Presbyterian Church

The City of Hervey Bay is located some 34 km north-east of Maryborough on the bay of the same name, which is protected from the ocean by Fraser Island. The area is a major tourist destination, and the bay is noted for its fishing. Originally one of several villages along the foreshore, Scarness is now a suburb of Hervey Bay.

As far back as 1922, Presbyterian worship was conducted in the Scarness Picture Theatre by ministers traveling from St Stephen's Church, Maryborough. A church hall was built in Freshwater Street, near the present church, in 1947, and the church that forms the centre of the present complex was opened in 1960, known for a time as St David's Presbyterian Church. The church was expanded in November 2008 with the addition of a new hall and modern foyer, with the organ still occupying its original position.1