Saint Mary’s Anglican Church was established in about 1866, and is part of the Mission District of Saint Francis of Assisi which encompasses Cobden, Terang, Timboon, Peterborough, Simpson and Camperdown.

Saint Mary’s has a warden and guardian elected by the worshipping parishioners each year as well as an active guild of four dedicated parishioners. Our current worshipping membership is very small with attendance each Sunday being between six and eight although we have a pastoral roll of 65

We meet three Sundays a month at 11.30am and one Saturday night when we have a service and then a meal and movie to which everyone is welcome.

The building, now used as the church hall, was the very first church with the beautiful brick building coming nearly 40 years later.

We are blessed to be able to meet in a great building that has been standing in the same place for 101 years, having celebrated the Centenary of Consecration in February of 2011 with 150 people attending.  This was a wonderful time of celebration of God’s presence for our small congregation.

 As we are totally self-funded, one of our major fund raisers is our fete in November. We have it on a Saturday morning and it lasts for about three and a half hours, not like in 1911 when it went for three nights.  That year, it was necessary to continue the fete into Monday evening when all the goods left were auctioned. The result of the enterprise of the committee was highly satisfactory with about £140 being taken – when expenses were taken into consideration, it left about £100 for the building fund.

We may be a small faith community and, while our doors may not be physically open all through the week, they are open to the people who attend services each week. All you need to do is speak to one of the members of the congregation and they will endeavour to help you.

In conjunction with Anglicare, we provide a Cobden casserole bank. If you have someone who is ill and needs help with meals, we have the facility to help. Contact Kaye Hanks on 5595 1210 and she will be able to help with a few casseroles.