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St Aidan's Uniting Church North Balwyn is a friendly church within the Presbytery of Bourke in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Melway 46 F3) It has a congregation of 300 people with an average attendance in excess of 100 worshippers each Sunday. Our supply minister is the Rev Vladimir Korotkov. Sunday Morning worship commences at 10.00 am. The worship style is formal in the Protestant tradition. The music is led by a robed SATB choir and a magnificent pipe organ. The preaching and liturgy are commensurate with a forward-looking Christianity for the 21st century. Evening Prayers takes place at 7.00 pm on the last Sunday of each month after our Mind~Body~Spirit speaker at 5.30 pm. This half-hour service is a prayerful, meditative and musical time that focusses on the relationship between faith and life as discussed by the speaker. History of St Aidan's

• We aim to be a congregation that risks living the teachings of Jesus, renouncing privilege and living in conscientious
  active resistance against evil, both individually and within society.
• We aim to participate in bringing to fruition God's good intention for the world.
• We aim to help people discover good purpose in life through worship and learning.
• We believe good relationships between people are the most important means of expressing our beliefs in the God of Jesus.
• We aim to be an open and welcoming church that declares God's love for all people,
  and invites all people to join us in following the way of Jesus the Christ.
• We aim to recognise the integrity of other faiths that have different names for relationship with God.

• To preach the Word in a way that is relevant to people’s lives.
• To recognise the strength of mainly traditional music in liturgical worship.
• To maintain the strong educational opportunities, enabling the exploration of faith and the living out of it in the wider world.
• To maintain a strong pastoral ministry.
• To continue and build on our current established programmes and enrich them with new content and directions of exploration.
• To be open to new mission opportunities.
• To create opportunities for busy younger people to attend and participate in the life of the church.