The Wellspring Community is an Australia-wide Christian ecumenical community.

We aim to create a space where spirituality and justice meet, to deepen our relationship with God, to care for the earth, to foster the growth of an Australian spirituality and practise peace including working for a just relationship between First Nations communities and the later comers.

We are an ecumenical community, seeking to offer hospitality of the heart and inclusion to people of all cultures, faith traditions and LGBTQ IA+ identities.

We respect, value, and learn from different traditions and other faiths.

We are involved in prayer and politics. We work and advocate with like-minded people and groups in both our local areas and the wider world for a more just, peaceful and equal society and a more sustainable way of living. We are inspired by the Celtic creation Spirituality of the Iona Community in Scotland.

Our Rule

Wellspring Community members are committed to transformation of our relationship with God as revealed in Christ, with ourselves, with our communities, with society, with cultures and creation. To further our commitment, Wellspring has a pattern of life which guides our living. Some First Nation leaders call such a pattern "A right way of living before God". In earlier periods of Western history monastic communities called their Pattern of Life their "Rule" e.g., the Rule of St Benedict or Columba. Ours' is a simpler pattern. In joining Wellspring, members express a broad agreement with the Pattern of Life or Rule of the Community, and acknowledge that living by this Pattern of Life or being guided by it, is a worthy goal.

The Wellspring Pattern of Life, or Rule, involves:

• seeking to be open to the creative spirit of God in all of life as we each are led.

• living as an open and loving follower of Christ

• using the Prayer Diary and praying regularly for members

• being involved in compassionate prayer and action for peace and justice

• living simply and treading lightly on the earth

• connecting regularly with a Wellspring Community group or with another Community member

• contributing financially to the Wellspring Community

 Our Aims

• to be a space where spirituality and justice meet,

• to foster the growth of an Australian Christian Spirituality,

• to deepen our relationship with God,

• to care for the earth,

• practise peace

• work for a just relationship between First Nations communities and the later comers

• We are an inclusive community which seeks to offer hospitality to all cultures, gender identities and faith traditions.

• We respect, value, and learn from different Christian traditions and other faiths.

•  We are involved in prayer and politics. We work and advocate with like-minded people and groups in both our local areas and the wider world for a more just, peaceful and equal society and a more sustainable way of living.

• We are inspired by the Iona Community in Scotland.

  We believe that politics and economics are essential areas for Christians to be involved. We are committed to seeking a new, just economic order. Like the Iona Community we seek to rebuild the common life, bringing together work and worship, prayer and politics, sacred and secular, both globally and in our local community.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart

From our members whose ancestors have been in this land for countless years and those who have come more recently.

“The Voice to Parliament, Treaty and treaties, and a National Truth-Telling Commission, are the three central calls of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart and are a heartfelt plea from Aboriginal and Torres Strait people to the nation of Australia, from the depths of their powerlessness. The Uluru Statement from the Heart offers later comers a moral and ethical way to face our racist history of oppression and dispossession and move forward together. Justice for creation and First Nations people requires a re-alignment of the dominant western culture. The referendum on the Voice is a watershed moment, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to begin healing for our nation and our land.”

CLICK HERE to continue reading the Uluru Statement of the Heart Wellspring comment.

Our Logo

The windmill symbolises the Wellspring Community. An Australian icon, the windmill expresses our desire to live an Australian Christian faith that is integral to our culture and environment.

A windmill is wind driven. The blades of the windmill, the men and women of the Community, are impelled by the wind of God. A circular rim, expressing the unity of the Community, connects the blades to each other and the mill itself. The rim evokes the circle in the Celtic cross, the circle of eternity, the Alpha and the Omega, the globe of the earth, and the centrality of Christ.

We rotate with purpose. We connect to the land. We draw Jesus' life-giving water from the vast aquifers in the depths of this ancient land. From this eternal wellspring, water gushes to fill the troughs, tanks, and wells sometimes to sustain the flourishing life of a rugged land and at other times to transform life in a harsh, arid and occasionally degraded environment.

Our Publication - PIPELINE

Our quarterly publication provides stimulating articles on spirituality, justice, creation and faith. Find out the latest news and information about our community.

Please note that we share our name with other similarly-named organisations in Australia and throughout the world. Many of these share things in common with us - including the Christian faith and the Christian metaphor used in Scripture that inspires the name “Wellspring” - but they are distinct organisations. Our community is inspired by The Iona Community in the U.K. and has much in common with that community.