Australian Indigenous Ministries

ACCIM, Australian Churches of Christ Indigenous Ministries, located in Perth WA, is in a period of transition and review currently.

If you would like to know more about this important work, please contact Craig Brown, Federal Coordinator for Churches of Christ in Australia, on 03 9488 8800 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For Vic/Tas

At its May 25 2011 meeting Council resolved to invite the Mission & Ministry Board to form an Indigenous Ministries Task Group and to appoint its inaugural members. M&M and the Group will design a Purpose Statement and any necessary lines of accountability and reporting. The roles of the group could include (among other things) facilitating regional and local conversations around the proposed Preamble to the Constitution, history gathering and recording, the creation of a Indigenous resource centre and library, the facilitation and management of Indigenous Ministry Engagements and Church Partnerships via the Kit approved at the AGM, holding periodic Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls and storytelling events, and other areas of ministry and community service, action and justice that M&M consider fits the Group’s purposes.

The Task Group will also, in partnership with M&M, manage the distribution of the income of funds newly set aside in the Church Development Fund for Indigenous ministry. These funds have been released by Council (as flagged in February, and in the Indigenous Ministry Review Report) through the establishment of an Indigenous Ministries Trust within the Church Development Fund. The Trust has been opened with an initial capital sum of $500 000 (around 16% of the proceeds of the sale of the former Ashburton church’s property) and income generated will be available to support Indigenous Ministry. We will be open to receive further donations from churches and individuals, as well as bequests, as contributions to the Trust’s capital.

The M&M Board when considering the membership and the leadership of the new ‘Indigenous Ministries Task Group’, will give a high priority to the participation of Indigenous people, and/or those involved directly in Indigenous Ministry.

Please contact Martin Boutros, Mission & Ministry Executive Director, on 03 9488 8800 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .