra location, we also have campus locations in Batemans Bay and Macarthur, Sydney.
In 2024, City Church launched a renewed vision: "Transforming lives through salvation, healing, and purpose in Jesus." This vision reflects our heart to see individuals encounter God, grow in faith, and make an eternal impact in their communities.
Jason & Michelle Smith
SENIOR PASTORS | CITY CHURCH
Jason and Michelle have been the Senior Pastors of City Church Nowra since April 2015. They first came into leading churches when they pioneered their first church in Morayfield, Brisbane in 1999. This church was birthed from their own home and started by simply inviting the neighbours in their own street. Twelve years later they had established a thriving church of over 400 members.
International Network of Churches (INC), the church network of which our church is a part of, then asked Jason & Michelle to move to Auckland in New Zealand, where they took on the responsibility of being the National Chairman of New Zealand and Tonga for INC. God blessed their time in New Zealand and graced them to lead the church into purchasing and renovating an amazing property for the church in Auckland and seeing the church grow and move forward greatly.
Four years later they were asked by INC to come to Nowra and take on the Senior Pastor role here. God has thoroughly blessed this move for them and their two teenage children Jayden and Tayla. They are a very active and musical family and have always loved God and His church with a passion. Jason and Michelle began their first church in their early twenties, so they have a rare combination of having a lot of experience and still being young enough to be able to invest many years of service into City Church Nowra. They are so excited to see where God takes our church in the coming years.
Meet the Team
Ps Dan & Mikala Beazley
Assistant Pastors
Our Facilities.
167 McMahons Road North Nowra
Our church building sits on nine acres of bushland in North Nowra NSW. Our main auditorium seats over 600 people and a secondary smaller auditorium where our Kids ministry meets. We have a newly renovated Connect Cafe that can seat over 100 people as well as an outdoor alfresco area with even more seating. Our property also includes a Kids facility both for primary age children and a specific toddlers building catering for little ones. If you are new parents, we also have a room to cater for you. There is also a playground for your children's entertainment.
As well as the two auditoriums, we also have conference meeting rooms and media facilities to make our services modern and current. Our property also hosts large gardens that are used by local permaculture gardeners and a vegetable garden that also provides food for our local HUB discount food store. The HUB food store is also located on our property and is open on Friday every week.