Building on our heritage

The Milton Anglican community is founded on generations of love and prayer.  We therefore especially honour both the Indigenous people of our area, and their profound stewardship, and the later-comers of faith who helped shape more recent life and spirit in Brisbane.  We are grateful for all elders who walk with us and seek to draw on their wisdom. 

 Responding to God's 'new thing'

Grounded in the deep wisdom of our faith tradition, our community seeks to share God's love in an ever changing environment.  As an inclusive & affirming church, we therefore seek to cherish the young, newcomers and outsiders to our community as people from whom we can learn and who can help us grow into the 'new creation' into which we are called afresh. 

Anglican Ways

We are delighted to share cooperative relationships with many other different groups and faith traditions, but are blessed in being part of the Anglican Church Southern Queensland (Diocese of Brisbane).  Find out more here

St Francis College Milton

We rejoice to share life, prayer and space with St Francis College.  This provides intellectual and other stimulus and deeper relationships to our life together. We are also blessed by involvement of formation students in our leadership.

Priest in Charge

Penny Jones (pictured left) is priest-in-charge of the Anglican Parish of Auchenflower-Milton (the official legal title of the Milton Anglican community) and was commissioned in January 2017  in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit.  She also works as Director of Formation for St Francis College.  Penny is originally from the north west of England, a graduate of Girton College Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon (Oxford University).  One of the first English women ordained priest, she has served in a range of different roles in the UK and Australia: including in inner-city, rural and suburban parishes; theological education and spiritual direction and retreat leading.  She is also skilled in a number of other capacities, including as a supervisor of spiritual directors, as an internationally recognised labyrinth facilitator, and as a teacher of dance, drama and InterPlay. 

Penny's spouse Jo Inkpin is also an Anglican priest and works as Lecturer in History and Senior Tutor at St Francis College, sharing in the life of the Milton Anglican community.  Jo has also served in a variety of ministerial capacities, including as a former staff member of the National Council of Churches in Australia, and is particularly active in interfaith, sexuality & gender, and Reconciliation issues. 

some of Penny and Jo's talks and reflections can be found here

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