Engage Missions
Engage, like every church, is called to be on mission for Jesus. At Engage this occurs by individual Christians being on mission in their world and it occurs by the church together being in the support of mission around the world. Funding for our mission endeavours comes from direct donations as well as the church giving 10% of its income to supporting mission activities, both locally and globally. News from our various mission partners is often shared during our Sunday services and through Engage’s social media.
Engage Has a Number Of Global Mission Partners.
Live Connection
Live Connection was birthed in 2000 and now operates in 11 countries. It provides Bible training and financial support to Christian leaders, and their families, empowering them to effectively run their churches and impact their communities. Currently we support three pastors in South Africa, Malawi and South Sudan.
Wakisa Ministries
Wakisa Ministries in Uganda was born out of Mrs. Vivian Kityo’s vision and passion for teenage girls with unwanted pregnancies and has grown to care for up to 30 girls who are traumatized, confused and rejected. Wakisa Ministries was formed in August 2005 by the Mighty Hand of God. Wakisa purpose is to the promotion of dignity and self-esteem of young girls in Uganda with crisis pregnancy, while addressing their emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. This is achieved by providing temporary shelter, counselling and care services, providing opportunities for Christian growth and discipleship and equipping the girls with life and vocational skills, thus transforming the lives of this vulnerable group.
Empart
Working in South Asia, their ONE goal is to see 100,000 communities transformed in spirit and in truth by 2030. Empart trains and equip men and women to be servant leaders in their communities. They send them out to bring about transformation – breaking the poverty cycle, reaching, restoring and releasing hope through special programs aimed at nurturing children, empo
The Good News Team
The Good News Team produces a children’s evangelistic booklet every year that is distributed to thousands of school children across Thailand. The emphasis has always been to bring a clear Gospel message in each booklet. Up to 200,000 copies are printed and distributed each year. The Team visits Thai state schools where they are able to present the Gospel to the whole school. After these programmes, each child is given a copy of one of these booklets. The Team also sends packets of these booklets to school libraries throughout Thailand. Up to 10% of children who receive a booklet then write for more information about Jesus. On average five to ten children, and their families, will read each booklet.
Compassion
Compassion is a Christian international holistic child development organisation. Through their Child Sponsorship Program, more than 2 million children are currently being released from poverty in Jesus’ name. With over six decades of experience, Compassion’s unique approach to solving poverty works. Currently Engage sponsors three children in Thailand and one from Rwanda. Read the latest letter from our Compassion sponsor children here.
Engage Has a Number Of Local Mission Partners.
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is a hands-on way for us to bless children in need across the world by filling shoeboxes with toys, hygiene items, school supplies, and fun gifts. We drop off the boxes and OCC distribute them in the name of Jesus Christ, to children living in vulnerable situations. Engage usually fills around 100 shoeboxes for children in Oct/Nov each year, as a Christmas present and an example of God’s love for them. Teams of Engage people also go to the OCC warehouse in Sydney’s west to help prepare the boxes for shipment.
Kairos Prison Ministry Australia
Kairos Prison Ministry Australia is an interdenominational Christian ministry reaching out to incarcerated individuals, their families and those who work with them; to bring sustainable meaning and hope in the place of loneliness, isolation and despair. Kairos woorks with both those “inside” prison, including juveniles, and those family members “outside”. A number of people from Engage serve as part of the various Kairos teams.