Programs

ABM is structured into two distinct program areas: Overseas Programs and the Australian Indigenous Program.


Wontulup-Bi-Buya Collegs, Cairns
Wontulup-Bi-Buya Collegs, Cairns

Australian Indigenous Program

ABM's Indigenous Program seeks to support Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Anglicans in providing Christian ministry to their own communities. Projects such as support for prison chaplaincy in Queensland, ministry in camps in the Northern Territory, and a community centre in Mogo in New South Wales assist Indigenous Anglicans in their ministries while also helping non-Indigenous Australians to learn more about the challenges which Indigenous Australians face.


Local girl carrying water through rice terraces, Mountain Province, The Philippines
Local girl carrying water through rice terraces, Mountain Province, The Philippines

Overseas Programs

The Anglican Board of Mission’s Overseas Program comprises two distinct programs – Church to Church and Community Development. The Church to Church program works with Anglican Church partners in the Pacific, PNG, Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East to help deliver theological education, mission and church support programs. The Community Development program works with Anglican Church partners in the Pacific, PNG and Southeast Asia to help deliver grassroots, community driven development projects that cover issues such as basic health and education, food security and livelihood support. Projects undertaken through ABM’s Overseas Programs are carefully targeted and managed to ensure that those who need assistance are provided with opportunities to build upon and expand the gifts and talents already present in their communities. Several of our overseas program projects emphasise the place of children and young people in terms of developing their capacity to confront some of the spiritual and social issues that their communities face. One such project in the Church to Church program provides opportunities for young people from Sub Saharan Africa to engage in fellowship through university ministry in Algeria. ABM’s Overseas Program’s commitment to working with Anglican communities throughout the world illustrates the ways in which spiritual and social issues can be engaged in through a relationship based on working for love, hope and justice.

'The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting' - Milan Kundera