The Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association (PMSA) is an independent joint not for profit organisation of the Uniting Church in Australia and Presbyterian Church of Queensland. The PMSA's mission is to provide outstanding teaching and learning environments for our students and staff, in schools built on the teachings and examples of Jesus Christ. The PMSA owns and operates four independent schools: Brisbane Boys' College, Somerville House, Clayfield College and Sunshine Coast Grammar School. All the schools owned and managed by the Association are located in Queensland.
The PMSA and the PMSA schools have made a major contribution to Christian education in Queensland. The reason the original joint venture, which began in 1918, has been successful is largely because of the dedication of those men and women who have served its cause so faithfully and well over so many years. This dedication continues, giving confidence for the continued success of the PMSA's work. In 2018, the PMSA commemorated 100 years of providing an outstanding education and guiding young people with values for life. In a new era of education, the PMSA continues to work hard to evolve and change for the future benefit of all schools.
Despite the name of the PMSA, the 1977 merger of approximately two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church, the entire Methodist Church of Australasia, and almost all of the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia formed the Uniting Church of Australia. All PMSA schools are guided by and practise ecumenical Christian values - relationships, care, ethics, personal development, excellence and celebration.
Congregational churches are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.
The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977, when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia united under the Basis of Union. According to the church, it had 243,000 members in 2018. In the 2016 census, about 870,200 Australians identified with the church; in the 2011 census, the figure was 1,065,796. The UCA is Australia's third-largest Christian denomination, behind the Catholic and the Anglican Churches. There are around 2,000 UCA congregations, and 2001 National Church Life Survey (NCLS) research indicated that average weekly attendance was about 10 per cent of census figures.
A Christian school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization.
The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia.
The World Methodist Council (WMC), founded in 1881, is a consultative body and association of churches in the Methodist tradition. It comprises 80 member denominations in 138 countries which together represent about 80 million people.
Somerville House is an independent, boarding and day school for girls, located in South Brisbane, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Brisbane Boys' College (BBC) is an independent, Presbyterian and Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Toowong, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Harold D'Arcy Wood is a semi-retired minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and was President of the UCA Assembly from 1991 to 1994. He has been active in ecumenism in Australia and globally.
The United Faculty of Theology was a recognised teaching institution of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.
Clayfield College is an independent, Uniting Church and Presbyterian, day and boarding school, predominantly for girls, located in Clayfield, an inner-northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia.
John Paul College is an independent, non-denominational Christian early learning, primary, and secondary day and boarding school, located in the Logan City suburb of Daisy Hill, Queensland, Australia.
Kinross Wolaroi School is an independent Uniting Church co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day and boarding school, located in Orange, a rural city 260 kilometres (160 mi) west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Manly West is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Manly West had a population of 11,978 people.
Forest Glen is a rural residential locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Forest Glen had a population of 1,390 people.
Moreton Bay College is an independent Uniting Church, day school for girls, located in Manly West, an outer suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Established in 1901 as the Moreton Bay Girls' High School, by Alice J. Alison Greene and her sister Anne, the college currently caters for approximately 1,257 students from Preschool to Year 12.
Selly Oak Colleges was a federation of educational facilities, primarily concerned with theology, social work and teacher training, in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England. The Federation was for many years associated with the University of Birmingham. They included the College of the Ascension, Crowther Hall, Kingmead College, St Andrew's Hall.
St Andrews Uniting Church is a heritage-listed church at the corner of Maryborough and Woongarra Streets, Bundaberg Central, Bundaberg, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Lange Leopold Powell and built from 1931 to c. 1940. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 August 2004.
Methodist College Kuala Lumpur is a private college in Malaysia, established in 1983 by the Methodist Council of Education.
Richmond Hill is a suburb of Charters Towers in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.
