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Cornerstone Anglican Church supports a number of missions including:
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (CMS) – we have recently added CMS to our Monthly Mission Support, Beginnings: CMS (Church Missionary Society) was started 1799 in England by Anglican evangelicals. These included John Newton who wrote Amazing Grace and William Wilberforce. CMS was first set up in Sydney in 1825. They encourage churches and supporters to faithfully participate in global mission through fervent prayer, active engagement, and generous support. They look forward to working with us to see God bring many more people into his kingdom. CMS Worldwide: CMS operates globally providing missionary outreach in Australia, Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, South-east Asia, and The Pacific.
RED FROGS – provides support for Red Frogs’ mission to young people dominated by drugs and alcohol-fueled environments such as Schoolies and provides direct relief from alcohol and drug related issues that are known to cause anxiety, pain, poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability, destitution and helplessness. To find out more about Red Frogs, please go to www.redfrogs.com.au.
BUSH CHUURCH AID (BCA) is one of new Monthly Mission Support Groups. BCA was born out of a vision to provide pastoral and spiritual care for the original inhabitants and new settlers in remote areas of Australia. Beginnings – was officially constituted in 1919, developing from the Colonial and Continental Church Society (CCCS), which began in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia in 1836. BCA Ministries – In the 1920s, hostels for children leaving home for their education. 1930s – BCA’s medical ministries included bush hospitals and clinics and the flying medical service inaugurated in South Australia. The mineral boom in the 1950s and 1960s focused on Diocese of North West Australia, and places such as Coober Pedy and Lightning Ridge. In the 1970s, church planting took place in the remote-urban areas of Darwin. At the same time, BCA provided Diocesan Administrators to the Missionary Dioceses of Australia. The new millennium saw FIFO Mining chaplaincy and growing partnerships with other Christian organisations in areas such as Scripture teaching and drought relief work. In all these ministries, the BCA mission remained central – to bring Australians, regardless of their geographical location, into a relationship with the living God.
ABM – provides support for ABM’s work which is made up of three main program areas – the Church-to-Church Program providing leadership formation and training for overseas churches; Community Development Program providing community driven projects in the Pacific, PNG, Africa, the Middle East and south-East Asia; and the Reconciliation Program providing support for indigenous Christians.
