In July 2019, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) introduced new external conduct standards, which impact churches running overseas missions programs. Learn more via our ECS Risk Management Summary or FAQs.

This is a draft template for an Overseas Operation Policy. ACC church boards can take it, modify as needed, and use as part of their strategy for managing ECS risk and compliance. 

We unpack why holistic and sustainable development means participating in God’s redemptive plan and Christ’s mission of reconciliation, and what this should look like.

These are the guidelines we abide by to ensure we form great partnerships that operate with legal, financial and ethical integrity.

This toolkit is for people who are helping Christian faith-based actors involved in long-term residential care programs transition from institutional to non-institutional (family and community-based) child welfare programs.

We explore what poverty really is, as well as which methods we should employ to address it.

God has called His Church to be a voice speaking out against injustice and a remedy to the poverty it causes. We are called to live a counter-cultural life marked by justice, mercy, love, generosity, and selflessness. This paper explores our role in all of this.

Information about how volunteers and visitors can best support vulnerable children.

Kinnected is a program run by ACCI Relief that seeks to preserve and strengthen families, and assist children currently living in residential care to achieve their right to be raised in a family. ACCI Relief believes that the family is the best place for the holistic development and care of a child. This booklet describes our aims and methodology.

We explore the importance of the environment and human responsibility for the care of the earth.