Mission Partners
Jesus taught us to love people, and to show this love by caring for one another's physical and spiritual needs. At St Mark's we are pleased that we are able to show Christ's love to others in many ways. We are in partnership with a number of people and groups, who share the good news about Jesus throughout Australia and overseas, and who demonstrate God's love in practical ways while they do this.
We partner with Mike and Karen Roe, who left Adelaide for Namibia in 2016 and have since moved to South Africa to continue their mission, with the support of Church Missionary Society (CMS). They are involved in training and equipping leaders for the Namibian church. For more information about them, or if you would like to receive their monthly prayer updates, please click here.
Since 2014 we have been partnering with Ambassador's Soccer Camps. These non-residential soccer camps are held for four days in the September/October school holidays each year, and are run by professional soccer coaches from Ambassador's Soccer Camps, as well as coaches from around Adelaide. These camps cater for boys and girls, aged 7-12, of all playing abilities. Each day consists of skills training, large games, and team talks, and at the end of the week there are individual skills competitions and a tournament. The camps aim to teach children valuable soccer skills as well as introduce children to who Jesus is and what he did.
Please click here if you would like more information about Ambassador's Soccer Camps or if you'd like to register your child for the next Ambassador's Soccer Camp.
We financially support the work of ABM - the Anglican Board of Mission. ABM works with Anglican churches in other countries to help them meet the spiritual and material needs of people. Each year St Mark's chooses a project to financially and prayerfully support.
We collect clothes, food and toiletries which we pass on to various Anglicare SA ministries. We also financially support their work. Anglicare SA help to meet the needs of many people around South Australia. They run programs in areas such as parenting, youth, foster care, financial literacy, new arrivals, Aboriginal services, disability care emergency assistance, homelessness, and aged care.
The Bush Church Aid Society has a heart for people living in regional and remote parts of Australia. Field Staff of BCA help people around Australia by sharing the gospel, building up local churches, and caring for people. BCA seeks to equip and train local people, to proclaim the good news about Jesus wherever possible, and to support Indigenous ministry. St Mark's are pleased to financially and prayerfully support the ministry done through Bush Church Aid. For more information you can visit their webpage here.
We also support Christmas Bowl. This is a group that aims to forge a loving connection between the Christian community in Australia, and people around the world who are experiencing hardship and suffering. Recent donations made to Christmas Bowl helped provide food for refugees from Burma, medical care for Palestinian families in Gaza, and help for Christians and other groups fleeing persecution in Iraq. Members of St Mark's donate money at Christmas time for this cause.
