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How your church can connect with Anglican Aid
The Archbishop of Sydney’s Anglican Aid is the overseas aid, development, and ministry support agency of Sydney Anglicans in partnership with the global church.
We help churches like yours to ‘remember the poor’ (Galatians 2:10), sharing resources and building prayerful relationships with churches and Christian organisations in the neediest parts of the world, as they show Christ’s love to their communities.
We’d love to help your church form meaningful connections with our faithful overseas partners through prayer and regular updates.
You can be confident that what you’re your church is able to give will always be delivered hand-in-hand with the gospel.
As members of the global body of Christ, we’re to work together for God’s good purposes, proclaiming the good news, and loving others as Christ loved us. We’re excited to work more closely with mission-minded churches like yours!
Through Anglican Aid, we, our people, could understand love at a deeper level. Because we don’t know each other, they don’t know the people in Australia, but Anglican Aid, through the people, helped us. And they have realised, ‘wow, that is love’.
Bishop Sami Razafindralambo
Diocese of Toliara, Madagascar
I was given this dam liner and planted several things and they are really growing! I thank God for that, and I thank the Anglican Aid friends for that…We have seen the hand of God. More people coming [to church], more souls coming to Christ each and every day. We are so happy for that. Thank you for your prayers.
Joseph
Ministry Apprentice, Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya
We want to thank God for the gift of Christian partnership in gospel ministry – a ministry that is holistic in focus, ministering to the soul but also to the body, so that the abundant life that Jesus Christ promised to all who come to him is realised.
Bishop Daniel Qampicha Wario
Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya
I thank Anglican Aid that funded this program. Before I joined the program, I was desperately looking at my children starving without knowing what to do. I was without any hope. I have really seen that God exists and can use other people to bring hope and joy in our lives. God bless all the donors of this program.
Noella
Program Participant, Gitega Food Security Project, Burundi
Why choose Anglican Aid to help your church remember the poor?
We are gospel-driven
Anglican Aid was founded by Sydney Anglicans – beginning nearly a century ago with Archbishop Howard Mowll. Our staff and project partners profess an authentic faith in Christ. We remain firmly aligned with reformed evangelical theology as an organisation embedded in the Sydney Anglican Diocese.
We are trustworthy
We are accredited by the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) and a member of Christian Ministry Advancement Standards Council (CMASC). Our finances are independently audited annually by KPMG and published on our website. Anglican Aid’s board is appointed by the Synod of the Diocese of Sydney, and reports to Synod.
We take stewarship seriously
Over the last three years, Anglican Aid spent 87% of overall donations on our overseas projects, and 13% on ensuring we continue to raise funds and build partnerships, while meeting the highest compliance and communications standards. Your giving to Anglican Aid really makes a difference to the most needy in our world.
We help those who are in most need
We strategically focus on the poorest nations, where the local church is lacking resources to train leaders and show practical love to their neighbour. Following our Heavenly Father’s heart for the widow, orphan, foreigner, and poor, we work in places where those in most need are often forgotten, persecuted, or considered cursed. Our partnership model allows us to help in areas where other NGOs may be unable or unwilling to work.
We strengthen churches
Africa will be home to more than 1 billion Christians by 2050!* Yet most pastors in sub-Saharan Africa have not received training, and many don’t even own a Bible. Anglican Aid is strengthening churches by helping to train church leaders where they’re urgently needed, and improving or establishing new Bible college facilities and upskilling lecturers. We are able to make a bigger difference for the long term by strengthening local church leaders, who are deeply embedded in their own communities.
We help local Christians transform communities
You can be sure your gifts are sent in the name of Jesus and distributed by faithful brothers and sisters who share Christ’s love as they provide aid and run long-term development projects in their communities. Many of our projects are delivered through Anglican churches, with oversight from Dioceses and Provinces, which provide scale, governance, and structure for lasting impact, and give access to their broad geographical reach.
