Our Story

Having our origins in Christian Life Centre Ringwood, urbanlife began its journey as a church plant in January 2005. In August of the same year Urban Life Café and Community Centre opened its doors for the first time, realising our desire to be a community resource located in the heart of our city.

The journey from a well established traditional church to a new, experimental community of faith arose from a conversation that began in 2001 The conversation asked such questions as: ‘What does it look like to follow Jesus in a rapidly changing Society? What does it mean to be a community who are committed to issues of justice and mercy in our local community?

The answers to these questions resulted in the urbanlife community committing to re-invest our assets and live for the well-being of local communities.

As urbanlife continues this exciting journey of faith our hope is that we would echo God’s story to those around us, encouraging spiritual creativity and including all in discovering God’s story for mankind.