St Michael’s Surry Hills – Bread of Life

The other Sunday David Mansfield, ABAU’s new director, visited the Bread of Life program where he helped serve breakfast to a number of homeless people. Over coffee and baked beans David had time to talk with the volunteers and those who had come for breakfast and fellowship. In some cases David renewed acquaintances from his time working in the city.

After breakfast a simple service was conducted and David led the Bible discussion for those people who stayed on after the breakfast.

CCDP has been supporting this program for a number of years.

Caring for Community Development Project - St Thomas Anglican Church, Auburn

This project provides community service programs in the Auburn area with the emphasis on the Chinese community. The services include:

1. Group Activities - Playgroup for children and their carers, and special activities for the elderly, women and young members of the migrant communities program;
2. Direct Assistance - to new migrant and people with emergency needs to access to various government services, emergency relief and their families in their orientation to the new local community and facility;
3. Provision of knowledge & language acquisition - through programs such as ESL classes, tuition classes, computing classes, information seminars in a caring environment; and
4. Community Development – through linkages with other Chinese Congregations of the Anglican Church in Hornsby, Marrickville & Cabramatta to develop partnerships & programmes for the Chinese community.

CCDP has been contributing funds to this project for a number of years.