Lakeside Baptist Church Incorporated (Lakeside), located in North Lake, 20km from the CBD in Perth, Western Australia, is a unique church. It all started in the late 1980’s, as a small church that had a desire to reach the local community through a facility that could be used every day of the week. In February 1992, Lakeside held its first church service on ‘Court One’ and the Recreation Centre was officially launched in March of that year.
Today, Lakeside is a vibrant facility with around 8,000 people each week participating in a variety of programs and sporting competitions. The very nature of Lakeside is that it’s a meeting point, a third place, a hub where people connect and their lives crossover, whether on the basketball court, in the Café, the gym or gathering on a Sunday morning at church. Lakeside is for the whole community to enjoy and benefit from. We strive to be Christian in vision, mission, and practical operation, but the facility is for the whole community to use and enjoy.
The core and driving force of Lakeside, is a vibrant church that is passionate about seeing people say “yes” to Jesus. Lakeside was never just about being a Recreation Centre; there has always been a larger purpose. Lakeside is not a church that meets in a Recreation Centre, rather, we are a church that runs a Recreation Centre as one of our ministries and part of our mission in the community.