Wesley College

Wesley College was founded in 1923 as a boarding school for boys. It was named after John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist Church. Reverend John Wesley, recognised as the founder of Methodism, which in Australia became one of the three Christian communities that formed the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, was committed to engaging the people... of his day in theological and religious endeavour, capable of changing the lives of people and the nature of the society in which they lived. At the time of Wesley's death in 1791 it is estimated that more than one third of the entire population of England and Wales were known as "Methodists", the followers of Wesley's "method" of commitment to faith, education and the betterment of the human condition.Read More