Welcome to the Sanctuary Christian Ministries Website

Office/Shop: 201 Waymouth St, Adelaide, SA, 5000. Phone: 0410725792. Email: sanctuary@adelaide.on.net

Our church meets at 201 Waymouth Street, Adelaide CBD, SA, 5000 [church map or shop map]. We have a variety of church activities to suit people of all ages and interests - including AWANA, music, outreach and radio broadcasting [see picture gallery]. The word "Sanctuary" in the church name is derived from Psalm 96:6b ("strength and beauty are in His sanctuary") and if you happen to visit our church, you will see this for yourself. Check out our Sanctuary Shop in Adelaide CBD. We have just purchased a 28-seater coach bus for our church transportation.

Pastor Neil Aitchison [picture and more info] has been the pastor of Sanctuary Christian Ministries since it was first incorporated in November, 2001. He is 42 years old, single and was raised on a sheep farm at a town called Keith in the South-East of South Australia. He attended the Clarence Valley Baptist Bible College in Grafton, New South Wales where he acquired a Diploma in Theology and then studied at the Australian Bible Seminary in Sydney, NSW. His sending church is Liberty Baptist Church with Pastor Keith Piper [more info]. Pastor Aitchison is also the manager of a piano shop and a power company.

Outreach is conducted after most meetings for approximately one hour [see t-shirts]. The two most common types of outreach are placing gospel tracts in letter boxes and street witnessing which primarily involves handing out Gospel leaflets and talking to people about God on the streets using our Sanctuary Shop as a home base. We hand out tracts on the streets at Glenelg twice a week. We also have weekly outreach along Adelaide's "The East End" of Rundle Street, Hindley Street and the Adelaide Railway Station. We are seeking council approval to conduct open-air meetings in the Adelaide CBD. We find that door knocking has mixed responses - so we are selective how and when we do it. Anyone interested in joining in these outreach activities (or if you have new ideas), please feel free to contact us. We will then tell you when and where the next outreach activity is happening.

Surfing Ministry involves using our 19-seater Coaster bus, a 28-seater Coach bus, a 4x4 Pathfinder, a yet-to-be-purchased beach buggy and a specially built trailer with waterproof, locable canopy and surfboard racks, surfboards and wetsuits to travel to surfing beaches around South Australia. This ministry goes on all year round (....cold weather ain't stopping us!) and is designed to attract both the backpacker and teenage "street kid" and introduce them to the Gospel, the Bible and God's way of living. So far, we have been swamped with enquiries. There is an in-bus TV and DVD player to show Bible movies whilst travelling to the surfing beaches. Those who go on the surfing trips are also invited to attend the many other church meetings that we conduct. This ministry is run by Luke Drummond [more info]. Also check out our Safari Ministry.

Our AWANA youth program has been very effective and it has attracted young people from all backgrounds and circumstances. Many of the young people have come from family break-ups and domestic abuse situations so there can be difficultes maintaining discipline - but by God's grace, we have seen most change their lives around. In both 2005 and 2006, we held camps at Mylor (near Adelaide) and travelled to the Snowy Mountains for snow trips. We use one 12-seater bus and our 28-seater coach bus which can all be expensive to run, but it assists many people who want to attend our church but don't have their own transportation.

The Gospel Light Radio Program that was broadcast live on 99.7 WOWFM was a ministry of Lighthouse Baptist Church run by Pastor Liam Luz with Pastor Neil Aitchison as a second host - it was a great success. A new radio program to be run by Sanctuary Christian Ministries will commence soon on Adelaide's 88.7 CoastFM. For more information about this and other activities by Sanctuary Christian Ministries - click here.

Pictures Of Church Meeting Halls (2002-2006)
Pictures Of "Gospel Light" Program At Radio Station
Pictures Of Beach Outreach Teams
Picture Of AWANA Leader and Clubbers
Logos Used On Church T-Shirts For Outreach
Clipart For All Church Occasions
Picture Gallery

Free Bibles from Graceway Bible Society (in Canada) are available on request if you write to us explaining why you want a Bible. We also have over 200,000 gospel tracts (with the title "Specially For You") in stock and can supply them free of charge if you pick them up from our church - they have been donated to us from Gospel Publications in New Zealand.

If you have any recorded music, sermons or short "sound-bites" (that is, 15-30 second recordings) with a Bible message or church advertisment, please feel free to send them to us seeing as we are looking for Australian produced material for our radio program. The recordings must be on CD and of good-to-high clarity. Click here to see the program schedule and to download samples of on-air material for use on other radio stations.

The regular weekly activities for our church are:

Surf Shop and Cafe Lounge* open 9am - 10pm (Mon to Sat)
Bible Cinema Movies* every night 10pm - 2am.

Sunday: 10am Service at 201 Waymouth St, Adelaide CBD, SA.
6pm Service*.
8pm Bible College Lectures*.
9:30pm Chill-out till late*.
Monday: 8:30pm Chill-out till late*.
Thursday: 8:30pm Bible Study* and Outreach.
Friday: 7pm Young Adults (Youth) Meeting* and Outreach.
Saturday: 8am Surfing and Safari Trips (all day).
7pm Open-Air Meeting.

* these meeting are held at 201 Waymouth Street in Adelaide CBD, SA.