Gungahlin Bible Church first gathered at Harrison School on April 18th 2021 as a church plant from Southside Bible Church. Around 50 adults and children, most living in or around the Gungahlin region, were sent from Southside to be part of this new church. Dom Fiocco (Planting Pastor) and Adam Chessum (Evangelist / Pastor) left their pastoral roles at Southside to serve at GBC – a new evangelical church on Canberra’s landscape.

Planting in 2021 was a difficult year because of Covid lockdowns and much sickness not long after we began. Through these trying months God proved His faithfulness and continued to watch over this young church family. After months of lockdowns we re-gathered again and in God’s kindness by November 2022, had outgrown Harrison School and re-located to Franklin School. 

In God´s kindness, as the church grew, in 2024 we commissioned Aggie Mok for part-time Women´s Ministry and Nerida Stevens was also recognised with her gifts as a Ministry Support Worker. In late April 2025 we re-located to Shirley Smith High School in Kenny. (We had to move from Franklin School because we no longer had facilities to run our children´s ministries on Sundays.) In May we employed Jessica Gajardo as a part-time admin worker to help with the growing needs of the church and Aggie was appointed full-time.

In late 2025 Adam left his pastoral ministry at GBC to pursue military ministry serving at ADFA Focus. In 2026 we commissioned Paul Ahn as a Pastor-in-Training.