Our Sunday Worship

Our Sunday service is for the whole family!

There's always something refreshing and exciting when we gather as a church. Our services start with passionate worship followed by an inspiring biblical teaching.

We also cater for children from newborn babies to primary aged kids at the Children's church which provides quality, age specific programs with craft, music and Bible teaching.

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Our Vision

Simply, our vision is to Shine for Christ and our mission is to be a Christ-centred community. We have dedicated a page to present you a good overview on this, please read more here.

Our Pastor

Rev. Richard Tan has been serving as our pastor since August 2005. Prior to that, he served with the Methodist Church in Singapore for 10 years before completing a Master in Theological Studies programme in New Zealand. While he was there, he was an itinerant minister with the Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand for almost 3 years. Currently he is connected to the Wesleyan Church of Australia and associated with AFCM Australia. He is married to Joanne Goh since 1994, and together, they have two lovely children, Amanda Joy and Nathaniel Faith.

Our History

Firstlight has its beginning as the English-speaking congregation of Perth Chinese Christian Church (PCCC) located at Doubleview, Western Australia. We began as a church for Chinese migrants some thirty years ago. As God added to His church, we undertook a new vision and a fresh impetus to meet the challenges of our time. In step with its vision to reach out to the larger community of Perth, we made the deliberate decision to change from a migrant church into a mission community, to become a church without walls. In February 2006, we adopted our new name — Firstlight. This new name came from Proverbs 4:18, "The path of the righteous is like the first light of dawn, shining ever brighter unto the perfect day."

As we entered into a time of revitalising growth, strategic planning for future extension in terms of space and structure became natural and inevitable. An opportunity arose in November 2007 for Firstlight to establish a new worship site at ECU, Mt Lawley. By faith, our first Sunday Worship Service was held on 3 February, 2008 at Building 3, ECU Mt. Lawley Campus. Since then, we are thriving well as a global community of worshippers.

On 15 March 2008, the PCCC Board of Elders approved the proposal for Firstlight to become a fully autonomous entity by 1 July 2008. The approval was followed by a Memorandum of Understanding between Firstlight and PCCC, outlining details on administrative matters and future cooperation. Firstlight sees itself sharing a common spiritual heritage with PCCC, and in His grace, we hope to grow an amicable relationship with each other.

The Inaugural Dedication Service held on 6 July 2008 marked a new beginning for Firstlight Church. As a newly independent church, we believe God will multiply Firstlight to transform the city of Perth and nations beyond for His Kingdom’s sake.