Mission Agencies

St Kilda Gatehouse is a not for profit Christian organisation which works alongside those involved in street based sex work or affected by commercial sexual exploitation as a result of hardship. Through providing a place of belonging and engagement Gatehouse helps individuals address issues such as family violence, drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, mental health and social isolation. It is a place where individuals feel valued and important. For many who come from challenging backgrounds it is a source of dignity and hope.

Fresh Theatre for Social Change is a not for profit theatre company primarily focused on achieving social change through the use of applied theatre techniques. Applied Theatre is the use of theatre to accomplish nontheatrical objectives. Fresh uses a range of applied theatre practices to bring about societal development and personal growth in the community, corporate and education sectors.

Ignite is a grassroots, community-based not-for-profit organisation that works with young people from disadvantaged, culturally-diverse and refugee backgrounds in Greater Dandenong. Ignite partners with secondary schools to run after school sports programs, mentoring groups and camps that increase the social connectedness and emotional health of teenagers who’ve experience disadvantage or are from culturally-diverse backgrounds. Ignite trains young adult volunteers to be leaders and positive role models for young people. 

Ignite is also designing a group mentoring program incorporating a contemporary rites of passage to assist young people in their life transitions for other community groups and church’s to run in their community. 

Lifekeys provides resources that equip churches to function more effectively as restoring communities. Lifekeys is a leadership development tool, equipping small group leaders to function effectively in restoration and pastoral care as well as providing courses that allow every church to address issues from sexual abuse and divorce recovery to marriage, parenting, and financial management.

Lifekeys courses are being used across Australia and function in more than 23 countries and multiple languages around the world.

Foothills Community Care is a small, community based organisation that engages faith, community and culture in order to respond to poverty in and around Ferntree Gully and the surrounding foothills area.

Foothills seeks to provide safe places for people to connect and experience positive community interaction, and also provide a place for people to volunteer within the local community. 

Third Place Communities is a non-profit incorporated community organisation based in Hobart, Tasmania. Third Place Communities manages the Risdon Vale Bike Collective which works with local young people to increase work readiness skills, recreational opportunities, and to build healthy community around the pursuit of push bikes. 

UNOH is a missional order affiliated with Churches of Christ (in Australia and Thailand) and the Baptist Union (in NZ).

Since 1993 UNOH workers have chosen to relocate into some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Currently, we have teams in Melbourne, Sydney, Bangkok, and Auckland.
UNOH’s mission is to immerse ourselves in the life of neighbourhoods facing urban poverty, joining the risen Jesus to seek transformation from the bottom up. 

Vetamorphus is a national leadership program for Christian students which focuses on raising up a generation of young leaders to reach beyond the potential they see in themselves into the potential God has prepared for them.

Vetamorphus is part of Vocational Education Training and offers secondary students academic credit towards their Senior Secondary School Certificate through the nationally accredited Certificate III in Christian Ministry & Theology 10432NAT.

Vetamorphus is based on an action/reflection model of learning, giving students the opportunity to not just learn about theology but the chance to put it into practice in their day to day lives.

Vetamorphus partners with local High Schools, Chaplains and Youth Ministries to offer students a unique opportunity to experience a season of transformation that will lay a foundation for their future.

Friends of Dismas is a CCVT church which seeks to bring hope to prisoners and ex-prisoners and their families. Friends of Dismas provides a weekly service and counselling for prisoners and ex-prisoners. If you would like to know more contact pastor Kevin Maddock at dismasfriends@gmail.com.