ABM and AID have a holistic understanding of mission.

In Luke’s gospel, Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah:

‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’
(NRSV, Luke 4:18-19)

In seeking to follow Christ, ABM and AID have a mandate to work with Anglican Church partners in Australia and overseas. Partnership involves listening respectfully to how churches want to respond to God’s mission in their own contexts and discussing together how we might support them achieve their goals. ABM’s Church to Church Program focuses on spirituality and the work of Anglicans in Development (AID) aims to build sustainable communities.

We ground all our work in one or more of the Five Marks of Mission. AID’s Sustainable Communities work also embraces the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to significantly reduce global poverty, hunger and disease by 2030.

ABM’s Anglicans in Development is a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Code of Conduct. ACFID is a network of Australian Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) that share a commitment to ending poverty and promoting human rights. (View a list of AID’s Memberships and Associations here.)

Some of our Sustainable Communities projects are partially funded by the Australian Government through Australian Aid.