Programs

ABM Project Book 2010

The new Project Book will be available and distributed in February this year.

You can download a PDF copy of the Project Book for 2010.

Please note that ABM has a more extensive program of projects which will be promoted throughout the coming year, other than what is already featured in the Project Book.

ABM is structured into two distinct program areas: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Program and Overseas Programs.

Fr Gundu and his grandson Leonstan © Steve Daughtry/ABM 2004

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Program

This program seeks to support Aboriginal & 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.

Locals transporting water in Vanuatu © Don Brice/ABM 2008

Overseas Program

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. ABM’s Overseas Program’s commitment to working with Anglican communities throughout the world illustrates the ways in which these issues can be engaged in through a relationship based on working for love, hope and justice.