Campsie Anglican Church - The Campsie New Settler Project

The aim of this project at St John's the Evangelist at Campsie is to coordinate the migrant support efforts that the church is currently engaged in (ESL classes, migrant support, and outreach into the community). The project seeks to expand and refine those efforts and consequently to strengthen the strategic cross-cultural ministry that this church must focus upon for its future. This future will be that of an international church placed within a multicultural environment.

CCDP has been contributing to this project for many years.

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.

Winter Appeal 2009

Your gifts to the Archbishop’s Winter Appeal enable parishes in the Diocese to show the love of Jesus by impacting on the lives of people in desperate situations.

There are currently 16 projects being funded by the CCDP in partnership with local parishes in places like Redfern on the edge of the city, Macquarie Fields in suburban Sydney and Nowra in regional NSW.

One example of the type of help your financial support makes possible is the Break The Cycle No Interest Loans Scheme (BTCNILS) run by the Glenquarie Anglican Parish in the south-western suburbs of Macquarie Fields and Glenfield.

The BTCNILS program began after it was realised that many people in the community were unable to access affordable credit for basic white goods and other necessities.

By enabling people to purchase essential goods, BTCNILS contributes to their self-esteem and quality of life.

Goods are also purchased from local businesses thus strengthening the ties between the local parish, BTCNILS and the community.

Your donation is vital. Without support these programs cannot continue. With the monies raised through the Archbishop’s Winter Appeal we can continue to support parishes to demonstrate Jesus’ love in their community.

To donate please phone 1800 653 903 or on line at http://www.abau.org.au/

New Director Appointed

The Rev David Mansfield has been appointed as the new director. Starting May 11, David says heading up the Unit takes his passion for evangelism to a new level.

"My role is to lift the profile of the Archbishop's Appeals Unit so that the Diocese can see the Archbishop's priories to stand alongside our brothers and sisters in the development world and in Sydney as they seek to reach their neighbours and communities for Christ." Mr Mansfield was an itinerant evangelist and director of the diocesan Department of Evangelism for 11 years and then was rector of York Street.

Claymore and Macquarie Fields: Legal Counselling and Referral Centres

Claymore and Macquarie Fields are listed as some of the poorest postcode areas in Sydney, and there is a high level of financial stress currently being experienced. The Coordinator of Legal Counselling and Referral Centres, Prue Gregory is assisted by solicitors from Minter Ellison, Marsdens and Fosters who volunteer at the centres. The work includes court appearances, representations to government agencies, legal advice and providing referrals to other agencies. The work is partly funded through CCDP.

St John’s Darlinghurst - Rough Edges Community Assistance and Partnership Program (CAPP)

CCDP has been funding CAPP for a number of years. The program funds a support team for people of the Darlinghurst/Kings Cross community as they work toward solutions to the stresses of their lives.

The team works towards the aim by:

• providing a place of welcome and safety in the Rough Edges Community Centre during the daytime opening hours
• sharing and listening to peoples’ stories in a respectful and non-judgmental way
• noticing people’s gifts, resources and strengths and helping them, whenever possible, to better recognize these themselves
• offering general counselling
• through “Emergency to Sustainability Counselling,” working with people to help them identify their own solutions and move towards these
• responding to the community’s expressed needs by:
  - referring to other St John’s services, to Anglicare Emergency Relief which will soon be situated at St John’s and to other external agencies;
  - administering the resources available to us in such a way as to reduce the pressure for those who are experiencing immediate financial and material need; and
  - facilitating projects identified by the community to be of benefit for the community.
• receiving from all members of the community their contributions to the program with acknowledgment and gratitude.

It is our hope and prayer that as the Holy Spirit empowers us to follow the example of Jesus, our clients will themselves begin to know him better and choose to enter into relationship with him themselves.