Christadelphians have been meeting in Wamuran for the past 34 years. A group of us hired the Wamuran Community Hall for our first Sunday service on December 17, 1989. We started small, with 11 members who came from Mt Mee, Woodford, Stanmore, Royston, Kallangur and as far away as Redcliffe (though, this couple had already begun to relocate to Cove Rd in Woodford). 7 children attended Sunday School that first Sunday. The meeting began because we wanted to open a lampstand closer to home. Back then, the closest Christadelphian meeting was in Kallangur. In the beginning, the Wamuran Christadelphian Ecclesia was a mixture of newly or recently baptised and older brothers and sisters.

Back then, the area was growing and people were moving further out. What’s changed since then? Our meeting at Wamuran was friendly and welcoming and probably had something of a country feel to it. The view of the Glasshouse Mountains didn’t hurt. Visitors came to have a look, seeking smaller mortgages, greener pastures and a God-centred, family home. Some decided to stick around. The years rolled on and as we approached the year 2000, the group had swelled to about 80 members and a Sunday School that was half that size again. A wonderfully active and vibrant group of young people rounded out our scene.

Over the years, we did our best to be a lampstand, showing the gospel of salvation to the larger community. Early in 1990, we held one of our first preaching activities at the community hall up in Mt Mee. We showed a short film about Israel and it’s ancient homeland in the Middle East, followed by a short talk on the subject. We hired the film, which came in a metal canister, from a shop in Brisbane. We found and borrowed an aging 35mm film projector, and before the night, practiced spooling the film on it. We wanted to put our best forward on the evening. We weren’t phased by the clanky noises the projector made as it rolled through the film, nor the white spots and mirages that appeared fleetingly on the film. Several visitors responded to our advertising and attended. We were elated. One of our visitors chatted with us over coffee and tea afterward and mentioned that he had enjoyed the presentations, good information and all that, but he had found our technology to be rather quaint and well, distracting. We had to admit that our friend was absolutely right and we never again showed a 35mm, celluloid film in our preaching efforts.

Throughout the 90s and into the Noughties, we staged preaching efforts not just in Wamuran, but in neighbouring towns and any wide spot in the road we could find – in the likes of Caboolture, Woodford, Kilcoy, Peachester and Beerwah. We moved on to multi-week seminars on how to read and understand the Bible, set up Bible stalls at the Caboolture and Woodford shows and on occasion, handed out leaflets on Saturday mornings in Woodford. We were a lampstand in a world that was growing darker.

We continued to meet in the community hall until 2005 when Council declared the roof to be unsafe. After 16 years, we had to move out. We eventually found a new home at the Wamuran Sports Complex where we currently hold our Sunday meetings. As of early 2025, our group consists of about 108 members with a Sunday School of about 90 children. The more things change, the more they stay the same.