What type of connection could your church have with Anglican Aid?
The work of Anglican Aid is supported by a wide range of people, each playing their part in strengthening overseas churches and resourcing them to love their neighbours. You can be involved in this work too, whatever your church looks like.
The work of Anglican Aid is supported by a wide range of people, each playing their part in strengthening overseas churches and resourcing them to love their neighbours. You can be involved in this work too, whatever your church looks like.
The work of Anglican Aid is supported by a wide range of people, each playing their part in strengthening overseas churches and resourcing them to love their neighbours. You can be involved in this work too, whatever your church looks like.
The work of Anglican Aid is supported by a wide range of people, each playing their part in strengthening overseas churches and resourcing them to love their neighbours. You can be involved in this work too, whatever your church looks like.
A general connection to a category of projects
You will get updates related to a project category like training pastors, equipping Christian leaders, ministry help, education, food security, health, income generation, vulnerable people, or WASH.
A specific connection to a location or project partner
You will get updates from the project as they become available. You will have opportunity to rejoice at the change and growth that God brings to a particular group of people.
An occasional connection when a specific need arises
You will hear about Anglican Aid’s emergency appeals, giving your people an opportunity to respond quickly to a crisis.
A general connection to all our work around the world
You will get regular updates from a range of places and projects. Your congregation will gain a great appreciation for what God is doing around the world.
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What resources and opportunities to connect are available for your church?
What types of projects could your church support?
Anglican Aid focuses on resourcing churches in the world’s poorest nations as they proclaim Jesus and love their neighbour. All of our overseas partners are faithful Christian organisations. The majority are Anglican churches operating within the structure of dioceses and provinces.
We work with our overseas partners in a holistic way to both strengthen churches and transform communities – through long-term aid and development projects and by supporting the training of their church leaders. Hearts are transformed as our partners reach out in love, serve their communities, and proclaim the gospel, bearing fruit that lasts forever.
The projects shown below in the Diocese of Gitega, Burundi, Diocese of Marsabit, Kenya, Diocese of Kadugli, Sudan, and Diocese of Tarime, Tanzania are just a few examples of God’s work around the world that your church could support through a connection with Anglican Aid.
Diocese of Gitega in Burundi
Gitega Water and Sanitation
Anglican Aid and the Diocese of Gitega are providing access to clean water by improving and protecting 22 natural springs.
Gitega Food Security
Anglican Aid is partnering with the Diocese of Gitega, to improve food security in Burundi.
Gitega Biblical Leadership
Training lay leaders at Gitega Bible School to faithfully teach the Bible and provide pastoral care.
Diocese of Marsabit in Kenya
Kenya Biblical Leadership
Anglican Aid is partnering with the Diocese of Marsabit in Kenya to equip church leaders as disciple-makers and community leaders.
Marsabit Generate!: Water Harvesting and Harnessing
Anglican Aid is partnering with the Diocese of Marsabit in Kenya to support communities in harvesting and harnessing water in the name of Jesus.
Marsabit Aid for Victims of Conflict and Famine
Anglican Aid has provided internally displaced people and locals facing famine in Northern Kenya with food relief and a community shelter.
Diocese of Tarime in Tanzania
Tanzania: Tarime Girls Secondary School
Anglican Aid is supporting the Diocese of Tarime to provide quality Christian education to girls from rural areas with limited opportunities.
Tanzania: Diocese of Tarime Preschool
Anglican Aid is supporting a Christian preschool in the Diocese of Tarime to provide early education and grow disciples of Jesus.
ON SOLID GROUND: Train Church Leaders
Anglican Aid is helping to strengthen churches in some of the world’s poorest places by training men and women for ministry and leadership.
Diocese of Kadugli in Sudan
Sudanese IDP Relief, Nuba Mountains
Anglican Aid is partnering with the Diocese of Kadugli in the Nuba Mountains to help provide essential aid to Internally Displaced People (IDPs).
