Members of Penshurst Anglican Church's youth group took part in the World's Greatest Shave in April raising $2000 for the Leukaemia Foundation.

All 15 youth group members coloured their hair and senior minister the Rev Bart Vanden Hengel (pictured) had his hair shaved into a mohawk for a day.

"It only lasted a day before I shaved it all off. I didn't want to shock the 8am congregation on Sunday morning!"

The church also has a congregation member who lost his hair following chemo and radiotherapy following the removal of a brain tumour.

"We thought it was a good way to empathise with him and walk with him in his public baldness," Mr Vanden Hengel says. "We plan to get the kids engaged in a wide variety of social causes. Later this term, we are going to help out at a soup kitchen in the city."