SUDAN: Hearing God’s word
People in the Nuba Mountains are eager to listen to audio Bibles.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. We value the prayers and awareness raising of Anglican Aid projects through churches. We know that churches go through seasons, and we appreciate when they give in times of plenty.
It is a right response to the gospel of Jesus for both individuals and churches to “remember the poor”. The apostle Paul was eager to do this (Galatians 2:10), and the Macedonians “urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service” (2 Corinthians 8:4). In fact, they gave even “in the midst of a very severe trial”, proving the sincerity of their love.
Anglican Aid enables churches here in Sydney and beyond to give to the poorest of our brothers and sisters in some of the darkest places in this world. God has entrusted us with great wealth, not only in a financial sense, but also in theological and practical knowledge, and in opportunity to do good. Our government and culture are stable, shaped by centuries of Christian influence, seen most of all in our welfare, health, and education systems.
We must not take what has been given to us for granted, but rather take the opportunity that has been bestowed on us to live out the truth that “it is more blessed to give than receive” (Acts 20:35).
By working together, Christians across Sydney, and from further afield, can reach the poorest places with larger-scale projects and initiatives. Anglican Aid provides the structures and efficient processes that enable our combined effort to have a greater impact amongst those in deepest need.
Anglican Aid does not receive government or diocesan funding or income from property investments, but solely from the generous giving of Christian individuals and churches moved by the gospel of grace.
Of course. Often a church has a connection through a member or a link missionary to a region of the world. Or perhaps you’d like to focus on training church leaders, education, income generation, or another category.
Anglican Aid seeks to work with existing, trusted partners when considering a humanitarian emergency response. Our aid programs are usually delivered by those we’ve partnered with before, perhaps as part of a long-term development project.
We always carefully check that the help we send will be used for its intended purpose. This is why having a trusted partner on the ground is so important.
Anglican Aid focuses its effort in places that the global media and other international organisations sometimes overlook – especially in sub-Saharan Africa. War, conflict, and other atrocities are currently being experienced by millions of people in places where locals have very few resources to help. Situations like these are where Anglican Aid’s emergency resources can have the greatest impact, and where we choose to respond.
All churches will be contacted about how to get involved when we run an emergency appeal. We really can make a difference for our overseas brothers and sisters in times of crisis.
Our priority is always the good of the people we’re helping overseas. It isn’t always feasible to have groups visiting because we’re strategically focusing on the poorest parts of the world, where they may be experiencing food and water shortages, tribal conflict and war. We want to keep your church members safe and not place an extra burden on our project partners or the communities they are serving. However, if this is something your church feels strongly about or would like to discuss further, please start a conversation with us.
We have excellent resources for families and children’s ministries and there are more in the pipeline. Check out our church resources page, or get in touch to find out more.
Not at all. Unless you think it would be useful to help motivate your congregation.
Yes! Churches in the developing world are crying out for theologically trained pastors and ministry leaders. Anglican Aid is deeply committed to strengthening the local churches in places where our overseas project partners serve. We believe this will bring lasting change in those communities.
We are no longer linking sponsors with individual Bible college students but we are still supporting the training of church leaders in developing nations – please contact us to find out how your church can get involved.
Many of our projects are tax deductible. The project pages on our website will indicate if a project is tax deductible or not. If in doubt, please ask.
We’d love to talk to you about what you’d like to raise funds for and share ideas with you. See our website for more information or get in touch.
Yes, for tax-deductible projects and appeals. The easiest way is to set up a web page on our fundraising platform. You can keep track of the total giving, and your church members and their family and friends can receive a tax-deductible receipt.
No, we only run overseas projects. There are other avenues in the Anglican network to support the needs of the poor locally, like Anglicare.
Anglican Aid employs sound development principles and practices, working hard to design and implement programs that build local capacity rather than dependency. We seek to do this in a way that glorifies God as the universal provider, and in mutual partnership with local Christians.
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